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MP3 Deborah Latz - Lifeline
14 MP3 Songs in this album (60:58) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Latin Jazz
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“ An emotional thread touches down in all parts of Lifeline, Deborah Latz’ strong follow up to her equally compelling debut, Toward Love (2004)… Breathing new life into standards, Deborah sings as if personally inviting each listener into her world, covering a vast spectrum of experience. There’s fragility to her approach on ballads, and conversely a danceable, smile-inducing, celebratory quality when she revs up-tempo.” — from liner notes by Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor of AllAboutJazz-New York
From a pianissimo note held for five measures, to a rollicking, sax-based tune of her own, to deep, penetrating scats, Deborah Latz'' new album, Lifeline, covers a startling range of moods, and emotions - all supported by Deborah''s accomplished vocals and an outstanding group of side men and women.
Deborah Latz comes to jazz after an award-winning career in dramatic and musical theater, where she garnered a "Best Actress Award" at the Jerzy Grotowski Theatre Festival in Poland for her one-woman performance of Juliet, and recorded the original song, ''I''m Neurotic Over You'' for the off-Broadway comedy, High Infidelity starring John Davidson and Morgan Fairchild. Deborah received rave reviews in New York and Europe for Travels With Ma Own Self, the one-woman musical that she wrote, produced and performed.
In recent years, however, Deborah has focused her creative talents on jazz, and we are undoubtedly all the better for it. Toward Love earned immediate praise and her strong second release - Lifeline - will surely continue where she left off.
A fan of such vocalists as Betty Carter and Alberta Hunter, she also absorbed the work of instrumentalists such as Sonny Stitt, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, whose influence reveals itself in her horn-like approach - particularly when scatting. Deborah has synthesized her approach, and style, from years of studying jazz greats and cutting-edge artists combined with her love for the Great American songbook that she learned growing up in Southern California. Her music moves confidently from references to Coltrane''s ''A Love Supreme'', to Bill Evans, to Rogers & Hammerstein.
A world traveler, Deborah has touched down in Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Spoleto and Jerusalem, and she brings to the table a wealth of experience and knowledge, and most importantly - the ability to tell a story through song. She is a performer par excellence - and it is heard consistently on Lifeline.
On "Don''t Explain," Deborah''s artistry is revealed in her (and Joel Frahm''s) slow and uncompromising attack that gets to the heart and soul of the lyrics. You get a real sense that Deborah is not just putting meaning to the words she sings, but into each syllable. In "My Favorite Things", the album''s undoubted centerpiece, Latz lets loose in a scat that is a lyrical, searching tour de force telling a powerful story. (1960s vocalist Patty Waters comes to mind, as does a female counterpart to Leon Thomas.) And in Deborah''s original composition, "Jump In", her lyrics are an upbeat call to action, matched perfectly with a swinging tempo and Frahm’s sax solo.
Deborah Latz'' musical cohorts over the last three-plus years include pianist Daniela Schächter, bassist Bob Bowen and drummer Elisabeth Keledjian. Their musical camaraderie is immediately evident, helping to make Lifeline not only a memorable and significant addition to the jazz scene, but an album worth grabbing a hold of and hanging onto for many future listens and discoveries. Tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm appears as guest artist, bringing talents both as a great soloist and a great sideman, completely in synch with Deborah''s vibe.
Deborah made her Paris debut at Sept Lezards with jazz piano luminary, Alain Jean-Marie, and has worked with pianists Richard Clements, Rick Germanson, and Misha Tsiganov; sax man Grant Stewart; guitarists, Paul Meyers and Ben Sher; bassists Dean Johnson, Gilles Naturel and Dmitri Kolesnik; drummers Jimmy Wormworth, Allison Miller, and Jon Wikan. She has performed at such respected New York City venues as Sweet Rhythm, Cornelia Street Café, 55Bar, Enzo''s, The Triad, and Night and Day, as well as Trumpets in New Jersey, and in Montreal''s House of Jazz and Quai des Brumes.
Comments from Laurence Donohue-Greene, AAJ-New York
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