Vocalist/Voice Actor B.J.Ward and Pianist Donn Trenner Release "Double Feature"The twelve song CD from the formerly married friends features (mostly) music from the movies and theater, with several rarely heard songs including the haunting and beautiful (Theme from) “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Drifting” (Auntie Mame) and “Do You Know Why?” (Love Thy Neighbor). Available on LML, Amazon, iTunes
By: SavoyPR Ward and Trenner recorded Double Feature improvisationally, capturing voice and piano together with no over-dubbing of vocals. “It was a very free, creative atmosphere with few rules,” says Ward. “Like good acting, it keeps a singer really listening to her partner.” The previously married duo's first recording, Vocal-Ease, has been described as “groovy covers and groovy originals.” It was recorded in the Netherlands by a large ensemble and released in the very groovy year of 1974. About B.J. Ward B.J. Ward is one of the country’s most prolific voice talents, who has voiced hundreds of film animation and narration projects from G.I. Joe and Wonder Woman to many video games. BJ's voice is the welcoming voice that greets all visitors to The Magic Kingdom…Disneyland, Disney World, and Epcot Center. She is also known for creating a unique and very popular show one-woman show, Stand-Up Opera, which she has performed at The Kennedy Center and as a guest artist with Symphonies and Performing Arts Centers around the country. In 2005, Michael Feinstein produced her recording, B.J. Ward sings the songs of Marshall Barer, honoring the music of the eccentric and mercurial lyricist of Once Upon a Mattress. In addition to Vocal-Ease and the Barer CD, she has recorded The Queen Of The Night , Stand-Up Opera , and SYRINX Voice of the Songbird. Ward made her professional stage debut as Luisa/the Girl in the original off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks. On the road to fame, fortune and film roles she sang backup for Ann-Margret in Las Vegas, became a licensed aviator and was an original member of the Groundlings with friends Paul (Pee Wee Herman) Reubens and the late Phil Hartman. B.J. Ward is also a children’s book author published by Simon and Schuster, and is married to the Film and Television director (and producer of Double Feature) Gordon Hunt. About Donn Trenner Donn Trenner is a pioneering bebop pianist who began his career in the 1940’s, eventually appearing on over 100 recordings after 1950. He played with innovators Charlie Parker, Charlie Mingus, Stan Getz and Ben Webster, among other of his jazz contemporaries, and eventually began to work with Les Brown and His Band of Renown and comedian Bob Hope. Trenner became well known as an arranger and conductor, which led to gigs with stars such as Ann-Margret (he was her Musical Director for eighteen years), Nancy Wilson, Lena Horne, Jack Jones and many other top singers and TV personalities. He soon became the bandleader on the Steve Allen Show, a stylistic predecessor of The Tonight Show. Trenner currently leads the The Hartford Jazz Orchestra, records and occasionally accompanies singers. B.J. Ward ARTIST REPRESENTATION: Press Representative for Double Feature: Betsyann Faiella, SavoyPR Phone/Text: 310.283.2415 Email: bafaiella@savoypr.com Contact SavoyPR ***@savoypr.com Photos: https://www.prlog.org/ https://www.prlog.org/ End
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