Out Of A Dream
Trisha O'Brien
Azica Records

Trisha O'Brien was a mainstay on the local jazz scene before she took the big steps and moved on to New York City and Florida five years ago.

Her new release Out of a Dream on Azica Records features fourteen mostly romantic standards, backed with a four piece band of jazz pros including Shellly Berg on piano, Peter Washington on bass, Lewis Nash on drums, and Ken Peplowski on tenor sax. Both Berg and Peplowski are long time Cleveland players and Nighttown regulars. Another Cleveland connection on the album is producer Elaine Morton, who has done many things at Telarc Records in Beachwood.

The disk has a great feel to it, with the band giving just enough support to allow O'Brien's voice to carry each tune. The disk opens with a great version of Nat King Cole's "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup," and ends with the Sinatra standard "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning." In between is nothing but good things, including wonderful versions of "Taking a Chance on Love," "Let's Face the Music and Dance," and "Everybody Loves My Baby."

Trisha O'Brien will be appearing on television and radio on Tuesday, March 2, on both the Fox Morning Show on Channel 8 and on "Around Noon" on WCPN. A Cleveland concert is in the works for this June. For more about Trisha O'Brien and her music visit http://www.trishaobrien.com.

Greg Cielec is a local writer who covers mostly music and sports for a variety of publications and websites. He is also a full time English and creative writing teacher at Streetsboro High School; an adjunct professor at BGSU Firelands College and Lakeland Community College; and a football coach at John Carroll University.

He has published two books of fiction, My Cleveland Story (1998) and Home and Away Games (2006), and the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Michael Heaton has called him “the Mark Twain of Cleveland.” Check out his website and blog at http://www.GregCielec.com.