'Moonray' - coming soon from James Hudson

British vocalist James Hudson is set to release his second album - Moonray - with the ambitious Artie Shaw title track providing a stunning, creative arrangement.

Following up on James's debut album and the latest single Feed The Birds, his voice cuts through the noise with a clarity and substance alongside beautiful arrangements.

James isn't afraid to give his musicians space to breathe their own life into these classic songs, with evocative and expressive solos and sectional passages.

Arranger and sax player (with some gorgeous bass clarinet thrown in) Tom Smith has worked brilliantly with James's voice to arrange these tracks so Moonray is an album full of light and shade.

A jazz rhythm section - Joe Hill (piano), Jack Tustin (bass), Luke Tomlinson (drums) and Nick Fitch (guitar) - is enhanced by Smith's sax, Tom Walsh (trumpet/flugelhorn) and Ralph Wyld (vibraphone). A string quintet adds delicious texture to this collection of sometimes unusual jazz standards  Cole Porter sits alongside Mile Davis and Jon Hendricks, plus Hoagy Carmichael's The Nearness of You and Rodgers & Hart's Sing For Your Supper.

Moonray will quickly make it onto the playlists of many once it is released - sign up with James now to get your copy.