Live From Emmet's Place Vol. 120 - Ekep Nkwelle & Caity Gyorgy

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Emmet Cohen - Piano
Ekep Nkwelle - Vocals
Caity Gyorgy - Vocals
Yasushi Nakamura - Bass
Kyle Poole - Drums

** Vuyo Sotashe - Vocals (Skylark)
Caelan Cardello - Piano (Blues)
Ahmad Johnson - Drums (Blues)

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0:00 Emmet Cohen Introduces the Musicians: Kyle Poole, drums; Yasushi Nakamura, bass; Caity Gyorgy, vocals // (opening by Marisa Tomei; vocalist Ekep Nkwelle appears later in set)
0:51 Nobody Else But Me (Jerome Kern; lyr. O. Hammerstein II) - ft. Caity Gyorgy, vocals
7:09 Caity Gyorgy Greets the Emmet’s Place Audience
7:47 Too Darn Hot (Cole Porter) - ft. Caity Gyorgy, vocals
14:07 On The Street Where You Live (Frederick Loewe; lyr. Alan J. Lerner) - ft. Caity Gyorgy, vocals
24:23 Caity Gyorgy Introduces a Frank Loesser classic
24:47 Say It (Over and Over Again) (Jimmy McHugh; lyr. Frank Loesser)
30:12 Caity Digs an Anita O’Day Tune (from Live at Mister Kelly’s)
30:52 Everytime I’m With You (Jeff Wasserman, Grant) - ft. Caity Gyorgy, vocals
38:47 Nice ‘n’ Easy (Lew Spence, Alan & Marilyn Bergman) - ft. Caity Gyorgy, vocals
46:29 Thou Swell (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart) - ft. Caity Gyorgy, vocals
54:36 Emmet Introduces Vocalist Ekep Nkwelle to the Living Room Stage
56:00 Ekep Introduces Ma Rainey’s ‘See See Rider’
57:04 See See Rider (C.C. Rider) (Gertrude “Ma” Rainey) - ft. Ekep Nkwelle, vocals
1:04:19 Ekep Introduces Shining Hour & speaks of the brilliance & soulful swing of vocal legend Ernestine Anderson
1:05:39 My Shining Hour (Harold Arlen; lyr. Johnny Mercer) - ft. Ekep Nkwelle, vocals
1:12:29 Ekep Reflects on a Duke Ellington masterpiece & her early performing arts education
1:13:18 In A Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington) - ft. Ekep Nkwelle, vocals
1:21:44 Ego (Betty Carter, Randy Weston) - ft. Ekep Nkwelle, vocals
1:27:21 Ekep’s Praise of the matchless Betty Carter for establishing a path for women of all diversities
1:30:31 Presentation of George Shearing’s arrg’t of Good Morning Heartache
1:31:09 Good Morning Heartache (Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher) arrg. G. Shearing - ft. Ekep Nkwelle, vocals
1:37:10 Vocalist Vuyo Sotashe joins the living room stage
1:38:09 Skylark (Hoagy Carmichael) - ft. Ekep Nkwelle & Vuyo Sotashe, vocals
1:45:29 Gratitude for Sponsorship by Open Studio // presenting Emmet’s new course: ‘Jazz Piano Inside & Out’
1:47:07 I Love Being Here With You (Peggy Lee, B. Schluger) - blues shuffle send-off