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You Brought A New Kind of Love is the theme song from the 1963 romantic comedy film a New Kind Of Love starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward with supporting cast Thelma Rita, Eva Gabor, George Tobias and Maurice Chevalier. Frank Sinatra sang over the credits with music written by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal.
The Story: A womanizing American reporter assigned in Paris (Paul Newman) mistakes a cynical fashion copycat designer (Joanne Woodward) for a prostitute after she receives a makeover. He decides to interview her for a series of articles, and then falls in love with her. The girl goes along with it, first out of revenge as he snubbed her during a past encounter, then out of feelings of her own.
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Matthew Clayton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 10, 1980. Picking up the saxophone at age ten his love of jazz was fueled playing in big bands in middle school when he played lead alto. It was during this time that he began venturing into improvisation. By high school he was a member of the National Grammy All Star High School Jazz Band, played the Village Vanguard, Birdland and Carnegie Hall in New York City. While there he also met and gigged with Grover Washington, Jr. and Al Grey, and was a featured performer at a winter jazz festival in Paris, France.
Matriculating through Yale University, Matthew went on to get his Masters and Ph.D. from Harvard University specializing in ethnomusicology, with an emphasis on the study of jazz. While at Harvard, Clayton directed the Harvard Graduate School Big Band and performed with students from the nearby Berklee College of Music, taught saxophone privately and at the Litchfield Summer Jazz Camp in Connecticut and privately while completing his studies.
Dr. Matthew Clayton is currently on the faculty of the prestigious Nelly Berman School of Music, is the Director of Jazz Combos at the University of Pennsylvania, has released his debut album “On The Move” last year and continues to perform.
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Juul Johansson, better known as Mads Mathias, was born on January 9, 1981 in Silkeborg, Denmark and grew up partly in Tanzania. Growing up in a musical home, his exposure to music began at infancy, picking up the saxophone as his main instrument by age 11. A car accident at seventeen left his right hand injured, losing his index finger and half of two other fingers. Afraid that his days of playing the saxophone were over, he started singing and writing songs instead.
Inspired and influenced by the great jazz vocalists of the past and present from Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra to Harry Connick Jr, and with a deep respect for the crooner tradition, Mathias is nevertheless an original talent with a unique and effortlessly charming vocal delivery and a skill for writing catchy and memorable, stylishly crafted tunes.
Fortunately the rehabilitation of his hand made him able to play the saxophone again and at age 20 he was entered the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, graduating in 2007.From an early age, Mads Mathias was a part of Jutland jazz scene and today is part of the Danish music scene: As a studio musician, he has contributed to several record releases and frequently used live dates.
In 2012 released debut solo album Free Falling which won him a Danish Music Award for “Best New Danish Jazz Artist of the Year”, He also won an Honorable Mention Award at one of the world’s largest songwriting competitions for his song “Fool for Love” and Kvintet with the addition of Espen Laub in addition to critical reviews and airplay on Danish radio.
Besides his own Mads Mathias Orchestra, Mads formed Mads Mathias Kvartet with Peter Rosendal, Regin Fuhlendorf and Morten Ankarfeldt and appears with The Danish Radio Big Band, Tivoli Big Band and Six City Stompers. The vocalist, songwriter and saxophonist continues to perform and record.
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Maya Nova was born on January 8, 1974 in Bulgaria. The soulful jazz vocalist earned her BA Degree from the Popular Music Department of National Music Academy in Bulgaria and pursued the live music stage with several leading jazz and funk groups.
Maya was a finalist at two Voice Competitions for young talents: “Golden Orpheus” and “Star Moments”, where she performed with the Bulgarian National Radio Big Band. After making several appearances at Sofia Jazz Fall Festival with her Jazz Quartet that led her to appear on the popular TV program “Todor Kolev’s Night Show” with the National Music Academy Big Band.
In 1998, Nova toured Europe: Denmark, Norway, England and Cypress and in 2002 she moved to Singapore. For the next 10 years she became one of the sought after jazz vocalists at concerts, festivals and clubs not only in Singapore but also in Malaysia, India, China and South Korea.
In 2009, Nova was a semi-finalist in the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition at the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. She released her debut album “Open” in 2010 with a concert at the Late Nite Show series at Esplanade Recital Hall, Singapore. The following year she performed with her jazz quartet at Bansko International Jazz Festival and Nisville Jazz Festival in collaboration with saxophonist Rick Margitza.
Vocalist Maya Nova moved to New York in 2012 and currently shares her artist schedule between performing and teaching.
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George Kahn was born on January 7, 1952 and grew up in New Rochelle, New York, studying classical music from the age of nine. He began composing while in high school and was always interested in improvisational music. As a Composition Major at Brandeis University, he studied the music of Charles Ives, John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
In his last years at Brandeis, being particularly affected by John Coltrane’s Kulu Se Mama, which opened his mind towards what was possible in music. After graduating, he lived on Cape Cod for a couple of years, did some gigs in Boston, toured the East Coast with a disco band and eventually moved to California in 1976.
Kahn worked in an improvising New Age group for a few years, studied arranging with Spud Murphy, and performed in a variety of settings. In the latter half of the 1990s he made his move, forming the Playing Music label and Sudhana Music Publishing. Since then he has released six CDs.
George performs frequently in the Los Angeles area, including an annual Jazz For The Homeless fundraiser for the charity PATH (People Assisting The Homeless) and benefits for public school music programs and looks forward to touring again in the near future.
Consistently creative, pianist George Kahn has received critical acclaim for his 2008 “Cover Up!” and continues to perform, subsequently releasing “Jazz & Blues Revue”, an 8–piece band with three vocalists in 2014.
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