Emily Saxe

Keeping You In Mind is co-produced by Piltch and Saxe and mixed by Grammy Award-winner Jay Newland (who co-produced Norah Jones’s Come Away With Me). The sessions were rounded out by an impressive cast of players, including Piltch on acoustic bass, Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, Brian Wilson, Shawn Colvin and countless others) on steel guitar, Jay Bellerose (Paula Cole, Cassandra Wilson, T Bone Burnett, Ani DiFranco) on percussion, keyboardist Patrick Warren (Fiona Apple, Tracy Chapman, Sam Phillips), and Juno Award-winning guitarist Rob Piltch. The arrangements are jazzy morsels of contemporary Americana, with rootsy instruments and hypnotic rhythms replacing the piano/bass/drums lineup from Emily’s first three albums. Clearly, Emily is once again singing the music in her soul.
October 15, 2007 Emily to Perform at Lincoln Center and the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts Emily will be performing at the Allen Room at Lincoln Center on April 4 and the Samueli Theatre at the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts on April 18 and 19.
Stay tuned for more performance dates!!!
October 12, 2007 Busy Month of Radio Interviews Emily has had a busy month of radio interviews so far… WPKN 89.5 FM in Bridgeport CT, KCMN 1530 AM in Colorado Springs, WDVR 89.7 FM in New Jersey, .."The Jazz Cafe.." on WRHU 88.7 FM on Long Island. and WSRQ in Sarasota Florida. Emily will appear on the nationally syndicated Bill Miller Show later this week.
September 28, 2007 Great Radio Response to Walk on By Continues The single Walk on By from Keeping You In Mind is currently being aired on over 40 jazz, smooth jazz and adult contemporary radio stations across North America. Europe and Australia. To date, tracks from Keeping You In Mind have played on over 150 radio stations, in markets from New York to San Francisco, to Toronto, Boston, and Berlin, running the gamut from AAA, to jazz, to folk, to blues to adult contemporary. (Please see radio station comments at end of this section)
September 6, 2007 Great review from Talkin Broadway .."rich music that expresses a grown-up vision of life and love… should appeal to a wide range of music fans….."
See entire review at http://talkinbroadway.com/sound/sept0607.html
September 5, 2006 Great review today from GirlSingers.org .."Miss Saxe is very, very good...very highly recommended..."
See the entire review at http://girlsingers.org/reviews/saxe.html
April 7, 2007 PS Classics announced today that it has signed Emily Saxe to the PS Classics label. Tommy Krasker, President of PS Classics, stated that .."Emily is a unique talent, and we are thrilled to have her at PS Classics. We look forward to releasing her new CD, Keeping You In Mind, at the end of August..." Founded in 2000 by Tommy Krasker & Philip Chaffin, and twice Grammy-nominated, PS Classics has been profiled in publications such as The New York Times and Variety for its diverse line of solo albums and cast recordings. Its solo albums range from jazz (Jessica Molaskey: Sitting in Limbo) to folk (Rebecca Luker: Leaving Home), from pop (Jane Olivor: Safe Return) to show music (Grey Gardens and Company). PS Classics is distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment. For more information, visit http://psclassics.com
Radio Program Director and DJ Comments on Keeping You in Mind
Radio Mike (Syndicated) -- .."...[Emily Saxe's] latest is Alternative Jazz Pop with flourishes of Country, a delicious combination that never ceases to amaze us. She's even managed to snag the amazing Greg Leisz on a few tracks. When we don't think it can get any better, it actually does..."
WTUL New Orleans -- .."IT IS FABULOUS! Her voice is so voluptuous. Everybody needs more Saxe & violins in their life. I'm crazy about the entire album!.."
WQUB Chicago -- .."Like it a lot…very mellow, worked out sound, almost Brazilian guitar sound in parts & hints of Jobim to it…Love it and have used all of it already..."
KMUW Wichita -- .."Outstanding voice..."
CKXU Canada -- .."3 on our jazz charts last week, pretty cool CD.."
WRHU New York -- ..“playing….GREAT FEEL..”
WMVR Monroe -- ..“WOW!!..”
KALA Davenport -- ..“playin it…lovin it…..great listener response..”
WNTI New York/New Jersey -- .."We love Invitation To A Dance, and would like to interview Emily..."
Keep checking this page for upcoming concert dates!
Emily Saxe (say it like there’s no “e”), an American who issued her previous albums while living in Bangkok, Thailand, is back home again and thrilled to be delivering Keeping You In Mind, her fourth CD and first in the U.S.
“Music has always been a huge part of my life,” says Emily. “My great-grandfather was a traveling musician (I still have his ‘portable’ pump organ!), my grandfather wrote a hit song with Johnny Mercer, and my mother is a fabulous classical jazz and classical pianist in her own right. I spent years studying classical and jazz piano, but what really drew me in was my mother’s sheet music collection; we basically had The Great American Songbook stacked on the family piano. I spent hours and hours losing myself in those tunes, and I realized what I really wanted to do was sing.” And sing she did, performing every chance she got during high school and college at Yale, including playing piano bar. “Now there’s a real learning experience,” she laughs, “singing, playing and fending off drunks, all at the same time!”
After college, Emily switched directions, getting a law degree from Georgetown and leaving singing behind. But in 1995, when Emily followed her husband to Thailand, she finally decided to follow her heart. “If you’re really a musician, it just pursues you,” she says. “It never leaves your soul.” Emily released three CDs in that part of the world, each one her reinterpretation of legendary songwriters like the Gershwins, Harold Arlen, Rodgers & Hart, and others. And they ate it up from Australia to Japan, leading to performances at the Sydney Opera House and other top Asian venues, as well as to two of her albums going Top 10 in jazz in Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok. “I never expected it, but Asia was a great place to restart my music career,” offers Emily. “I was fortunate enough to hook up with some great musicians, people loved my music, and I was able to perform at some fabulous venues and get to know a fascinating part of the world.”
Since her return to the U.S., Emily has been re-imagining herself. “I’ve spent the last several years thinking, ‘What material do I want to do and what do I want it to sound like?’” The answer came when she hooked up with bassist David Piltch, who, along with arranging, writing and playing on many Holly Cole records, has also recorded and written songs with k.d. lang for more than a decade.
Saxe and Piltch connected straight away, and it was this collaboration that led to the sound for this new album. “David basically said, ‘Get the piano out of the room.’ It was such a revelation,” Emily admits, “because I grew up playing the piano, my mother plays the piano, my grandfather played the piano. David suggested I try a guitar-based sound, which was just a radical shift for me. It changed my whole approach, really softening everything and giving the songs a much more introspective feel. It gets me to the heart of the lyric in a different way.”