"Bésame Mucho" - The Airmen of Note Featuring Diane Schuur, Ted Nash and Sean Jones

Brought to you by The United States Air Force Band’s Airmen of Note, this is the Jazz Heritage Series! Today’s installment features all three of the ‘Note’s esteemed guests: vocalist extraordinaire Diane Schuur, the inimitable Sean Jones on trumpet, and saxophone great Ted Nash. Together, they’re featured on this hard-driving, Reggie Watkins arrangement of a classic that has been catalogued as one of the most popular tunes of all time, worldwide.

Released almost exactly twenty years ago in late September 2001, “Swingin’ for Schuur” is an iconic recording collaboration between jazz superstars Diane Schuur and Maynard Ferguson, with Big Bop Nouveau. Appearing on that album is this well-known Latin musical sensation, established as one of the most important hymns in the history of Latin music. Its beautiful, haunting melody was officially recognized in 1999 as the single most covered and recorded Spanish song in history, the English lyrics heard here added by Sunny Skylar. Listen as, joining the ‘Note and featuring Mr. Sean Jones and Mr. Ted Nash, Ms. Diane Schuur makes all her own this stunning take on Consuelo Velázquez’s timeless 1940 smash hit, “Bésame Mucho.”

"Bésame Mucho"
by Consuelo Velázquez /arr. Reggie Watkins

The U.S. Air Force Band's Airmen of Note
featuring special guests:
Diane Schuur - Vocals
Ted Nash - Alto Saxophone
Sean Jones - Trumpet

Credits
Colonel Don Schofield - Executive Producer
Senior Master Sgt. Emily Wellington - Producer/Videographer
Master Sgt. (ret.) Rich Sigler - Audio Producer/Mixing Engineer
Master Sgt. Luke Brandon - Music Director/Assistant Audio Producer
Technical Sgts. Jim Woolf and Pedro Ramírez-Rodríguez - Recording Engineers
Senior Master Sgt. Jim DeVaughn - Assistant Recording Engineer
Bob Dawson - Recording Consultant
Master Sgt. Tim Hilgert - Videographer/Video Editor
Master Sgt. Jeremy Koch - Artist Relations

*Special thanks to:
Staff Sgt. Joshua Kauffman - The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own"

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