The past 2-3 weeks I have been busy experimenting with a variety of tweaks, isolation, IC's...the changer has seen much use every day. Couple weeks ago I loaded it up with 5 vocalists from various musical genres, jazz, indie/pop, folk/country/ classical...
Fast forward to now and this is the one that remains in rotation...
Fay Victor, lazy old sunhttp://www.cdbaby.com/cd/fayvictor3I caught her live last year, and her performance cemented my appreciation of her work. Fay is certainly a continuation of the line of the great jazz vocalists that has gone before...Billie, Carmen, Abbey...
...What is especially trenchant here is that each song occupies its own musical universe. Even though there are only five performers, the instrumentation and texture of each tune is different. In many ways, Victor and her fellow musicians are performing jazz chamber music. This is not just a quintet running through the same standards in one basic format. While this CD may be too cerebral for some and not to everyone's taste, Fay Victor is a gifted musician, possessed of flawless intonation, musical imagination, and inventive phrasingand for those reasons, this album deserves a first, a second, and a third listening...http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17208
It is not often for me to listen to one cd every day for two weeks...but this one just captivates a musical spirit I find satisfying every time I hear it...Just love the sound of that trombone.
I got two of her recordings and will be looking to purchase the other 6 or 7 that are available, most were done in Europe over the years she lived in Amsterdam.
Some of the other vocalists that came and went...Sheryl Crow, Detours...
Rachael Yamagata, happenstance (like this too)...
Garrison Starr, the sound of you & me...
Carre Rodriguez, she ain't me...
Holly Cole, shade(this grew on me)...
VAS, in the garden of souls...
Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde. Karen Cargill, mezzo soprano.
etc. etc.