| Chaise Lounge performs a blend of music that sounds like it was recorded at Capitol Recording Studios in 1962 and somehow found its way to today’s pop charts. You might call it “Early Stereo.” Or perhaps Lounge with a capital “L.” Or maybe just plain enjoyable. It is the combination of five of the Washington area’s top jazz musicians playing sparkling arrangements of standards and original tunes and featuring the soft, luminous vocals of Marilyn Older. Her voice is truly an American Original. An evening spent with her is an evening spent in the warm, inviting glow of one of the wonderful voices singing in America right now. |
Rumors of New Chaise Lounge CD Are True!
The release date to be announced in Spring 2010.
Live at the Kennedy Center
On January 31, 2010, Chaise Lounge performed on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. You can watch the whole show at the Kennedy Center website.
Atlas Performing Arts Center
Sun. March 21, 2010
5:00 PM - $25 - Buy Tickets Here
Chaise Lounge will be performing with a full orchestra - the Capital City Symphony - at the Atlas Performing Arts Center under the baton of Maestra Victoria Gau. This will also include the World Premier of the Orchestral Suite: "The Tarot" by Charlie Barnett.
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
Charleston Jazz Series Letter
November 23, 2009
Charlie,
We had so many favorable comments about Chaise Lounge’s performance [at the Charleston Jazz Series on November 21, 2009]. What a fun group of musicians! Until the next time...
Claudette Hudson
President
Tgraphics, LLC [Charleston Jazz Series]
WV Public Broadcasting
November 19, 2009
Listen to an interview with Chaise Lounge on the Eclectopia Blog at the West Virginia Public Broadcasting website.
Fanfare Magazine
Nov/Dec 2009
(Permission to reprint by Fanfare)
Second Hand Smoke CD Review
True to this group’s name, the material on their second CD fits better in a category sometimes described as lounge music than it fits into jazz. Of course, lounge music never would have existed were it not for jazz, but lounge music does what it does through calculation, whereas jazz, even when it is cool jazz, relies on spontaneity. There’s little evidence of an improvisatory spirit at work on “Second Hand Smoke.” That’s not a criticism at all—merely my attempt not to mislead Fanfare’s readers.
Read the rest on the Press page.
On Tap Magazine
November 2009
On Tap writes an article about Charlie Barnett and Chaise Lounge. Read it online or download
the 
pdf.
“So Hush”
From Charlie
I’ve been listening a lot to James Hunter and it feels like every time I write, or even hum something, it comes out with that old-school Sam Cooke feel. The same one that James Hunter uses on his best tunes. We just premiered this song at the Atlas Theater concert last week. I played acoustic guitar and John played cornet. Marilyn of course sang beautifully. This is just a rough mix of the studio version, but I thought it would be nice for you to hear a song “in progress.”
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