NEW ALBUM "With A Twist" comes out MAY 19TH Pre-order today on AMAZON MUSIC

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Well, it didn't take me long to get back into the world of "LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I TRY THIS...." :) I'm happy to share with you FIRST this Jazz Times track premiere off my upcoming album which I believe to be the most ambitious yet. See below for tour dates supporting this release including an 11 piece band June 2nd at the Highline Ballroom as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival in NYC. What might that sound like? Have a listen: Alright, Okay, You Win

https://jazztimes.com/departments/songpreviews/jt-track-premiere-bria-skonbergs-alright-ok-you-win/

On May 19, OKeh/Sony Masterworks will release With a Twist, a new album by trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg. Accompanied by Sullivan Fortner on piano, Gil Goldstein on keyboards and accordion (who arranged six of the tracks), Scott Colley on bass and Matt Wilson on drums, Skonberg takes inspiration from the music of Esquivel! and Pérez Prado, ’50s and ’60s cocktail culture and the vocalists who have influenced her including Nina Simone, Peggy Lee and Björk. The 13-track set includes ’20s and ’30s numbers (“High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm,” “Cocktails for Two,” “Back in Your Own Back Yard,” “My Baby Just Cares for Me”); midcentury pieces (“Alright, Okay, You Win,” “It’s Oh So Quiet” (as covered by Björk), “Whatever Lola Wants,” “Sway”); Leonard Cohen’s modern classic “Dance Me to the End of Love” and an instrumental version of Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud.” Three original compositions by Skonberg (“Same Kind of Crazy,” “How I Know,” “Time to Go”) round out the album. About her take on “Alright, Okay, You Win,” a mashup version that includes elements of Quincy Jones’ “Soul Bossa Nova,” Skonberg says: “It is one of the first songs I ever sang with a big band, inspired by Peggy Lee. I love how it’s both flirty and assertive and this mashup version gives it an instigative edge.” JazzTimes is proud to premiere “Alright, Okay, You Win” by Bria Skonberg.