Start spreading the news that Tyrone Noonan and his jazz project Palimpsest will be presenting their Frank Sinatra tribute show, 'One For My Baby', at Doo-Bop Jazz Bar (Brisbane) in July.
Easily one of the most celebrated male vocalists of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra maintains an enduring legacy among contemporary performers including Tyrone.
“I think Frank was really good at picking songs, he's got such a great catalogue of songs that he chose to sing,” Tyrone says.
“This album is going to be quite political overall, which hopefully people are ready for that kind of music again.” - Tyrone Noonan
“He wasn't a songwriter himself, but he was a great song selector and his phrasing is just insane.”
A long-time fan of Frank's work in both music and film, Tyrone says the Sinatra tribute show was partly inspired by one of his cabaret show projects that explores the benefits of music therapy in treating patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
“There's a documentary called 'Alive Inside' where they went to a lot of nursing homes and found the most comatose patients, found out as much as they could about them – in particular what kind of music they like and what era.
“Then they'd get an iPod with some headphones and allow the patients to listen to this music and you see a lot of these patients literally come back to life, start talking and reliving experiences.
“So the [cabaret] show is based around this guy in a nursing home who is all alone and he becomes a recipient of the headphones.
"He slowly comes back to life, talking about hanging out with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack guys and performing in Las Vegas. The staff at the hospital at first think he's making all this sh*t up, but then they start researching and finding out that it's all legit.”
Tyrone performs 'One For My Baby' accompanied by his Palimpsest bandmates Wil Sargisson (piano), Rich Seymour (drums) and AJ Hall (bass).
He is also currently putting the finishing touches on his next solo album, which at this point has the working title of 'Utopia'. “This album, by looks of it, it's going to be quite political overall, which I think hopefully people are ready for that kind of music again,” he says.
“It feels like it's timely with the state of the world. Although I'm not sure if anyone could have summed it up better than Father John Misty's 'Pure Comedy', which came out of course before Trump but now seems like it couldn’t have possibly been written before he came to power.
“The album is quite a mixed bag really; the acoustic guitar is driving through all of it, but it moves from folk and roots through to rock and also electronica as well and some groove stuff too.
"There's some stuff on there that's pretty funky. It's a real mix and hopefully it all holds together.”
Palimpsest perform 'One For My Baby – Celebrating Sinatra' at Doo-Bop Jazz Bar (Brisbane) 21 July.
