Sous l’aile d’un oiseau

Joe Sullivan’s latest CD recording features Sonia Johnson and a ten-piece ensemble. The album contains 12 tracks in all, with 11 songs and one instrumental piece. Six of the songs are in French based on the poems of fellow Franco-ontarian Patrice Desbiens, and five are in English based on poems by WB Yeats, Walter De La Mare and Sullivan’s own lyrics.

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Performers

• Joe Sullivan, band leader, compositions, trumpet & flugel horn
• Sonia Johnson, voice
• Jean-Pierre Zanella, alto saxophone & flute
• Yvan Belleau, tenor saxophone & clarinet
• Jean Frechette, baritone saxophone & bass clarinet
• Sarah Amahrit, french horn
• Jean-Nicholas Trottier, trombone
• Jean-Sébastien Vachon, tuba
• Kate Wyatt, piano
• Adrian Vedady: bass
• Jim Doxas: drums

Track Listing

1. Sous l’aile d’un oiseau (Music by  Joe Sullivan lyrics Patrice Desbiens)
2. When You Are Old (Music by  Joe Sullivan poem by William Butler Yeats)
3. Ce son (Music by  Joe Sullivan lyrics Patrice Desbiens)
4. The Ghost (Music by  Joe Sullivan poem by Walter De la Mare)
5. Le huard de la lune (Music by  Joe Sullivan lyrics Patrice Desbiens)
6. Your Voice (music and lyrics by Joe Sullivan)
7. 11+11 (Joe Sullivan)
8. Un vent ventouse valse (Music by  Joe Sullivan lyrics Patrice Desbiens)
9. Song of Shadows (music and lyrics by Joe Sullivan)
10. Le 6 Août 1945 (Music by  Joe Sullivan lyrics Patrice Desbiens)
11. The Falling of the Leaves (Music by  Joe Sullivan poem by William Butler Yeats)
12. Elle s’endort (Music by Joe Sullivan lyrics Patrice Desbiens)