Connie Lansberg – “Aeroplane”

Connie Lansberg is a Melbourne-based jazz vocalist with over 12 million Spotify streams, the highest of any jazz artist in Australia. Her new album Aeroplane is out now, and the title track is where it all begins.

She recorded it with Brad Rabuchin, the guitarist who spent the last five years of Ray Charles’s touring life on stage beside him. Rabuchin has also played with Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, and Tom Jones. You might expect someone with that history to fill every inch of a recording with sound. He does the opposite, and it works.

“Aeroplane” opens a record that’s voice and guitar only. No band. No layers of production. The whole album came out of one rehearsal and eight hours in Nolan Shaheed’s studio in Pasadena. That’s a short runway for an album, and yet nothing about it sounds rushed or underdone. Lansberg’s vocal delivery is clean and precise, the kind where the quietness of the arrangement puts everything she does right in front of you.

The story of how these two ended up together is genuinely strange. Connie once walked into a blues gig and asked to sit in. She sang “Georgia on My Mind” with the house guitarist, not knowing he’d spent years playing that exact song on tour with Ray Charles. That was Rabuchin. Years later she spotted him playing a club in Ventura, walked up, and asked him to record with her.

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