{"title":"Alex Pangman","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlex Pangman is a Canadian jazz singer based in Toronto and is a specialist in the popular singing of the Great American Songbook.  Although she grew up a couple of generations late to have sung with Teddy Wilson, the vibrant young vocalist is proud to be known as Canada's Sweetheart of Swing. With pipes aplenty, multiple Juno nominee Pangman possesses the requisite taste, talent and the historical knowledge of an avid record collector to breathe new life into the sturdy standards of the classic jazz era.  She sings in a style made popular by early jazz vocalists Connie Boswell and Kay Starr and has collaborated and recorded with Bucky Pizzarelli, Ron Sexsmith, Dick Sudhalter, Don Kerr, Jeff Healey, Terra Hazelton, and members of the New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA compelling talent, Alex Pangman's voice can be regarded as even more impressive, knowing she received a double lung transplant several years ago. The smoke-filled venues where Pangman often frequented finally caught up to the singer, who was battling lung disease at the time. She had a successful double lung transplant in November 2008.  After the surgery, she began to draw attention to the subject of organ and tissue donation in Canada. In the summer of 2013 while experiencing organ rejection, Pangman opened for Willie Nelson at Toronto's Massey Hall shortly before receiving her second double lung transplant in August 2013. By March 2014 she was recording music again – and by the time you finish reading this, she'll already be hard at work on her next musical adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alexpangman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-globe fa-3x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexpangman\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-facebook-square fa-3x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexPangman\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-twitter-square fa-3x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexpangman\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-instagram fa-3x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCN-yDGq_uQUWmz3Tfn_R1Rg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-youtube-play fa-3x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"33-1","title":"33","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Alex's own words, \"as a longtime devotee of music from the classic genre I find something of a kinship with the music that buoyed nations through the \"dirty thirties\"... The initial concept of this record was to honor that kind of spirit with songs popular in 1933, recorded while I was 33.\"  Along with her longtime band the 'Alleycats' - the music is presented with all the love, fun and respect it deserves.  The late, great Jeff Healey (who produced her first two recordings) called Alex \"the greatest current exponent of the classic American Song.\"  Pangman makes music of the past captivatingly present with her persuasive and infectious charm.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Alex Pangman","offers":[{"title":"Digital Download","offer_id":39443783385248,"sku":"0068944856954","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":39443829031072,"sku":"068944856923","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8477\/2768\/products\/90d7f78f-9408-4247-abf1-1f910fac1f6c15148055291235254551-LARGE_13d3e5cb-f494-4a7b-8d7a-55a50d500a65.jpg?v=1615490748"},{"product_id":"alex-pangman-s-hot-three","title":"Alex Pangman’s Hot Three","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eToronto’s Alex Pangman will release her latest album ‘Alex Pangman’s Hot Three’ in November 2017.  As with her previous Juno nominated release ‘New’, this album was also recorded in New Orleans, but this time the singer took it one step further.  Pangman approached this project in the spirit of early jazz recording pioneers, recording the album direct to acetate 78 rpm disc, live, on a 1930’s portable Presto lathe.  No smoke. No mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Unlike most recordings nowadays, we experienced what the early recorded greats would have; recording without headphones, in one room, using a single microphone, and no safety nets, no editing performance in post.  Tempos and arrangements were tailored to a maximum 3:15 length to fit the 10-inch disc width. Toe tapping was forbidden lest vibrations travel up the needle and spoil the groove\". In taking on the mindset and conditions of the early recording pioneers, Pangman understood better what contributes to classic recordings having such special energy, and herself experienced some of the most inspired performances she’s had in studio. Additionally, the hot and bawdy tunes are of the sort one might expect from a one-room studio at the side of the road in New Orleans, including the jazz classic Sweethearts On Parade, written by the Canadian Carmen Lombardo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Pangman","offers":[{"title":"Digital Download","offer_id":39443918422176,"sku":"0068944861057","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":39443975962784,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8477\/2768\/products\/146b0070-65cd-41cd-b1dd-7b192b9c691912850016032266373156-LARGE_9e2425a2-e179-4360-baae-660e8e97bd56.jpg?v=1615492462"},{"product_id":"im-all-dressed-up-with-a-broken-heart-1","title":"I'm All Dressed up with a Broken Heart","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCanada’s ‘sweetheart of swing’ Alex Pangman has released her newest single, “I’m All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart” — available now!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe award winning and JUNO Award nominee’s version of the 1931 piece is sung to the sounds of viola and guitar, allowing the melancholy tones of the strings to echo Pangman’s distinctly striking vocals, as if in sympathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe song’s beautiful lyrics and melody tell the story of perseverance in spite of heartbreak, a theme as essential today as it was some 90 years ago when first penned by Fred Fisher, Stella Unger, and Harold Stern, and performed by the likes of Connee Boswell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I’m All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart” is the follow-up to Pangman’s prior and most recent December 2019 release, “If I Don’t Mean It”; the previously unrecorded and yet-to-be-heard original composition by Boswell was specifically gifted to Pangman by the late icon’s family, and went on to reach #1 on the iTunes Jazz Chart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Connee is the grandmother of today’s jazz and pop singing,” says Pangman of Boswell and her vast accomplishments, ranging from selling 75 million records to inspiring generations of singers, most notably Ella Fitzgerald and now Pangman herself. “I don’t expect a revival, but I do hope to bring her name to more people’s lips.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile the video was shot in Florence, Italy in a circa-1700s traditional Florentine apartment, Pangman recorded “I’m All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart” in Toronto, Ontario at the studio of violinist Drew Jurecka, who plays on the track alongside Pangman’s ‘go-to’ guitarist, Nathan Hiltz. In a remarkably simple recording session, the trio went live into the board acoustically, and with no baffling, delivering a warmth in tone that is best achieved when artists ‘share air.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Pangman","offers":[{"title":"Digital Download","offer_id":39444044578976,"sku":"0068944813353","price":1.29,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8477\/2768\/products\/663b67dc-6b2e-4c95-9c67-f48787283e689992833517469886452-LARGE_2c026906-9e93-4a72-8ed7-38744c4db732.jpg?v=1615493308"},{"product_id":"if-i-dont-mean-it-1","title":"If I Don't Mean It","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConnee Boswell was an immensely influential singing star of the 1930s \u0026amp; 40s, in the United States. Her joyful, innovative, highly popular records with The Boswell Sisters, and solo, brought joy to so many people during a very dark time in America's history, selling 75 million records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoswell was both wildly popular, and hugely impactful on some of America's greatest singing stars, including the Andrews Sisters, \u0026amp; Bing Crosby. Boswell famously inspired the young Ella Fitzgerald the night the fledgling singer stood on stage at the Apollo Talent Contest and imitated Connee's singing style, and launching the singing career of one of world's most heralded and idolized vocalists. This is why the discovery of a “new” \u0026amp; unpublished Connee Boswell song called “If I Don't Mean It” is so important and exciting. She was an American treasure, and an international star.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnter Alex Pangman, the say-no-more quintessential jazz and swing artist Canada knows and adores. In a fortuitous connection with Connee's grandniece, Kyla Titus, Pangman was gifted a previously unpublished song by Connee, on hand-written sheet music, along with a pair of the singer's red stage gloves.  To add to the excitement, compositions by the singer are a complete rarity. “It was a 'pinch-me' moment to be holding the sheet music and singing this song, one that few had seen or sung, except for Boswell and those closest to her.  I felt like I was holding buried treasure!”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Pangman","offers":[{"title":"Digital Download","offer_id":39444080230560,"sku":"0068944813056","price":1.29,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8477\/2768\/products\/07f205f7-62ae-43f2-92ac-0bf6e0eac97c14608431282621485935-LARGE_1ad2a4b9-7b5d-4a60-913c-27f30d274e69.jpg?v=1615493841"},{"product_id":"new-1","title":"New","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" abp=\"1148\"\u003eToronto’s Alex Pangman released her 3rd album entitled 'New' on the Justin Time label late in 2014.  The album was recorded in New Orleans, a mere seven months after Pangman underwent a second double lung transplant surgery. “I kept it private that I was rejecting my first set of lungs, but with this newest transplant I feel amazing, and wanted to get right back to singing, and come clean about my health struggles.”   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" abp=\"1149\"\u003eNew being the theme, it represents both a new chance at life, but also a shock of new things. 'New' co-producer Andrew Gilchrist recorded Pangman in New Orleans, using new musicians from the city where jazz was born.  “I wanted to test myself as a singer and bandleader by taking this record someplace different, physically and sonically. This new session has a slightly different soundscape, no drums, the funky bass saxophone, and an almost entirely new band. 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Joining vocalist extraordinaire Alex Pangman on much of this project, is the incomparable Bucky Pizzarelli, a guitarist who's worked with everyone from Benny Goodman, to Les Paul, to Stephane Grappelli, \"Bucky is 'the real deal.' He's a charming man who with open arms welcomed me to his musical world, and when he starts to strum, you pay attention. He's like an entire rhythm section.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlex's stalwart band The Alleycats make up the rest of this disc, with the shining addition of Brigham Phillips on trumpet. Included here are a few of Alex's own originals in the 1930s style. Of note is The Fog Song, which features the great Laurie Bower on mournful trombone and Melancholy Lullaby. Great classic songs from a bygone era are also included - such as Stardust, I'm Confessin', and Undecided, to name a few. 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