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Tracklist

1.That's How I Got My Start

2.I'll Take Romance

3. Where Did The Magic Go?

4.An Occasional Man

5.Wasting My Love On You

6.Nevertheless

7.A Little Jive Is Good For You

8.The Man I Love Is Gone

9.All About You

10.Nothing Can Replace A Man

11.It's A Nuisance Having You Around

12. Long Ago and Far Away and You Stepped Out of a Dream

13. I Once Knew a Fella

Laura Ainsworths third album, New Vintage, scored five nominations and an unprecedented triple win of the 2018 Artists Music Guild Heritage Awards, for Album, Video (That How I Got My Start) and Female Vocalist of the Year, and a 2019 AMG Best Video award for Where Did the Magic Go? It was also honored with three Global Music Awards, the Clousine International Music Magazine Award for best jazz album and five Josie Music Awards nominations. It earned Laura profiles in Downbeat, Cadence, Jazz Japan and other top music publications. She was also featured and interviewed on many lounge/jazz radio shows and podcasts, such as Lounging With Lombardi, Everything Old Is New Again and Cocktail Nation. She also became the first contemporary artist ever featured on the Buddies Lounge podcast.

Reviews of New Vintage

Beautiful voice, expressive and sensitive, accompanied by a group with serious professionalismAn excellent album! -Serge Warin, Radio Grand Brive, Objat, France

Laura Ainsworth is breathing new life into the previously staid jazz standards album formatAs excellent as Laura's first two albums have been,New Vintagelooks to be Laura's breakthrough. WithNew Vintage, Laura creates a rich, intoxicating atmosphere that transports the mind to another place and time. Laura swings and seduces her way into the heart like only the original jazz singers could previously do. They don't make 'em like they used to no longer applies, as Laura has rediscovered a large portion of the formula, and uses it liberally on theNew Vintagealbum. Thank you, Laura, for making the Great American Songbook exciting and fun again!- David Gasten, Producer, This is Vintage Now compilation series

She has a voice and style that don't belong to this century, let alone this decade. Laura is reaching back in time, and some of the songs contained on this album haven't been recorded for more than fifty years. This is music from the '40s and '50s, with even new songs chosen deliberately that sit within that style. She can gently sway in the bossa nova beat of An Occasional Man or slow it right down and be the sultry smooth singer reminiscent of the likes of Julie London. Laura's father was Billy Ainsworth, who played sax in big bands, and the early exposure to soft and classic jazz has obviously had a major impact. Close your eyes, and drift into a different world. Kev Rowland, Gonzo Weekly

Ainsworths father played with Sam Butera, so this retro revival thing is in her blood legit and sometimes it just doesnt pay to fight what you are. With another lounge revival swinging our way, shes right at the forefront of the revival, unearthing worthy songs that havent been recorded in the last 50 years, which culls her from the rest of the diva pack that think it all begins and ends with Cole Porter. Loesser, Mercer, lets bring them all back

Streaming like a comet out of Texas, this gal is all gal and proud of it to the tips of her opera length gloves. A must for jazzbo vocal fans.- Chris Spector, MidwestRecord.com

This is an album that is fun from start to finish, sung with just the right approach by Ainsworth, with support by a hip band led by pianist and arranger Brian Piper. It is a smile-inducing winner!- Joe Lang, Jersey Jazz

Laura Ainsworths Third Album Sparkles Like Champagne

When Dallas lounge singer Laura Ainsworth releases an albumyou have to sit at home imagining the tinkling of ice cubes in a highball (or, just as legitimately, make a cocktail yourself and create your own ambiance)Her voice, a satiny ribbon that seems to flow as an uninterrupted river of downbeats, is rich and distinctive, but its her sense of humor that catches you note after noteOne savvy decision is the selection of a fairly obscure set of standards to tackle here (of the 13 tracks, only three the lead-off Thats How I Got My Start by Frank Loesser, Where Did The Magic Go? and a Kern/Gershwin mashup of Long Ago and Far Away will be widely familiar). The great advantage of that, of course, is that every song can still surprise you the lyrics, the licks, the sentiments.New Vintageis an album of reinvention, both feet planted in the present, but forever looking back. - Arnold Wayne Jones,Dallas Voice