Jazz Vocals - CD Reviews (1352)
Elegance is the first word that comes to mind when listening to Sylvia Bennett. Her beautiful voice can be romantic and sexy but always classy and elegant. Sylvia CD Smi…
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Robin Aleman new album In your eyes starts with a bang with the cool version of Irving Berlin Steppin out with my baby. Most of the song is just drums and Robin voice with …
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Besides having a beautiful, sexy voice, and a nice phrasing influence by jazz, pop and Bossa Nova, Kristine Mills is a wonderful composer. Her new album Bossanovafied is wo…
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Caravan is the first track on Black Olive Jazz project View from telegraph hill. The arrangement of this classic, one of the most recognized and recorded in jazz history, h…
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Trio Esperança is one of Brazil’s oldest and most popular acapella singing groups. Founded in 1958 in Rio de Janeiro by preteen siblings, Mário, Regina, and Eva Correia …
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With every breath I take is the debut CD from singer Kathryn Smith. But this album is not just another collection of jazz standards. Kathryn unique phrasing brings a new fr…
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Four decades ago jazz pianist Shota Osabe moved from Japan to San Francisco and was playing by himself in a Japanese restaurant when in walked music lover Margie Baker, …
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Lawrence Lebo new CD is a collection of mostly original songs that takes you through the roots of American music, blues, jazz and folk. Add to that Lawrence voice tone, rem…
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The dusky voice of Sandy Sasso opens matters witn a jaunty version of "Dearly Beloved." Bill Easley strides in with a tasty soliloquy followed by Mac Gollehon's trumpet …
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Debi Raven’s debut album is a warm introduction to a vocalist at ease covering a variety of material. With selections ranging from Fats Waller to Billie Holiday, from Bu…
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Anne is a singer from Switzerland but listening to songs like Em frente ao mar from her new CD Donaflor is hard to believe she is not brazilian. There is even a little bit …
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When a vocalist surround herself with quality musicians like pianist Frank Martin, guitarist José Neto, flutist Pedro Eustache, bassist John Peña and drummer, percussionist…
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With the first notes of the first track Orange Colored Sky, you got the feeling that Fresh made cuppa tea, the new album from singer Jennifer Zarine, is going to be a fun r…
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Gabriele Tranchina’s ambitious, new release, A Song of Love’s Color, brings together a wide array of rhythms and languages. A native of Germany who has settled in…
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Native New Yorker and vocalist Catherine Russell, whose father was the long-time music director for Louis Armstrong, knows a thing or two about authenticity. In this age…
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When I load a jazz vocal CD to listen to, I am looking for a CD that alters my mood; something to put me in a better state of mind, to soothe my soul. I look forward to …
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Ellen Honert’s new CD, Hummingville, is a testament to the growth and artistic development that this native of the Netherlands has experienced since her 2006 rele…
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New York-based pianist and vocalist Champian Fulton has released her third CD, The Breeze and I, a 13-song collection of lesser-known standards. A bit of a tradit…
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TAEKO's latest CD, Voice, is a tasteful collection of songs from some very different sources that she treats with the same skillful exectution. Taeko Fukao, a n…
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The tagline for Sylvia Bennett’s new CD, Smile, is "songs we love with a twist to make you smile." The twist comes by way of the Latin flavors she adds to a well-cho…
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