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6 Degrees Entertainment

Title - Players [2CD]
Artist - Eugenie Jones

Eugenie Jones grew up with four sisters and three brothers in rural West Virginia. Her father, Eugene, directed the local Friendship Baptist Church Choir, and her mother, Tommie Lee, was the choir’s lead soprano and a frequent guest soloist at neighboring churches.

Jones grew up listening to and influenced by her mother’s perpetually singing around the house as well as her older siblings’ Motown albums and her parents’ Nancy Wilson and Ray Charles LPs.

But in those early years, she had no latent desire to become a singer. Jones grew up, earned an MBA, married, and eventually made her home in Seattle, raising two sons and working in nonprofit marketing and communications.

Her singing career began later in life after the death of her mother in 2008. At one stage of my grief, I realized that beyond the sorrow of losing my mother, I also missed hearing the sound of her singing, Eugenie admits. Seeking solace and a positive way forward, I wondered if I could carry on that part of her.,p> That speculation led Jones to the Seattle jazz scene and ultimately to the pursuit of something she had never imagined - a singing career.

Her wood-shedding with local Seattle bands paid off with the release of her 2013 debut CD, Black Lace Blue Tears. The CD was the first-ever vocal release to win the coveted Earshot Jazz NW Recording of the Year award.

On the strength of her 2015 follow-up, Come Out Swingin’, Jones ranked in Jazz Week’s top 50 and won the title of NW Vocalist of the Year from Earshot. The CD was lauded in Jazziz magazine for her smoke-and-satin vocals in settings that float like a butterfly and swing like a night at the Savoy.

And now 4 years, 4 cities, and 32 musicians coalesce to create Jones’ 2022 recording, Players. This two-disc, 15-track recording with ten originals and five reimagined classics was independently produced and recorded on Jones’ Open Mic Records label.

CD 1:
1. I Got Rhythm
2. There Are Thorns
3. Multicolored Blue
4. Ultimo Baile En Casa
5. You Can Have Him
6. Skipping Under Starlight
7. The Gift of Life
8. Ey Brother

This beautifully-crafted and genuinely heartfelt new album opens on the gently frenetic I Got Rhythm and the Latin-imbued hipsway of There Are Thorns and those are seamlessly backed by the aching percussional yearn within Multicolored Blue, the Latin caliente flare of Ultimo Baile En Casa, the soft and sultry balladry of You Can Have Him, and then come the beautifully crafted Skipping Under Starlight, the veritably dulcet The Gift of Life, the first disc closing on the funky R&B of Ey Brother.

CD 2:
9. Sittin’ at the Bar
10. Blues Skies
11. Red Dress
12. But I Do
13. As Long As
14. One More Night to Burn
15. Do I Move You?

The second disc, also featuring recordings from New York, Dallas, Chicago and Seattle, first brings us the silky smooth Sittin’ at the Bar and the robust rhythms within Blues Skies and follows those up with the late night, underground, smokey jazz club appeal of Red Dress, the low key, funky ’70s-esque vibe within But I Do, the smooth R&B jazz slide of As Long As, the recording rounding out on the lonesome yearn of One More Night to Burn, coming to a close on the old school, laid back, soulful blues jazz of Do I Move You?

In addition to her recording/performing career, Jones established a nonprofit, Music for a Cause, and serves as the executive producer of free community jazz walks and concerts that commemorate the legacy of African American music in Seattle while simultaneously raising money for community service organizations such as The Central Area Senior Center’s meal delivery program, Northwest Harvest food bank, and the Rotary Boys & Girls Club.

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