discography

This year she releases REUNION an album with her long time friend and fellow jazz singer from Australia, Ingrid James. The girls sang together many years ago when they were both starting out in Brisbane, and have always stayed in contact.

2009 LIKE MINDS
On this album Trudy is accompanied by the respected British jazz pianist Michael Garrick and it is mostly a duo album. It mainly features songs composed by Duke Ellington but given a  more contemporary feel, and also includes some of Michael's original compositions.

2007 DEJA VU
This themed concept album is based on songs that have a significant link to Trudy's past. Geoff Gascoyne again did the arrangements and Trudy is accompanied by the Swedish pianist Jan  Lundgren. Trudy wrote the lyric to Dave Holland's 'Dream of the Elders' and this album features the Juno String Quartet on various tracks and features Bob Dorough on his original composition 'Up Jumped a Bird'.

2006 JAZZ FOR JUNIORS
The CD is to introduce children to jazz and features children's voices. It's a mixture of songs Trudy learned as she was growing up, given the jazz treatment. The majority of songs are still used in the show JAZZ FOR JUNIORS which Trudy regularly performs throughout the UK at Festivals and in schools.

2005 CLOUDBURST
The inspiration for this album came from John Coltrane's 'Moment's Notice'. She felt an entire album of material from the instrumental jazz repertoire would be an interesting and challenging concept and would pay tribute to those great jazz solos.  She used Jon Hendricks' vocalese for most of the songs, but wrote her own vocalese for 'Moment's Notice" and a Gerry Mulligan tune,'Bunny'.

2002 MY OLD FLAME
A tribute album to Chet Baker featuring songs that Chet recorded vocally plus tunes performed with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet featuring special guest Georgie Fame.

2000 DAY DREAM
This album of jazz standards arranged by Geoff Gascoyne was recorded with the great American pianist Mulgrew Miller.

1999 TRUDY
Standards from the Great American Song Book and songs from artists such as James Taylor and Carole King.

1997 SWEET SURPRISE
A mix of lesser-known standards and some pop classics arranged in a contemporary jazz style.