Alexis Cole - A Kiss In The Dark (One Step) / Evolution Music

After eight albums for various labels, New York-born musician Alexis Cole finally joined Chesky Records in 2014 to record “A Kiss In The Dark.” Recorded with just a single high-resolution microphone, her Chesky debut also features

Alexis Cole's superb collaborators: guitarist Saul Rubin, saxophonist and clarinetist Dan Block, bassist Pat O'Leary and drummer Phil Stewart. On “A Kiss In The Dark,” the band performs live, allowing the singer to delve deep into jazz

history with her velvety voice, adding a contemporary touch to the song repertoire from the late 1910s and early 1920s. Her seductively deep voice, which embraces these timeless melodies from the salon song era and Tin Pan Alley days,

rightly draws comparisons to vocal divas such as Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day. Alexis Cole won third place at the Shure Montreux Jazz Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2003 and 2005. In 2007, she was the winner of the

Jazzmobile Vocal Contest in New York City. She also received a Swing Journal Gold Disk Award.

Swingers like “Chicago, That Toddlin' Town,” moving blues songs like “Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out,” or dreamy ballads like “Indian Summer” show why Alexis Cole, with her golden voice, is one of America's best jazz singers.

The recording is part of Chesky Records' “Binaural+ Series,” which, thanks to groundbreaking recording technology, is characterized by greater realism and transports listeners into the recording room. We are delighted to present this special gem

in the Chesky discography as a new LP edition – for the first time using the superior One-Step process, pressed on 180-gram vinyl (33 RPM)!

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Side A

1.    Ain't We Got Fun
2.    Whip-Poor-Will
3.    Do You Ever Think Of Me?
4.    Limehouse Blues
5.    Chicago, That Toddlin' Town

Side B

1.    Bimini Bay
2.    Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
3.    A Kiss In The Dark
4.    Indian Summer
5.    Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday
6.    Let The Rest Of The World Go By