Every Time I Think of You
A virtuoso called by the All Music Guide to Jazz "an unsung hero of the acoustic piano," Alan Broadbent has been widely recognized for his sideman and arranging work. He worked on two orchestra albums with Diana Krall, as well as served as her musical director; he has been an integral member of Charlie Haden's film noir project Quartet West; and most recently he's been conducting the 52-piece Metropole Orkest touring with Elvis Costello supporting his CD, Live With the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Burns Blue.Broadbent, a New Zealand native based in Los Angeles, has an impressive resume working in bands led by Woody Herman, Nelson Riddle and Henry Mancini as well as on Grammy Award-winning albums (he won best arrangement honors in 1997 for the song "When I Fall in Love" by Natalie Cole and in 2000 for "Lonely Town" by Quartet West with Shirley Horn). As a solo artist, he has recorded widely, including the noteworthy Live at Maybeck Hall solo piano album in 1991 for Concord Records and has been twice Grammy-nominated for Best Instrumental Solo on You and the Night and the Music, and ‘Round Midnight on Artistry Music.As for Every Time I Think of You, Broadbent says the album "combines my playing and my writing, especially with the most expressive of instruments, the string orchestra," that he feels works like a collective fourth person on the disc. "Usually the strings sweeten songs with the chords playing in the background," he says. "But I like using the strings expressively like how Stan Getz used them on his early '60s album Focus."