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Release Date: 28 August 2026
Label: Anzic Records / A-Train
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 658580047559
Description
Acclaimed vocalists Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, and Melissa Stylianou join forces and voices to become Duchess, a New York City-based vocal trio known for tight harmonies and big fun, carrying the tradition of the Boswell and Andrews Sisters into the 21st century.
A Marvelous Party chooses joy without pretending the world is any less complicated or any less in turmoil. Across a program arranged by producer Oded Lev-Ari for swinging rhythm and horn sections, Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, and Melissa Stylianou treat pleasure not as escapism but as a way of staying human - meeting dark times with wit, swing, hijinks, and close harmony.
The album carries a deep awareness of passing time: time that alters lives, songs that have endured across generations, and alchemy that only live performance, night after night, can create. What remains constant is the reason for making music in the first place - being together, singing together, and finding shared delight.
The album unfolds as a series of vignettes from a party, each song catching a distinct colour or mood: wild, bittersweet, glamorous, unruly, wistful, tender. Twelve years after the group first found its sound around a piano in a tiny storefront, Duchess stays true to their credo: The party is still here, and no one is taking the good times for granted.
Tracklisting
Moya Brennan & Cormac de Barra
Los Days (Tommy Guerrero & Josh Lippi)
Adam Hawley
Dutchess
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
WDR Big Band
WDR Big Band & Bob Mintzer
Gerald Allbright
Dutchess
La Tempête; Simon-Pierre Bestion
Lotte Betts-Dean, Joseph Havlat
Chanticleer
Stephen Costello; Constantine Orbelian; Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Sandrine Piau; David Kadouch
Rosemary Standley; Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien; Francois Lazarevitch
Jeanine De Bique, Terry Wey, Kammerorchester Basel
