debut album
Because He Was a Weasel
Songs for Courage, Comfort, and Fun
A multi-genre, multi-generational cast performs an album of original songs by Eleanor Aversa (composition professor, Berklee College of Music). Singers are Jillian Aversa (soloist with the Baltimore, National, and San Diego Symphonies), Dan Callaway (title role in the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway), Josephine Kraemer (Elle Woods, Pacific Opera Theater), Shradha Ganesh (2023 Vidya Bharati Canada Young Artist Award), and Nadia Washington (Jazz at Lincoln Center). Additional vocals are by Boston-area soloists Anney Barrett, Craig Juricka, and Nmesoma Ogbuani, as well as the Vox Futura studio choir on “Sun in the Moon.”
Instrumentalists are pianist Amy Bellamy (Jazz at Lincoln Center), drummer Lee Fish (Berklee Global Jazz Institute), guitarist Andres Guerra (scholarship from the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation), clarinetist Bill Kirkley and cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws (both Boston Musica Viva), bassist John Lockwood (performances with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz), and percussionist Matt Sharrock (Innova, Navona, New Focus Recordings).
Acoustic arrangements are by Eleanor Aversa; electronic arrangements are by Andrew Aversa (Game Audio Network Guild award winner).
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