Congratulations to Carolyn & Wayne

Mizar5 is back online with some "family news":

On July 8 Carolyn Leonhart-Escoffery(*) and Wayne Escoffery became parents to a boy; Vaughn Jalen Escoffery. Picture of the baby over on Mizar5.

Congratulations to the parents from Radio Dupree, the unofficial Walter Becker Imaginary Playcousin station(!)

(*) Trivia: Carolyn is still the only Steely Dan member who has left a comment on this blog.

Ooops. "Midsomer Murders" on the TV. Gotta go!

New Carolyn Leonhart record

Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery's If Dreams Come True was released seven months ago. May 26 is date set for Carolyn's new solo album Chances Are - The Romantic Music Of Robert Allen.

Robert who?

According to Wikipedia:
Robert Allen (February 5, 1927-October 1, 2000) was a pianist and an arranger and writer of music for popular songs. He was an accompanist for Perry Como, Peter Lind Hayes, and Arthur Godfrey. Many of his compositions were collaborations with lyricist Al Stillman.

The album is released by President Records in England. And if you're an emusic.com subscriber you don't have to wait for May 26; you can download the album right now.

Link to a pressrelease.

Tracks:

1	Chances Are
2	I Don't Regret A Thing
3	Come To Me
4	You Are Never Far Away From Me
5	Everybody Loves A Lover
6	Meantime
7	It's Not For Me To Say
8	Play For Keeps
9	It Could Have Been Worse
10	No Such Luck
11	Teacher, Teacher
12	I'm Loving You A Lot
13	Moments To Remember

Carolyn Leonhart on Bloomberg Radio

Yet another radio show of interest to the Steely Dan fan:
Carolyn Leonhart will be on the Bloomberg Radio show The Bloomberg Muse Sunday Februray 10. I am sure the interview will mention both Steely Dan as well as her and husband Wayne Escoffery's latest album If Dreams Come True.

Listen link, program schedule and stuff can be found here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/radio/

Finally updated

It took a bit longer than expected and planned, but we finally got the first update of the year for the Radio Dupree homepage. This being our fifth anniversary year, we'll get some extra stuff going there eventually, but this time around it's just a lite update to get the year going.

And here's some Weekend Music:

Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery perform Earth Calling from their new CD If Dreams Come True.

Lyn Leon

August up and went. September's here. Dark outside and the temperature is fighting to stay above 0 these days...

In the mood for some music to fit that weather and this time of year where we are situated. Cue the song Never by Swiss percussion group Lyn Leon featuring Steely Dan vocalist Carolyn Leonhart:



More on Lyn Leon:
Official homepage
MySpace page