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Adi Braun's love affair with the music of Cole Porter runs long and deep. The acclaimed Toronto jazz and cabaret chanteuse has long covered his tunes in her performances and on record. She describes the music of her favorite Great American Songbook writer as "delicious, a great combination of naughty, provocative, sensuous, witty and devastatingly beautiful. I am also smitten by the fact that he wrote both lyrics and music, and his use of sexy Latin beats and rhythms is another major drawing card for me."Braun's affection for the work of the masterful songwriter has now reached full bloom with Night And Day (The Cole Porter Songbook), an album comprising ten classic Cole Porter songs given vibrant new life. Her sixth full-length record, it will be released on Sept. 15, 2023 on noted Toronto independent record label, ALMA Records.Adi's most ambitious album yet, Night and Dayis a collaboration with Emmy-winning Canadian keyboardist, songwriter, producer,and arranger Don Breithaupt (Monkey House, Brass Transit). The pair had long had a mutual admiration for each other's work, as Don explains."Adi was one of the first singers to record songs by the Breithaupt Brothers, on her 2005 album The Rules Of TheGame, and I've always respected her sound, her nuance as an interpreter, and her international approach to jazz. "I contacted her in 2021, as I had a feeling I could help her cook something great. The minute we zeroed in on the Cole Porter songbook, a bottomless well of great melodies and lyrics, we had our focus." The material on Night and Dayneatly showcases the broad emotional and musical range of Cole Porter's work, as exemplified in the title. Adi explains that "I find his songs illuminate different aspects of love, in a fascinating way."The tunes Braun interprets here range from light and bubbly romps to such powerfully emotional songs as "Love For Sale" and "In The Still Of The Night."

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• Emphasis on social media marketing campaigns geo-targeted to North American markets
• Servicing all key jazz publications, full national and regional press including online portals, blogs and websites
• Will be touring with orchestra late fall. Dates TBA
• For fans of Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Julie London, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Rosemary Clooney, k.d. land, Oscar Peterson, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Patti Page, Keely Smith, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Nat King Cole
• Serving to College, Jazz, Latin, World radio and NPR

Press Quotes

'The music world is blessed .......a major jazz singer

     —Scott Yanow, Jazz Critic

'....doses of playful wit and passion a plenty'

     —Geoff Chapman, Performance Magazine

'A formidable storyteller, she gets completely inside the lyric and includes musicians and audience in the journey'

     —Sybi Walker, Jazz Promoter

'Adi Braun was born to sing.' 'Braun has the pipes - and she sure lets you hear them...Think Ernestine Anderson, Shirley Horn, Judy Garland and you get the idea.'

     —Leonard Turnevicius, Hamilton Spectator

'A power-frau who gives jazz standards a unique touch'

     —Heribert Brinkmann, Rheinische Post, Germany

'Braun holds her own vocally against the godmothers of jazz, and she deftly mixes up her set with classical, pop, cabaret and blues...... but what puts her ahead of most contemporary jazz singer is her superb timing and phrasing, which she uses to revive old

     —Brent Raynor, Now Magazine

'In her high-octane performance, Adi Braun pays musical homage to the fearless women of Weimar Era Braun reimagines the music of these greats with fresh and bold Jazz stylings she sings with a wide vocal range that moves freely between Jazz and chanson.

     —Kerstin Schweiger, IOCO Kultur im Netz, Berlin

'Adi Braun is playing to her strengths on Moderne Frau...there is nothing whatsoever that can outshine Braun's luminously sung performance.

     —Raul de Gama, The Wholenote Magazine