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Our Day

by John Dokes

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  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Our Day. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases May 10, 2024

      $15 USD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Beautifully packaged vintage style vinyl. Strictly limited pressing run of 100 copies worldwide. Exclusive liner notes by legendary journalist Ted Panken.

    Includes digital pre-order of Our Day. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 10, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $25 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Features liner notes by Ted Panken, photos by Jacob Blickenstaff and design by Ian Hendrickson-Smith

    Includes digital pre-order of Our Day. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 10, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 USD or more 

     

1.
Our Day Will Come 05:01
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Our day will come And we'll have everything We'll share the joy Falling in love can bring No one can tell us That we're too young to know I love you so And you love me Our day will come If we just wait a while No tears for us Think love and wear a smile Our dreams have magic Because we'll always stay in love this way Our day will come Our day will come And we'll have everything We'll share the joy Falling in love can bring No one can tell us That we're too young to know I love you so And you love me Our day will come If we just wait a while No tears for us Think love and wear a smile Our dreams have magic Because we'll always stay in love this way Our day will come
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Moanin'
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Suddenly
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Almost Like Being In Love
5.
I Will Wait For You
6.
On The Red Clay
7.
L-O-V-E
8.
Don't Blame Me
9.
This Can't Be Love 03:57
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This can't be love, because I feel so well, No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs. This can't be love; I get no dizzy spells, My head is not in the skies. My heart does not stand still, just hear it beat. This is too sweet to be love. This can't be love, because I feel so well, But still I love to look in your eyes. My heart does not stand still, just hear it beat. This is too sweet to be love. This can't be love, because I feel so well, But still I love to look in your eyes. Still I love to look in your eyes.
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Everything Must Change

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The final track of John Dokes’ marvelous new album is his impassioned rendition of Bernard Ighner’s ballad, “Everything Must Change.” Proceeding at a brighter tempo than Quincy Jones framed the composer’s own vocal with on the song’s 1974 premiere, Dokes deploys his rich, mellow toned baritone to convey the poignant message of bittersweet acceptance that change is inevitable (“Nothing stays the same... Winter turns to spring, Broken hearts will heal. But never much too soon, They all must change”) with the elegant gravitas and inexorable will to swing that earned him an enthusiastic fan base during the 2010s, when he fronted George Gee’s Swing Orchestra every week before an audience comprised of New York’s most hardcore swing dancers and jazz fans from around the world.

Those characteristics also permeated Dokes’ excellent quintet albums Forever Reasons (2017) and True Love (2019), which featured trombonist David Gibson and alto saxophonist Mark Gross, respectively, as soloists, with an A-list rhythm section of pianist Steve Einerson, bassist Alex Claffy, and drummer Lawrence Leathers. At the end of my booklet notes for True Love, I commented that Dokes intended to follow up with yet another small group recital.

Then everything changed. In June 2019, Leathers died. In March 2020, Covid-19 put public performance on indefinite hiatus. In March 2021, Dokes, who’d spent most of his adult life in New York, moved to Chicago with his wife and two daughters. “On my periodic trips to New York since the move, I’ve sung with George’s band and done small group dates,” he says. . “My first album was a big band album with George (John Dokes Sings, George Gee Swings); I always knew I’d make another. So when I knew I’d be in New York last May, I worked with George and David to bring together guys from the band to record songs we’ve been doing – and doing well – for years, but hadn’t documented.”

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releases May 10, 2024

Our Day Will Come
solos: Hendrix, Einerson
Moanin'
solos: Nelson, Gibson
Suddenly
solo: Gravish
Almost Like Being In Love
solos: Nelson, Einerson
I Will Wait For You
solo: Hashim
Red Clay
solo: Higgins
L-O-V-E
solo: Gravish
Don't Blame Me
solo: Einerson
This Can't Be Love
solos: Hendrix, Einerson
Everything Must Change
solo: Gibson

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John Dokes Chicago, Illinois

With inspiration from his stylistic ancestors Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, John Dokes brings new life to the deep-souled world of baritone jazz vocals on his elegant new album, Our Day on his Swing Theory Entertainment imprint.

In delivering a distinctive post-pandemic outing of classic songs embodied with hopeful passion, Dokes promises an album that will make you move.” ... more

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