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Featured on the Putumayo collection "Women of Jazz."
Originally released on October 28th, 2008.

From the liner notes:

Kate Paradise is part of a new generation of jazz musicians who benefit from jazz education programs at colleges and universities. She earned a graduate degree from the University of Miami and currently teaches music at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her debut album even contains a live recording from her master’s degree recital.

Formal schooling helped solidify her love of classic jazz standards. “What I sing are mostly songs from the great American songbook,” she says. “And when I perform, I’m often teased that I’m too young to sing such old songs. But to me, these are just the best songs ever written.”

A case in point is “Mean to Me,” written in 1929 and recorded by scores of jazz singers since then. This version features a very simple and elegant accompaniment, a jazz-quartet setting with a swinging piano solo that immediately leads to the singer breaking out in a scat-singing solo of her own before returning to the tune’s clever, bluesy lyrics.