jazz2love

Album:   Love on the Tyrrhenian Artist:   CeCe Gable Label: CCGableLLC Website:   https://cecegable.com   Love on the Tyrrhenian , the sixth full-length recording from vocalist CeCe Gable blends American swing with Latin influences and easy listening/contemporary adult pop serenity.   Track after track weaves a melodious tapestry of picturesque tunage, sweeping listeners away along a blissful cruise. A lounging samba rhythm transports the title track and "Little Boat" into a balmy, paradise-imbued realm with the keys twinkling softly as Gable's warm vocals blanket the listener in succor-rich vibrations.   There is a nostalgic slant in the music reminiscent of the alluring escapes penned by Antonio Carlos Jobim.      Gable continues serenading the listener with the luxurious atmospherics of "The Riviera," a staple of Cy Coleman and Joseph Allen McCarthy .   The arrangement is given an elevating boost by pianist-arranger John Shipley, en...

Single:  Once Again It's Winter Artist:  CeCe Gable Label:  CCGableLLC Website:  https://cecegable.hearnow.com Fireside jazz is a precise description of singer-songwriter CeCe Gable's music.  Her single "Once Again It's Winter" is a collaboration she did with pianist/accordionist/composer/arranger Corky Bennett. While Bennett wrote the music, Gable wrote the lyrics and sang the tune.  The verses are primarily based on her experiences while living in Vermont, a transitional phase in her life that left an indelible mark in her memory, which she shares in the song. The elegant phrasing of Akio Sasajima's guitar chords imbue a bossa nova flare strewn across the track, producing a balmy atmosphere around Gable's soothing tone.  The music is both airy and earthy as bassist Harvie S and drummer Andrew Heglund infuse gently rolling knolls along the melody.  The intimacy Gable creates with the audience results in a cozy, fireside ambience. The single follo...

Album:  More Than A Song Artist:  CeCe Gable Label:  CCGableLLC Website:  www.cecegable.com Vocalist CeCe Gable works her sultry timbres through a trove of jazz standards on her latest release More Than A Song .  The warm texture of her register and graceful swagger of her vocal inflections make her recording sonically heavenly on the aural senses.  From the seductive lure she projects through "As Long As I Live" to the reflective shimmer in her vocals ruminating across "Fotografia," Gable holds her audience with rapt attention. The coquettish lilt in her vocal inflections caress the gentle swells of "East of the Sun" as Harvie S's bass solo engraves a rumba-esque sway augmented by the gentle waves of Roni Ben-Hur's guitar riffs.  Gable treats each track with loving care as she fodders the amorous embers of "Love Is a Necessary Evil," transitioning into the soft rhythmic pulse of "I Thought About You," as the tender billow o...