Marianne Solivan Breaks Over Solivan/Williams/McCune/Sawyer

Imani Records Release date: Jan 17th 2025

Track order 1. Open The Door – Music & Lyric by Betty Carter 2. Drifting Through this Maze (Zingaro) – Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lyric by Marianne Solivan 3. Look No Further – Music & Lyric by Richard Rogers 4. Moonlight To You – Music by Marilyn Simpson, Lyric by Nancy King 5. First Desire – Music by Marianne Solivan, Lyric by Federico Garcia Lorca 6. Spark – Music & Lyric by Marianne Solivan 7. We Must Love (Little Niles) – Music by Randy Weston, Lyric by Marianne Solivan 8. The Other Half Of Me – Music & Lyric by Jack Lawrence & Stan Freeman

Musicians - • Marianne Solivan – voice (all tracks) • Brandon McCune – piano (all tracks) • Buster Williams – bass (tracks 1,2,3, 5,6,7,8) • Jay Sawyer – drums (tracks 1,2,3, 5,6,7,8)

Engineers – • Engineer – Michael Perez Cisneros at Big Orange Sheep • Mixing and Mastering engineer – Katsuhiko Naito • Producer – Marianne Solivan

Re-Entry, Solivan’s 5th album as a leader, immediately brings you into her world. With a voice that is powerful, warm, strong & supple, with the perfect touch of seduction, and the ability to weave a story so well you get lost in it.
Marianne’s gift is delivering the lyric to you like a delicious morsel. Whether it be the intensity of Wheelers & Dealers or the ethereal flow of Time Remembered, she is fully immersed in the words and music and delivers it to the listener as if they were old friends.
In this disc you find a singer who has come into her own. After years of performing and recording with NYC’s top instrumentalists, leading her own big band, and being the voice on numerous original music projects, she has landed on a repertoire that is uniquely her own. Leaning on her Puerto Rican roots in Tal Vez and Debí Llorar and her love of Jazz tradition on If You Could Love Me and I Burn For You (Fire Waltz), (for which she penned the lyric), Solivan is squarely in her own lane here.
Alongside a band that has clearly put in the hours playing together, you hear a sound that is focused with arrangements that allow Solivan to be nimble yet always supported. Together creating a sound that is tight, balanced and full of energy.
With her first two records having received high critical acclaim in both Downbeat & JazzTimes, we are sure Re-Entry will be recognized as a record to watch rise