Oyster Love is the second CD by the hugely talented singer/song-writer Helen Sheppard. Her
first CD Hello Tomorrow released in autumn 2003 got an enthusiastic
reception from the media, and her courage to ignore the standard
songbook and go her own way was widely noticed by reviewers. Less
than a year since the release of her first CD, Helen Sheppard comes
up with twelve new songs, some of which are destined to become jazz
standards. Again, her songs and her magnificent voice are instantly
identifiable, but her second CD is closer to jazz than the first
one, partly because she is accompanied by a band of brightest young
talents on the conte jazz scene: Zoe Rahman on piano, Andy Coleman
on trumpet and flugel-horn, Riaan Vosloo on bass, and Pat Illingworth
on drums.
1. The Baraka
2. Oyster Love
3. When You're in Love
4. Brown Lady
5. The Key
6. Three Wise Monkeys
7. Catching Dynamite
8. Only You
9. Emily Louise
10. Let the Day Slip By
11. Stay
12. Long Time No See
