(Wounded Bird Records), featuring backing from the Brecker Brothers on the title track, with executive producer Andreas Neumann and producer Bernard Grobman. Also in 2005, she re- leased an album, Soul Classics, with executive producers Rick Blaskey and Andreas Neumann. It was a collection of the most celebrated soul tracks chosen by listeners of her BBC Radio 2 programme Soul Solutions. She travelled to Australia for a few months to do some live performances at the Basement in Sydney.[2] Paris can also be found duetting on the track “Run” with Jimmy Barnes on his 2005 Double Happiness album.
Paris collaborated with Lemar on the track “Can’t You See” on his album The Truth About Love in 2006. In February 2008 she released the duet “Secret Lovers” with Alexander O’Neal. This was followed by a residency at the Indigo 02.
Paris’ latest album, Born Again, was released in June 2009. She embarked on a nationwide tour, which included sell out dates at the Jazz Cafe in February 2009 to showcase her upcoming material. The album was produced by Brian Rawling. James Morrison wrote Paris’ first single, “Baby Come Back Now”. Paris released the second single from Born Again, on 17 August 2009. The track “The Hardest Thing” was remixed by
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A New Beginning is clear in its intent: it is a love poem, both to McComb’s wife and to his God. And it is the latter that provides the album’s biggest surprise and enables its transcendence. The disc begins and ends with the short intro and outro called “King of Kings,” but it is what comes in between that displays Macomb’s mature and full embrace of his spirituality. In no place is that expressed better than on “Deed to My Heart,” a simply gorgeous song that
Paris performed at various venues prior to the release from the album in March 2010 of the title track “Born Again”.
Paris was the special guest of Boyz II Men on their 20th anniversary UK tour in May 2010.
RECOMMENDED ALBUM
FEBRUARY 2011 FRANK McCOMB A NEW BEGINNING
combines a thankful spirit with an unreserved surrender to God: “I opened my heart for you to live in / thanks for waking me up over and over again...I opened my mind for you to feed it / the food of knowledge because I need
it...Now I give you control of my soul so that where you lead I’m committed to follow.” The song is striking in its unreserved faith and McComb sings it with beautiful sincerity.
The album is just as convincing on its more earthly love songs. “Since I Said I Do” is a great midtempo cut that celebrates the daily joys of being a husband, and on “Open My Heart” McComb melodically lays down all barriers toward a woman with whom he is in love. “Wouldn’t Trade You At All” is a more unconventional - even sarcastically funny - track that is less overtly romantic, but which hits the right ultimate note of love even in the day to day grind of married life. Maybe the best of these, however, is the ambivalent “And Now I’m Fighting,” a song of regret for past betrayal of both a woman and God, but with an expressed hope that there is still time for both wrongs to be righted. Branford Marsalis’ guest appearance provides even more melancholy to this track, and the results are moving.
I was a believer that McComb’s The Truth was one of the great albums of the last decade. But
A New Beginning, with McComb serving as singer, songwriter, producer, record company executive and virtual one man band, may surpass it and all else that has come before from this talented artist. Perhaps everything really does happen for a reason and the twists and turns that have characterized Frank McComb’s career are the basis for what he expresses on A New Beginning. But, regardless of the reason, it is clear that A New Beginning is a career album - a Tour de Force that uniquely combines McComb’s celebrated voice with both memorable tunes and stunning lyrical depth. And it just as clearly affirms Frank McComb as one of the premiere soul artists of his generation.
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