Accidental Melody

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Joanie Pallatto - Accidental Melody featuring Fareed Haque. © 2023 Southport Records S-SSD 0154. ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC FROM SINGER-SONGWRITER JOANIE PALLATTO. "Joanie Pallatto can melt your heart down to a puddle." Achy Obejas, Writer, Author, Poet (from liner notes). Produced by Fareed Haque and Joanie Pallatto. Accidental Melody from Singer-Songwriter Joanie Pallatto featuring modern guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque, with thirteen new songs from Joanie Pallatto- it's as if you were sitting in the club with the band. Virtuoso guitarist and co-producer Fareed Haque returns! The recording features an acoustic ensemble, with percussionist Eric Hines, Juan Pastor on cajon and percussion, the acoustic bass of John Christensen and pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow. Our long time friend, writer, author and poet Achy Obejas contributed liner notes. Rounding out the "team" is graphic design from Al Brandtner, and engineer Todd A. Carter on the controls. Joanie Pallatto, Singer/Songwriter - Passion-Performance-Production: Described by Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune as having "a stirring and special voice," Joanie Pallatto has a history of 43 years as one of Chicago's leading studio voices, an independent artist with 17 albums as a leader/co-leader, and Southport Records co-chair responsible for 100's of recordings of otherwise little-documented local musical artists (Willie Pickens, Von Freeman, George Freeman, King Fleming, Bobby Lewis, Fred Anderson.) Project Producers: Joanie Pallatto & Bradley Parker-Sparrow. Liner Notes: Achy Obejas, Writer, Author, Poet. Graphic Design: Al Brandtner. Recorded at Sparrow Sound Design Recording Studio, Chicago Illinois. Southport Records - Real Jazz Made In Chicago.

REVIEW
Guitar Legend George Freeman: "It's more than a jazz record. It's just right. Joanie, your voice is simply wonderful. You're a great storyteller. What's on your mind? The guitar player is fantastic. You and Sparrow sound so good together. I enjoyed all of it!" --From Guitar Legend George Freeman

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Joanie Pallatto: Passion-Performance-Production. Described by Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune as having "a stirring and special voice," Singer/Songwriter Joanie Pallatto has a history of 43 years as one of Chicago's leading studio voices, an independent artist with 17 albums as a leader/co-leader, and Southport Records co-chair responsible for 100's of recordings of otherwise little-documented local musical artists (Willie Pickens, Von Freeman, George Freeman, King Fleming, Bobby Lewis, Fred Anderson.) Joanie Pallatto is a graduate of The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM.) Pallatto toured with The Glenn Miller Orchestra as a featured vocalist before moving to Chicago in 1979. Co-owner and partner with pianist/composer and husband, Bradley Parker-Sparrow at Sparrow Sound Design Recording Studio and Southport Records, Pallatto has expertise in all aspects of musical production. As a studio singer and voiceover talent, she has recorded on hundreds of Radio and TV commercials, including McDonald's, United Airlines and Hamburger Helper. As a jazz vocalist, Pallatto has performed at Chicago clubs, including City Winery, The Green Mill, Venus Cabaret Theater, Andy's and New York venues Iridium Jazz Club, Pangea and Birdland. Concert engagements have included Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, The Old Town School of Folk Music, Park West, Stage 773 and Bailiwick Theater; she was also a featured soloist with Daniel Barenboim in "Ellington Among Friends" at Symphony Center in 1999. Awards include: Lifetime Achievement Award for Extra-Ordinary Contributions to the Music Industry, Chicago Music Awards (2021); The Coleman Award in Music Business Entrepreneurship from Elmhurst College (2018) and the Jazz Journalist Association Chicago Jazz Heroes Award, to Joanie Pallatto & Sparrow (2016.) 2023 New CD Release: A new release, dropping May 19, 2023 is Joanie Pallatto - Accidental Melody, featuring Fareed Haque on Southport Records. (© SOUTHPORT 2023 S-SSD 0154) "Joanie Pallatto can melt your heart down to a puddle." -Achy Obejas, writer, author, poet (from liner notes) With thirteen new songs from Singer-Songwriter Joanie Pallatto- it's as if you were sitting in the club with the band. Virtuoso guitarist and co-producer Fareed Haque returns! The recording features an acoustic ensemble, with percussionist Eric Hines, Juan Pastor on cajon and percussion, the acoustic bass of John Christensen and pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow. Joanie Pallatto My Original Plan (© SOUTHPORT 2021 S-SSD 0152) featuring modern guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque, showcases Singer-Songwriter Pallatto's fourteen original Jazzy-Pop songs! Produced by Fareed Haque and Joanie Pallatto. "Listen closely and find out how to dream and how to use those dreams. With Joanie, the personal becomes universal." -Stephen Cole, Award Winning Musical Theatre Writer (from liner notes) "Heads up for a singer-songwriter whose new album addresses an adult's issues and insights. 'My Original Plan' -it's a Gem!" -Howard Mandel, journalist, author and jazz critic October 2021, "Joanie Pallatto's My Original Plan" was presented at New York's East Village haunt, Pangea to rave reviews: ".witness the Martha Graham of jazz reinventing the genre. THIS is cabaret." "It was one of the most exciting, odd, life-affirming, and eye-catching shows ever, indeed, it was exactly what cabaret should be." Stephen Mosher, BroadwayWorld.com In 2011, Joanie Pallatto released the critically-acclaimed CD As You Spend Your Life (© SOUTHPORT 2011 S-SSD 0133). A very special guest is Jazz Legend Bob Dorough on Frank Foster's "Simone," with new lyrics written by Pallatto. It's Not Easy is Pallatto's first CD of original tunes (© SOUTHPORT 2008 S-SSD 0124) with Fareed Haque, Howard Levy, Alejo Poveda and Sparrow.

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