REBECCA SANBORN: Ballads & Namesakes

Rebecca Sanborn

Ballads & Namesakes

© 2005 Rebecca Sanborn (678277114029)

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Piano trio colored by french horn, flugel horn, bass clarinet, and strings. Rebecca's vocals and impressionistic lyrics imbue a cinematic feeling to this album.

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Biography

Rebecca Sanborn was fortunate enough to grow up in a home with a piano. At the age of 5 she began taking private lessons and thus began her double life in music. Throughout the ensuing years one hand prepared for her lessons and the other strayed from her classical practice to improvise and compose. Being active in dance and theatre as well as music, she chose to continue her studies at The College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. There she expanded her musical outlet by composing scores for a stylistically diverse range of student films including, Science Fiction, Horror, and a documentary on early on-set Alzheimer’s. While studying dance in New Mexico, Rebecca also had the opportunity to work closely with Juanita Barry, long time personal demonstrator for 20th century arts icon and dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre, she returned to her hometown of Portland Oregon to pursue music and performance. In Portland, Rebecca met local jazz drummer Ji Tanzer and the two formed a personal and musical alliance. They have since performed Rebecca’s music at both festivals and concerts throughout the Northwest.

Ballads & Namesakes

This record documents five years and 6 months of the creative process! In August of 2000 Rebecca and Ji recorded 3 songs at legendary jazz pianist Randy Porter’s Heavywood studios. In demo version, they released these 3 songs as an EP entitled Gratitude. Shortly after completing Gratitude Rebecca began to have an artistic vision for her full-length album and once again called upon Randy to help arrange some of her songs. Around five years later--horrible jobs, lost loved ones, carefully selected musicians, gained loved ones, and nearly every ounce of money they had--the sonic vision was complete. What they had finished was Ballads & Namesakes, a unique blend of jazz, classical, and folk in a grand scale production of horns, strings, voice, and rhythm section played by:

Rebecca Sanborn : piano & voice
Ji Tanzer : drumset
Dave Captein : upright bass
Bill Stalnaker : french horn
Dick Titterington : flugel horn
Tim Jensen : bass clarinet
Megan Moran : violin
Annie Harkey : cello
John Witalla : bass

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  • author: Annette

    Rebecca's singing is magical. I especially loved the interplay between her ethereal voice and the haunting tune on the cello on track 12. If I were to have one criticism it would be that sometimes the piano seems a little heavy in competition with her beautiful voice. Overall, it is a lovely album, magical in some undefinable but unforgettable way.

  • author: Brad McEntire of dribblefunk.com

    Becca Sanborn's "ballads & namesakes" is just beautiful. Smooth and haunting. Becca's singing is hypnotic and real. Track 8, "Deepening The Grey" stuck with me for days after I listened to it the first time...

  • bliss.
    author: Storiestold

    This entire disc is a sublime journey through Rebecca's enchanting and often cinematic musical world. A aural pleasure from ear through smile to ear.

  • Beautiful evocation of what it means to live with an open heart
    author: Modigliani

    Becca Sanborn's album Ballads & Namesakes reminds me of Bach's Cello Suite #1; she encapsulates the ecstatics of joy and heights of despair in a mere five minutes of song. Her music reminds me of old sicilian saying: "we know how to celebrate and we know to mourn and we know how to do both at the same time." In short,these songs are sublime.

  • author: Naomi Riccobono

    Rebecca not only creates breath taking music, but she takes you on a journey that you never want to end. She is unique in style as well as unique in heart. This album will leave you singing in the streets and smiling at your neighbors.

  • Amazing!
    author: Future Platinum Audio

    This album is absolutely amazing, brilliant, and beautiful! Undefinable in genre, these compositions are classical examples of the true artistry of sound. Every song is an epic listen.

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