New Release: Long As You're Living from Lisa Rich

 

New Release:  Long As You're Living from Lisa Rich
Label:  Tritone Records
Release Date:  June 21, 2024
Website:  www.lisarich.com

Bequeath with character, class and panache, vocalist Lisa Rich gives listeners the best she has to offer on her disc Long As You're Living, a collection of originals and jazz standards that share reflections about life's trials and tribulations.  Co-produced by Bob Dawson and the late Jay Clayton, the swinging tunes are fraught with lively vocal embellishments and a resiliency in her delivery that is penetrative.  Her thoughtful rendering of Abbey Lincoln's timeless melody "Throw It Away" hears Rich's glinting voice delving deeply into her register, resurfacing with the words held firmly by a clenching fist when she ruminates, "You can never lose a thing, if it belongs to you."  The haunting tone of Marc Copland's keys rustling tenderly across "When I Look Into Your Eyes" bathe Rich's lingering vocals in a retrospective mood, gliding into a bopping stride along Clayton's original tune "New Morning Blues," as Rich's crisp scatting moves to its own rhythm.  Her vocals permeate a bright luster across "Lonely Woman," emoting a salient grieving that turns to a bubbly sprint along "Isotope," a piece written by pianist Steve Kuhn.  Her vocals are anchored by Drew Gress's bopping bass and Dave Ballou's dancing trumpet, transitioning into a cruising saunter along “Jitterbug Waltz," propelling the melody into an airy ozone.   Lisa Rich navigates a vocal elasticity that swings, bops, ruminates, and scats with discernible ease and total command of steering the tracks in a forward motion.

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