For those unaware, Outside in Music is proud to announce the March 17th, 2023 release of Beautiful Tomorrow, the sophomore recording from vocalist and trombonist Hailey Brinnel.

When asked to define her style, the Philadelphia-based artist, whose sound is steeped in swing and bebop, describes her effort to move the genre into new spaces: I like pushing the limits of the idiom, while staying true to jazz.

Alongside her entrusted quartet with Joe Plowman on bass, Dan Monaghan on drums and Silas Irvine on piano, Brinnel presents her extraordinary comprehension of vintage material throughout this new enterprise, offering two original compositions and eight arranged standards. Special guest trumpeters Terell Stafford and Andrew Carson join the date as well as saxophonist Chris Oatts.

1. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
2. I Might Be Evil
3. The Sound
4. Walk Between Raindrops
5. Tea for Two
6. Wayfaring Stranger
7. A Cottage for Sale
8. There Will Never Be
9. I Want to Be Happy
10. Candy

This splediferous new recording opens with an upbeat, and joyously embraced reimagination of the Sherman Brothers classic There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow and then we get two originals back-to-back in the form of the low slung I Might Be Evil and the hard-driving swing of The Sound, and they are followed by the finger-snapping, foot-tapping, re-imagined Walk Between Raindrops (a 1982 cut from Donald Fagen’s brilliant The Nightfly) and the frenetically-studious standard Tea for Two (featuring guest trumpeter Terell Stafford).

Along next on this most joyous of musical experiences is another standard in the shape of a drum-led, veritably permeable, re-imagined I Want To Be Happy, which both the former and latter tracks were written for the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette, and that is in turn backed seamlessly by Hailey’s take at another traditional tune, the sumptuous Wayfaring Stranger, then we get the leisurely, aching yearn of a ballad within A Cottage for Sale, the album rounding out on the resplendent There Will Never Be, closing on the upright bass-veined Candy; inclusive of a rather sweet, albeit brief vocal/bass duet.

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