Product Description "Love and Beauty", a new CD where Boston's Stan Strickland steps front and center as featured vocalist, is now available on the Hawkline Records label. "Strickland is one of the best vocalists we have," says Eric Jackson, host of "Eric in the Evening," Boston's WGBH radio show. Yet this is the first recording to present Strickland's charismatic talent as singer, rather than as the sax and flute man whose gutsy sound and sparkling technique so many Boston listeners and fellow musicians have come to love and respect. This first vocal CD features Strickland's incredible range of style and vocal sound, with cuts like "But Beautiful" emphasizing his jazz artistry, to "The More I See You" adding loving elements of soul and funk to the mix. As Eric Jackson puts it, "...tune after tune invites the listener to move and dance." About the Artist Key "Stan Strickland" into any search engine, and you'll get plenty of hits for this busy musician, dancer, actor, teacher and recording artist. You'll find he's played horns with the likes of Yusef Lateef, Pharaoh Sanders, Herbie Mann, and the Boston Pops. He's toured in such far-flung places as Holland, Russia, India, New Zealand and the Caribbean. He's been featured, again as horn man, on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Erlich, Mama Tongue, Webster Lewis and more. You'll also get lots of hits about Stan in his other guises. (And you'll wonder, can all these be about the same man? The answer is yes.) Stan holds regular teaching gigs at Berklee, Longy, Tufts and Express Yourself, a program for special needs kids. His one-man stage show, "Coming Up For Air - An Autojazzography", a collaboration with writer/director John Lipsky, just had its debut in March (2005) with Boston Playwright's Theatre at Boston University. And we could go on...