


Diana Panton's voice is as fresh as a daisy, enchanting in its directness, and perfectly suited to the songs she's chosen. There's a child in each of us, and Panton and her longtime musical companions have that child in the palm of their musical hand.
・featured on NPR radio
・2019 Best Audiophile Recording Nominee
at the Rocky Mountain International HiFi
Press Awards
・2017 JUNO Best Children's Album (CAN)
・****! DOWNBEAT Best Albums of 2016
・School Library Journal Top 10 Albums of 2016
・#1 Jazz Album on Amazon.ca/com
・#1 Movers and Shakers Chart Amazon.com
・#1 Jazz Album iTunes.ca/com
・#1 Jazz Album on Books.com in Taiwan
・#8 BillBoard's Jazz Chart
・#11 BillBoard's Kids Chart
・Top 10 Jazz Bestseller, HMV Japan
・A Parents' Choice Silver Honour Award
・Family Choice Award
・HMA's Best Children's Album of the Year
Katie Malloch

Accolades

・2019 Best Audiophile Recording Nominee
at the Rocky Mountain International HiFi
Press Awards
・2017 JUNO Best Children's Album (CAN)
・****! DOWNBEAT Best Albums of 2016
・School Library Journal Top 10 Albums of 2016
・#1 Jazz Album on Amazon.ca/com
・#1 Movers and Shakers Chart Amazon.com
・#1 Jazz Album iTunes.ca/com
・#1 Jazz Album on Books.com in Taiwan
・#8 BillBoard's Jazz Chart
・#11 BillBoard's Kids Chart
・Top 10 Jazz Bestseller, HMV Japan
・A Parents' Choice Silver Honour Award
・Family Choice Award
・HMA's Best Children's Album of the Year

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"We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through
the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters."
the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters."

Interview on NPR
In Children's Music, Diana Panton Finds A Few Lessons For Adults"The way a child thinks is a good model for us sometimes," Panton says.
Though I Believe In Little Things is her first album for kids,
the jazz musician says she hardly changed her approach.



Songs
1. In A World Of My Own
2. Alice In Wonderland
3. Pure Imagination
4. Imagination
5. Sing
6. I'm Going To Go Back There Someday
7. The Rainbow Connection
8. Little Things
2. Alice In Wonderland
3. Pure Imagination
4. Imagination
5. Sing
6. I'm Going To Go Back There Someday
7. The Rainbow Connection
8. Little Things
9. When You Wish Upon A Star
10. Halfway Down The Stairs
11. Everybody Sleeps
12. Sleep Is A Precious Thing
13. Hushabye Mountain
14. Slumber My Darling
10. Halfway Down The Stairs
11. Everybody Sleeps
12. Sleep Is A Precious Thing
13. Hushabye Mountain
14. Slumber My Darling

Personnel
Diana Panton - vocal
Don Thompson - bass, piano, vibes
Reg Schwager - guitar
Coenraad Bloemendal - cello
Don Thompson - bass, piano, vibes
Reg Schwager - guitar
Coenraad Bloemendal - cello

Acclaim
I Believe in Little Things is a carefully curated album that highlights Diana Panton's enchanting vocals on obscure gems and classic children's masterpieces from Disney, Sesame Street, Willa Wonka and the Chocolate Factory etc. Her sweet pure expression is a hand-in-glove fit for this timeless material. There is a penetrating power to Panton's storytelling of the songs. This, coupled with exemplary recording quality, Don Thompson's delightful jazz arrangements and masterful accompaniment by Thompson, Reg Schwager and Coenraad Bloemendal give new scope to this repertoire. The album was selected as the Best Jazz Album of 2015 by Books.com (Taiwan's equivalent to Amazon.com). It was the third Bestseller of 2015 at Eslite in Hong Kong and landed in the TOP 10 Jazz Bestsellers list of 2015 at HMV, Japan. In 2017, it was still on the Top 5 Bestselling Jazz albums for Books.com (Taiwan's equivalent of Amazon).In 2019, Little Things was nominated for Best Audiophile Recording at the Rocky Mountain International HiFi Press Awards.Diana Panton is one of my favourite jazz singers of the new generation. Her vulnerable, gentle voice has peacefully coaxed me to fall in love with her singing. In addition, the high quality sound of her recording, both detailed and exquisite, is superior to many so-called "audiophile" CDs.
Hong Kong's HiFi Review Magazine

Masahiro Imai, FM Club

Keiichi Konishi, Jazz Japan

Reiji Asakura, Japan's Tokusengai

Kazune Hayata, Japan's Jazz Life

Toshimitsu Uemura, CD Journal

Keizo Takada, Record Collectors

Louis Brunet, CKMN-FM 96,5 Rimouski, Quebec

Hamilton Magazine

David Olds, Editor's Corner, WholeNote Magazine

Graham Rockingham, The Hamilton Spectator

Stefan Shepherd, Zooglobble

Mama Likes This

Dan Pavelich, "Quick Spins", Kenosha News

Zachary Houle, music critic

Jim Pasinski, The Record-Journal, Connecticut

Adam Hall, Tenor Dad

Midwest Book Review

Storywraps

Hiroyuki Akiyama, HOOP

Phil's Picks

Paul Freeman, Deja Re-Vu, Pop Culture Classics

Werner Stiefele, Rondo Magazine, Germany

The National Parenting Product Awards

Indi Taylor, {KID}Independent, Australia

Pilar Mitchell, babyology, Australia

Sing Whistle Zing

Lisa J. Curtis,New York Parenting: New and Noteworthy

Maytal Wichman, The Mama Maven

Lisa Rupertus,A Rup Life

Sunlit Pages

James Strecker, Arts Reviewer

SoCal City Kids

Lahri Bond, Parents' Choice Awards (Silver Honour Award)

Robert Rusch, Papatamus,
CADENCE Magazine

Peter Hum, Ottawa Citizen

Lee Littlewood, New Music to Inspire Kids' Worlds, Kids' Home Library

Conrad Gayle, Spill Magazine
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Frank-John Hadley, DownBeat

Lee Littlewood, Creators Syndicate

Bruce Crowther, UK's Jazz Journal

Elspeth Poole, Album of the Week, Climbing Mount Music