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Remarkable vocalist debut!

Left Alone / Lady Kim

VRCL 18818 (CD & SACD Hybrid) 2,835 (tax in)
VRJL 7018 (LP) ¥ 3,360 (tax in)
 

01.Left Alone
02.Afro Blue
03. When Sunny Gets Blue
04. Since I Fell for You
05. I'm Glad There Is You
06. If I Were a Bell
07. Misty
08. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
09. Amgel Eyes
10. On a Clear Day
11. Bird Alone
12. Strange Fruit

Recorded at Sony Music Studios TOKYO on September 27 & 28, 2003

HYBRID Released as a CD/SACD hybrid. Super Audio CD layer carries Stereo and Multi-ch (5ch) information.
 

click for vinyl (analog) LP song sequence

Personnel:
Lady Kim (vocal)
Lloyd Mayers (piano)
Paul Brown (bass)
Clarence "Tootsie" Bean (drums)
Impressive and promising vocalist debut!
Vocalist Lady Kim, a.k.a. Kim Zombik sings with the touch of elegance that is missing in a lot of jazz singers today. Kim has been transposing herself from many a setting since she found herself under spotlights. Building her career as a singer for reggae band, funk and jazz groups, she is most famously known with the role as the late Billie Holiday in the play "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," a play by Lanie Robertson.

Her voice and the way she delivers each songs are animated with a graceful quality that distinguishes her from other singers.

Title tune LEFT ALONE was composed by pianist Mal Waldron and lyrics written by Billie Holiday, however Billie has never had a chance to record. Kim's interpretation and approach to the title tune has the rawness that Holiday used to capture.


Lady Kim

Kimberly Zombik

Loving to dance and sing, she started to perform in front of the audience after enrolling University of Massachusetts. First performing with New Horizon, she went to sing with the reggae band The Equalities, then fronted the funk and jazz group Stash, and lead her own band Live on the Planet. She's played the lead role on the musical "Hair, For the Next Generation" and also "In the Blood of Black Woman."
In 2001, she auditioned for the role Billie Holiday in the play "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," and toured Japan in 2002 and 2003.