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"A First Rate Singer with Style" -Jazz Review
Chicago based retro crooner and now songwriter Frank Lamphere, whose live performances have always been heavy on Rat Pack, Tony Bennett, Jack Jones and the like, on February 01, 2012 will release an EP of jazzy self written and produced songs titled Frank Swings.
Lamphere, despite several studio recordings and high profile gigs at Jilly's and the Peninsula Hotel has been for years, "Soaring under the radar". He loves nightclub work but describes most nightclubs as "not knowing if they are music venues or sports bars". Consequently, with keen marketing and business management skills (Frank has run a west suburban deck construction company A-Affordable Decks for about twenty years) he took his niche act to corporate America, and has experienced great success. Frank and his diverse bands perform shows for local merchants to Fortune 500 companies. Country clubs, theaters and such venues as the famous Empire Room, the 95th Floor, and the Marriott Marquis in Times Square have all played host to Rat Pack Jazz (Lamphere's music brand) There are also weddings and the occasional and welcomed festival that offer a nice change of pace.
Frank Swings whose five cuts not only represent Lamphere's first outing as a songwriter but, his first self released studio work since 2002's Ain't Love a Kick. Early in his career Lamphere admittedly went for the Frank or Dean vocal sound but eventually realized to have a chance at artistic success he had to blaze his own musical path. During his recording absence he has crafted a singing style all his own, polished his sound and presentation, began committing to paper the melodies that were coming into his head ever more frequently and has emerged as an artist with something to add to the jazz and pop standards conversation.
Chicago based retro crooner and now songwriter Frank Lamphere, whose live performances have always been heavy on Rat Pack, Tony Bennett, Jack Jones and the like, on February 01, 2012 will release an EP of jazzy self written and produced songs titled Frank Swings.
Lamphere, despite several studio recordings and high profile gigs at Jilly's and the Peninsula Hotel has been for years, "Soaring under the radar". He loves nightclub work but describes most nightclubs as "not knowing if they are music venues or sports bars". Consequently, with keen marketing and business management skills (Frank has run a west suburban deck construction company A-Affordable Decks for about twenty years) he took his niche act to corporate America, and has experienced great success. Frank and his diverse bands perform shows for local merchants to Fortune 500 companies. Country clubs, theaters and such venues as the famous Empire Room, the 95th Floor, and the Marriott Marquis in Times Square have all played host to Rat Pack Jazz (Lamphere's music brand) There are also weddings and the occasional and welcomed festival that offer a nice change of pace.
Frank Swings whose five cuts not only represent Lamphere's first outing as a songwriter but, his first self released studio work since 2002's Ain't Love a Kick. Early in his career Lamphere admittedly went for the Frank or Dean vocal sound but eventually realized to have a chance at artistic success he had to blaze his own musical path. During his recording absence he has crafted a singing style all his own, polished his sound and presentation, began committing to paper the melodies that were coming into his head ever more frequently and has emerged as an artist with something to add to the jazz and pop standards conversation.
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