AMERICAN IDOL: Where Are They Now?- 
People Magazine recently released a special issue “American Idol” Where are They Now”? It is a yearbook-like edition that takes a look at every finalist from the first ten years. Anna and duet partner, Matt Giraud are featured on page 92, with Anna rocking Matt’s signature chapeau. The article praises their No. 1 download, “You Don’t Know Me” on the iTunes jazz chart. Available for purchase at AMAZON.com. CLICK HERE to learn more .
BY JIM MISUNAS
jmisunas@gbtribune.com
Singer Anna Wilson from Nashville and pianist Jeff Franzel from Manhattan, N.Y. warm up Tuesday at the Great Bend Municipal Auditorium.
…When jazz artist Anna Wilson was searching for the right songwriter, Franzel’s name was mentioned. It’s been a match made in heaven ever since they met….
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Midland Reporter-Telegram
March 22, 2012
By Georgia Temple
Entertainment Editor
Singer Anna Wilson found her place in music by merging her present with her past.
“I grew up with my mom playing piano in the house, and her repertoire was largely the Great American Songbook and road tunes so I really got that sense of melody and style,” Wilson said in a telephone interview with the Reporter-Telegram. “As I got older and pursued other genres, I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter and a country artist, I thought. By being around that world and doing it for a while, I realized that wasn’t what suited me best.” READ ARTICLE
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by Chuck Dauphin, Nashville | October 05, 2011 3:30 EDT
…”Easy” was not the only collaboration from Rascal Flatts in 2011. They also were a part of Anna Wilson’s Countrypolitan Duets release, adding their harmonies to “You’re The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me,” with Ray Price.
“We’re huge fans of Ray Price to begin with, but Anna Wilson is a dear friend,” Jay says. Her husband and I write together all the time. He told me ‘We’re doing this project,’ and we love in Anna and believe in what she’s doing. It was a wonderful idea to meld jazz and Country together. We were excited to be a part of it.”…
Country Music People reviews Anna’s new CD, Countrypolitan Duets and gives it a four-star rating!
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Nashville Arts & Entertainment
2011-12 Edition
Mention Anna Wilson’s name around town and you will likely hear, “THE Jazz singer.” Arguably Nashville’s most acclaimed jazz singer, Wilson has produced a unique musical offering this year fusing a little bit of country and a whole lot of Jazz in her new project, Countrypolitan Duets. The word “countrypolitan” originated as a Nashville sound–a type of country music engineered by Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley incorporating string sections instead of banjos and fiddles. It was revolutionary then and remains so now.
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July-August 2011 Issue
07/05/11
Christopher Loudon
Plenty of fans along both sides of the jazz-country divide would insist that the two genres are as far apart as fatback and foie gras. But vocalists Anna Wilson and Diane Schuur are hoping to alter that perception with likeminded though distinct new albums. Wilson’s Countrypolitan Duets (Music World), populated with a string of special guests that extends from legends Ray Price, Connie Smith and Kenny Rogers to contemporary stars Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum, blends the lush Nashville Sound of the 1960s with swing across 10 country classics and one original tune. Schuur’s more subdued The Gathering (Vanguard) features covers of 10 vintage hurtin’ songs, and includes appearances by Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Mark Knopfler and Kirk Whalum.
Though the Nashville-based Wilson has never recorded country songs before, she has written hits for the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus and Reba McEntire. “I’m a bit of a fish out of water,” she laughs. “I love singing jazz but writing country songs.” On previous jazz albums, Wilson focused almost exclusively on original songs. “People started saying they’d like to hear me do something familiar,” she says. “I wanted to do it in a unique and compelling way. I thought that if we took great country songs built around simple chord structures and augmented them with all the sophistication of jazz, we could still maintain the core of the songs but present them in innovative ways. I wanted to demonstrate that country and jazz are not that far apart.”
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Wilson taps into Nashville’s so-called “Countrypolitan” era with the help of past and present country stars and two contemporary jazz giants. She gives a big band treatment to “Walkin’ After Midnight,” featuring the Grammy-winning trio Lady Antebellum.
Wilson explains that Countrypolitan is rooted in “The Nashville Sound,” a style introduced in the late 1950s by artists like Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline and Eddie Arnold.
This is an album of huge cross-over potential. Anna Wilson’s vocals are spot-on and entirely suited to the style, the arrangements are terrific, and if you’ve ever heard a Dinah Shore record you should like this…..Lady Antebellum sounds even more Manhatten Transfer on the Patsy Cline classic ‘Walkin’ After Midnight’…Keith Urban joins Anna Wilson on the much recorded ‘Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues,’ and for me, it’s his finest work since being with The Ranch…” —- DUNCAN WARWICK
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