jazz2love

    New Release:  Let's Take A Trip from Anthony Caceres Release Date:  February 27, 2026 Label:  Jig In G Website:  www.anthonycaceres.com Jazz crooner, bass player and leader Anthony Caceres serenades audiences with a vocal prowess reminiscent of Wayne Newton and a swinging strut reflective of Michael Feinstein.  His 2026 release Let's Take A Trip shows his affinity for swing.  Accompanied by Tamir Hendelman on piano, Jostein Gulbrandsen on guitar and Joe Farnsworth on drums, Caceres's vocals drive the melodies while his performance on the upright bass subtly brushes across the tracks.  "A Slow Hot Wind," written by Henry Mancini and Norman Gimbel, displays Caceres's sensitive vocalese as a penetrative narrator.  His poignant vocal inflections along "I Just Dropped By To Say Hello," a Johnny Hartman gem, is laden with emotional depth.  Caceres's retooling of Depeche Mode's hit song "Strange Love" is refashioned with swing jazz tr...

Album:  Something's Gotta Give Artist:  Anthony Caceres Label:  A Jig in G Production Website:  www.anthonycaceres.com The swinging style of singer, songwriter, and bass player Anthony Caceres is like no one before.  Not Sinatra, not Harry Connick Jr., not Michael Feinstein, not Michael Buble though many of the songs on Caceres's CD Something's Gotta Give mirror his predecessors setlist.  With jazz standards like Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia" and Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love," and long forgotten pop favorites like "Autumn Serenade" and "Once in Awhile," Caceres reprises the music of a begone day when swing reigned as the supreme choice of music.  Extraordinarily, these begone tunes bode nicely with Caceres' register and modern treatment of the melodies. Hearing the bass parts of these songs played by Caceres and the vocals sung by him is a pleasing ride as he shares a new vision for them.  H...