“unique beauty and warmth … a ‘timeless standard’ identity redolent of, say, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern”

AP Reviews

“These songs may not be standards now, but they will be soon enough. They’re that good … [Mancio’s] lyric-writing is sophisticated and sensitive beyond her years”

Jazz Wax

“This pairing of … lyrics and melody could hardly be improved upon: it is therefore unsurprising that comparisons are made with the classic songbook era”

Jazz Local 32 (New Zealand)

“Alan Broadbent’s lucid melodies and Georgia Mancio’s delicately evocative lyrics already have that inseparable feeling”

The Observer

“this was Rodgers and Hart, George and Ira, Berlin, Porter, Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields born again in a different century. It didn’t, it couldn’t, get any better than this”

Bebop Spoken Here

The Songs of Alan Broadbent & Georgia Mancio

Physical and E-Books, and Individual Sheet Music for songs by pianist/composer Alan Broadbent and vocalist/lyricist Georgia Mancio. Available in Male and Female Keys. 

MALE KEYS + SOLO PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT

  • 162-page Book of 33 songs from albums Songbook and Quiet Is The Star and many more 
  • Includes photos, song by song descriptions and bespoke artwork by Simon Manfield 
  • Physical book is wire-bound to stay open. Includes free digitally signed bookmark 
  • E-book sent as downloadable PDF
  • Individual Sheet Music also available for each song as PDF

FEMALE KEYs as lead sheets

The Songs of Alan Broadbent and Georgia Mancio: bookcover
  • 94-page Book of 33 songs from albums Songbook and Quiet Is The Star and many more 
  • Includes photos, song by song descriptions and bespoke artwork by Simon Manfield 
  • Physical book is wire-bound to stay open. Includes free digitally signed bookmark 
  • E-book sent as downloadable PDF
  • Individual Sheet Music also available for each song as PDF

Alan Broadbent:  “Every once in a while, melodic inspirations would pop into my head uninvited, expressing my inner feelings with just notes and chords but without words. That is, until they met Georgia Mancio. She has the same love for song as I do and knows the language they need to speak to the heart. She also found, word for word, note for note, solutions to my sometimes enigmatic titles and gave life to the sentiment they implied.”

From wry political commentary (Same Old Moon) to the challenges of mid-life (Forever); moments of deep kinship (To Walk With You) to obsession (One For Bud); the beginning of life (Small Wonder) to the end of life (Lullaby for MM) and a seasonal song for our times whose depth eschews the usual tropes of Santa, snow and religion (That Time Of Year).

From the profound poetry of ballads, waltzes and bossa novas to the linguistic and melodic joy and gymnastics of bop and samba; through journeys and resting places, childhood and old age, community and solitude: their collection displays an astonishing conviction and consistency and has been praised and performed by global artists Sheila Jordan, Janis Siegel, Tierney Sutton, Claire Martin, Steve Tyrell, Judy Wexler, John Proulx and Norma Winstone.