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Seth MacFarlane

Blue Skies

Verve Label Group / Republic Records
Release Date: May 20, 2022

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No Moon At All
1 It's You or No One  
2 No Moon At All  
3 You'll Get Yours  
4 A Hundred Years From Today  
5 If I Were A Bell  
6 Out of Nowhere  
7 On Green Dolphin Street  
8 That Old Feeling  
9 Blue Skies  
10 It Could Happen to You  
11 I Didn't Know About You  
12 You Turned The Tables On Me  
13 Never In A Million Years  
14 Unless I Do It All With You  
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Multi-Grammy nominated singer, Seth MacFarlane, announces his 7th studio album, Blue Skies (Verve/Republic) set for release on May 20th. The 14-track collection of swinging tunes showcases acclaimed arranger and conductor Andrew Cottee’s deft take on an uptempo album full of modern big band jazz orchestrations.  The first track off the upbeat set is the classic jazz standard, “No Moon At All.” You can listen to the song and pre-order the album here. You can watch the accompanying lyric video here.

Recorded at the celebrated Abbey Road studios, Blue Skies features an all-star group of musicians enlisted by MacFarlane including Chuck Berghofer (Bass), Peter Erskine (Drums), Larry Koonse (Guitar), Dan Higgins (Alto Sax), and Tom Ranier (piano). Together, with longtime friend, collaborator, and producer, Joel McNeely, and superb engineer, Rich Breen, the album covers compositions by musical writing luminaries that include Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Edward Heyman and Frank Loesser.

MacFarlane has released six studio albums: Music Is Better Than Words, Holiday For Swing, No One Ever Tells You, In Full Swing, Once In A While and Great Songs From Stage & Screen. Critically lauded, these albums garnered MacFarlane several No. 1 debuts on the iTunes Jazz Charts and a total of six Grammy nominations. MacFarlane has also performed with the legendary composer John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl, duetted with Barbra Streisand and joined numerous celebrated symphonies including Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, and the National Symphony Orchestra.

  • Seth McFarlane's swinging big band arrangement of 'No Moon at All' makes 'JAZZIZ Editors Choice'
    Posted At: May 9, 2022 12:00 AM
    Multi-Grammy nominated singer, Seth MacFarlane, announces his 7th studio album, Blue Skies (Verve/Republic) set for release on May 20th. The 14-track collection of swinging tunes showcases acclaimed arranger and conductor Andrew Cottee’s deft take on an uptempo album full of modern big band jazz orchestrations.  The first track off the upbeat set is the classic jazz standard, “No Moon At All.” You can ...
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  • Seth MacFarlane handles the standards par excellence on 'Once In A While' / Jazz Weekly
    Posted At: June 3, 2019 12:00 AM

    Actor and crooner Seth MacFarlane takes the next logical step in his singing career with a bel canto collection of torch songs with strings, woodwinds and brass. The "Dream Team" Orchestra handles the standards par excellence, as does MacFarlane, giving wanderlust treatment to "Half As Lovely (Twice As Nice)" and the nostalgic "The Things We Did Last Summer." Some warm trumpet brings some hip atmosphere ...
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  • Seth MacFarlane possesses a warm velvety timbre on 'Once In A While' / THE STRAITS TIMES
    Posted At: May 31, 2019 12:00 AM

    Multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Seth MacFarlane releases a jazz album like clockwork every two years. Fans who have been following his discography know what to expect: a ballad-heavy programme delivered in his warm baritone, cosseted in lush big-band arrangements. There is no crime in sticking to a winning formula. He possesses a warm velvety timbre and one suspects he is a little too in love with ...
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  • Seth MacFarlane - In Full Swing, making lovers of the great american songbook very happy / Stage & Cinema
    Posted At: December 24, 2017 12:00 AM

    I got a chance to catch Seth MacFarlane with orchestra at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa last night, and it's clear that this handsome, dapper, multi-talented artist isn't just making his fan base happy, he's making both the lovers of the Great American Songbook and the musicians in the band very very happy. I can't think of anyone in the recording industry with MacFarlane's resources who is devot...
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  • 'In Full Swing,' Seth MacFarlane is more than just a Family Guy / bebop spoken here
    Posted At: December 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    Seth MacFarlane is more than just a Family Guy, to quote the title of the TV show he's perhaps best known for - in the eyes of Joe Public. However, in the more discerning eyes and ears of the Bebop Spoken Here readership, MacFarlane is much more. He's just about the classiest male vocalist around at present. Is he a jazz singer? Was Sinatra, Astaire or Crosby? Are Bublé or Bennett? Who car...
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  • Will Seth MacFarlane finally win his first GRAMMY? / Washington Post
    Posted At: November 29, 2017 12:00 AM

    ONE OF these years, Seth MacFarlane, as a cartooning crooner, is going to bag a Grammy Award that can rest next to his row of Emmys. And on Tuesday, MacFarlane again showed that his best shot at landing a Grammy might come from interpreting midcentury standards from the American songbook. The "Family Guy" creator received his fifth career nod when the 60th annual Grammy nominations were announced this mo...
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