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MP3 Dee Cassella - I'm Here Now
12 MP3 Songs in this album (56:56) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Modern Creative Jazz
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DEE CASSELLA
The thrilling debut of a first class, A+, authentic jazz singer
Dee Cassella arrived with a bang on the jazz scene this fall. She titled her debut cd I’m Here Now and, as critic Bob Gish of Jazz Improv NY writes,
“Hang on to your heartstrings...She’s here to stay!”
Well known author and jazz critic Will Friedwald writes in the cd''s liner notes, "All I ask is that a singer sing the words and music like they mean something to her, like she understands and loves them and wants us to love them too. Cassella delivers these dozen songs with such conviction and subtlety that after a few notes you''re not even thinking so much about the singing part, you''re too busy following the stories she tells."
Rave reviews have poured in, praising Cassella as an "exceptional vocalist" with "great taste in material" (Paul Blair in Hothouse). "You''d think she''d been performing in the best clubs for years" writes Suzanne Lorge in All About Jazz, New York. Cd reviewer Marcia Hillman raved about Cassella''s "great diction and warm personality" in All About Jazz, New York. Joe Regan of Cabaret Scenes calls Cassella a "first-class, A+, authentic jazz singer, singing lyrics with emotion and scaling effortlessly complicated melodies without hesitation on the high notes or the soft notes.
Cassella is a practicing psychotherapist in Connecticut and New York City, specializing in trauma and performance anxiety. Her exciting new career got a major kick-start in 2002 when she attended a week-long jazz workshop at Stanford University. There, she met and impressed established jazz stars Mark Murphy and Dena DeRose and began to work with DeRose (who introduced her to “Lady Bird,” an outstanding cut on the cd with great scatting).
The legendary jazz singer Carol Fredette is vocal producer of Cassella''s debut cd and has been a key teacher and coach, focusing on how to reach an audience by telling the story of the song-via lyric interpretation, personalization, phrasing and impeccable diction--Carol teaches her method with specific focus on rhythm, space, and THE most essential element--"Swinging!" This combination of elements = Carol''s mastery.
Fredette says,"In her premier recording, Dee Cassella reveals a sound that is totally distinctive! Her extremely flexible instrument possesses an uncommon combination of rich maturity and youthful buoyancy, that in her wounderful song renditions express heartfelt warmth and honesty, excellent phrasing and diction. She''s never sounded better!"
I’m Here Now is an amazing mix of exciting jazz standards and warmly elegant contemporary ballads. Gish of Jazz Improv NY says that her version of Kurt Weill’s “Speak Low” encapsulates Cassella’s ability to “transform the ideal into the real.” Other songs often singled out by various critics are “When I Look in Your Eyes,” written by Leslie Bricusse for the 1967 movie “Dr. Doolittle” and “Don’t Ask Why,” a song Mark Murphy wrote and gave to Cassella. The sessions were recorded in New York at The Studio with a stellar quintet of instrumentalists: pianist Dena DeRose, percussionist Matt Wilson, Jed Levy on saxophone and flute, bassist Martin Wind and guitarist Gene Bertoncini.
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