Avi Wisnia won the OutMusic Award for Outstanding Jazz Song in 2009 for the cover of a TLC song from which 1999 album?
Avi Wisnia Avi Wisnia is a Philadelphia-based singer songwriter who blends bossa nova with 1950's West Coast Jazz, blues, acoustic folk and contemporary pop. Since his first performance in New York City's Caffe Vivaldi in 2005, Avi has actively recorded and performed in the United States. In 2007, he recorded his first EP, "Avi Wisnia Presents". In 2009, he won the OutMusic Award for Outstanding Jazz Song of the year, for his cover of TLC's "No Scrubs". This track also appears on his 2010 full-length debut "Something New," which received praise from several New York City and Philadelphia press outlets, including "Time Out" New York, The L Magazine, 88.5 WXPN in Philadelphia. His latest release, the digital single "Sky Blue Sky" was recorded via satellite between Rio de Janeiro and Philadelphia. This song was also a finalist in the Philadelphia Songwriter's Project Songwriting Competition.
Barfly (album) Barfly is the second album from Buck-O-Nine, originally released in 1995 on Taang! Records. The album contains several cover songs that influenced the band's individual members. The cover songs were narrowed down from a list of seven possible cover songs the band had rehearsed and performed live, having originally been picked round-robin style. The album is fleshed out with original songs written after the release of "Songs in the Key of Bree". "Barfly" was released within a relatively short time after "Songs in the Key of Bree", in part because the band was anxious to have a release available that would see wider distribution than the first album was gaining.