Little Jazz Bird
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TRACKS
1. Little Jazz Bird
2. Thou Swell
3. Occasional Man
4. If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow
5. But Not For Me
6. Solid Potato Salad
7. Down With Love
8. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
9. No Moon At All
10. Hershey Bar
11. Hallelujah, I Love Him So
12. Waters Of March
13. Give Me The Simple Life
14. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year

PERSONNEL
Christina Crerar - vocals/arrangements
Jeff Antoniuk, saxophone
Tom Baldwin, bass/arrangements
Alan Baylock, producer/arrangements
Mike Crotty, flute
Jim McFalls, trombone
Robert Redd, piano/arrangements
Geoff Reecer, guitar
Dominic Smith, drums
Tom Williams, trumpet

Bob Dawson, engineer, BIAS Studios, Springfield VA
Gloria Dawson, studio manager (and life-saver!)
Charlie Pilzer, engineer, AirShow Mastering

REVIEWS
"It only seems there are more talented jazz divas than listeners, but it's a competitive field, to say the least. Despite strong bids by Karrin Allyson, Cheryl Bentyne, Ann Hampton Callaway, Tierney Sutton, and Diana Krall (to name a few), Christina Crerar's Little Jazz Bird is an overachiever that keeps winning my heart and respect along with repeated playings. In fact, it takes the gold in every event except the commercial one."
-Samuel Chell - 2006 Top 10 Recordings, 10 Best New Releases
AllAboutJazz.com (read)

Christina Crerar’s Little Jazz Bird is a constant joy. The singer’s repertoire is inspired. “Little Jazz Bird,” “Thou Swell,” “An Occasional Man,” “Solid Potato Salad,” “Down With Love,” “No Moon At All” and “Give Me The Simple Life” are the type of songs with their unique lyrics that today’s singers should be reviving. The well-conceived arrangements and frameworks throughout Little Jazz Bird keep listeners guessing and the material ranges from a wordless version of Johnny Mandel’s Hershey Bar” and a vocal-bass duet on “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” to “Waters Of March” and three songs that utilize a trio of horns. The musicianship by the Virginia-based musicians...is top-notch. But best of all is the singing of Christina Crerar. She has a very attractive, flexible and versatile voice. She is perfectly in-tune, interprets lyrics as if she believes the words, is expert at hitting just the right note for the right time, and can improvise with the best. In the old days, she would be a natural for a major label. Little Jazz Bird is one of the finest jazz vocal albums of recent times and is available from www.littlejazzbird.com.
- Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene

These days there's hardly a shortage of aspiring female songbirds or recordings that document their efforts. What's rare is to come upon an artist with as much talent and taste as Christina Crerar and an album as carefully conceived, produced, and executed as this one.
- AllAboutJazz.com (read the review)

...a vocalist who wants to use her voice as a storyteller and as an instrument.  Check out Ms. Crerar's scatting prowess on “Hershey Bar” and with a very cool vocal/trombone solo combo with Jim McFalls on “But Not For Me.”
-JazzRevivew.com (read the review)

NOTES OF THANKS
This project was made possible in part by the following generous supporters:

The Andrew and Lorelei Crerar 'Foundation', John and Katherine Crerar, Lorrie Fox, Amy and Gordon Janis, Mike and Linda Oliver, Mike Santarlas, Nancy Whipp, Chuck and Janet Ziegler, Anonymous