Mood Swings Richard Cortez

• 1 Lullaby Of Birdland 07:44
• 2 You Go To My Head 07:18
• 3 God Bless The Child 08:22
• 4 Old Black Magic 06:06
• 5 Teach Me Tonight 06:36
• 6 You Don't Know What Love Is 06:54
• 7 Til There Was You 03:06
• Total Runtime 46:06

Info for Mood Swings

This exciting new singer is one to watch! Emerging from the New York City jazz scene, Richard Cortez handles the Great American Songbook with a deep emotional intelligence, an unbridled passion for song, and an activist’s relationship to both his material and his audience.

Richard has shared the bandstand with some of New York City’s most celebrated and respected musicians — Sullivan Fortner, Grant Stewart, Joe Farnsworth, Jerry Weldon, Nicole Glover, Russell Hall and Emmet Cohen — to name a few.

Splitting his time between a number of weekly residencies at iconic venues across the city, Cortez has focused and refined his artistry while growing his diverse fan-base. Recent performance productions and venues include Live at Emmet’s Place, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s "Jazz at Pride" with Tony/Grammy Award winner Bryan Carter, Birdland Theater, The Django, Arthur’s Tavern, Mezzrow, and Smalls.

Cortez’s openly gay renderings of timeless treasures by Cole Porter, Billie Holiday, Jerome Kern, and so many others deliver sweetness, self-assuredness and disarming vulnerability with well-timed wit. Richard breathes exciting new life into this beloved material, forever reminding us that as we progress as a society, so do our stories told within these sacred songs.

Richard Cortez, vocals
Richard Cortez Band

Richard Cortez
known for his ambition and extensive knowledge of The Great American Songbook, has shared the bandstand with some of New York City’s most celebrated and respected musicians — Sullivan Fortner, Adam Birnbaum, Paul Gill, Peter Bernstein, Grant Stewart, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth, Jerry Weldon, Joe Strasser, Nicole Glover, Russell Hall and Emmet Cohen — to name a few.

Splitting his time between a number of weekly residencies at iconic LGBT venues across the city—among them: Club Cumming, Metropolitan Bar, and Rebar—Cortez has focused and refined his artistry while growing his wide fan-base. Recent performances in distinguished productions such as Live at Emmet’s Place with the Emmet Cohen Trio, or Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz at Pride with drummer/bandleader Bryan Carter, have marked the vocalist’s career for success.

Cortez’s openly gay renderings of timeless treasures by Cole Porter, Billie Holiday, Jerome Kern, and so many others deliver sweetness, self-assuredness and disarming vulnerability with a well-timed wit. Richard breathes exciting new life into this beloved material, forever reminding us that as we progress as a society, so do our stories told within these sacred songs.

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