Title - Jazz Is My Lifestyle
Artist - Gunhild Carling Big Band
For those not in the know, Swedish musical sensation Gunhild Carling competed as a celebrity dancer in Let’s Dance 2014 on TV4, placing third, and was also on Sweden’s Dancing with The Stars and even performed for Sweden’s Got Talent in 2017 and on America’s Got Talent season 2019.
She also performed with her Carling Big Band at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in the celebration for King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Ruby Jubilee. Between Touring with her own band, she performs in several configurations from solo to orchestra to symphony and as a featured singer and multi-instrumentalist in several of Postmodern Jukebox’s songs, including a 1920’s jazz swing version of Material Girl, and a 1920s hot jazz cover of ABBA’s Dancing Queen.
Gunhild Carling keeps serenading audiences in the US and all around the world today, has over 3 million views from social media earning her a silver award from You Tube, and has just released her brand new album, Jazz Is My Lifetyle (which includes her Big Band with Strings and some special guests.
1. Jazz is My Lifestyle
2. Shaking the Bangkok
3. I Desire You
4. Your Smile Makes the Difference
5. Fire Alarm
6. Chanson
7. Mardi Gras Blues
8. Cosmic Drive
9. Winters Day
10. You Are the Music
11. I’ll Wait In San Francisco
This wholly gratifying new recording, opens on the New Orleans-styled title track Jazz is My Lifestyle and then brings us the vibrant Shaking the Bangkok, the languishing I Desire You, and then come both the joyful finger-snapper Your Smile Makes the Difference and the frenetically-charged Fire Alarm.
Along next is the low slung Chanson and the buoyantly free flowing, harmonica-imbibed Mardi Gras Blues, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the engaging balladry of Cosmic Drive, the sumptuous Winters Day, the recording rounding out on a sanguine You Are the Music, coming to a close on the impassioned, veritably showstopping I’ll Wait In San Francisco.
Whether she’s singing favorite jazz standards, playing one of her many instruments (trumpet, trombone, harmonica, oboe, harp, flute, recorder, or jazz bagpipe!), or juggling and tap dancing, Gunhild’s sublime showmanship shines.
Part musical extravaganza/part Vaudevillian spectacle, Carling’s live performances are guaranteed to be some of the most feel-good, toe-tapping, exhilarating shows of the year!
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