Album Review: DIVA Swings Broadway from The DIVA Jazz Orchestra
Album: DIVA Swings Broadway Artist: The DIVA Jazz Orchestra Label: DIVA Jazz Website: https://divajazz.com/ The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, a 15-piece all female ensemble, is comprised of versatile musicians seasoned in reed, woodwind and brass instruments as well as rhythmic and percussive tools. The group's latest CD entitled DIVA Swings Broadway is an assortment of covers showcasing nostalgic Broadway musicals personalized by these innovative musicians. Led by drummer Sherrie Maricle, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra are torchbearers of swing jazz and big band romps. Bursting with merriment from start to finish, the recording leaves elation and mirth in its wake. Noriko Ueda's bass solo opening George and Ira Gershwin's ageless tune "The Man I Love" sets the momentum along a course of rolling crests and ebbs through the melodic progressions. Horns take flight intermittently, catapulted by the knolls crafted by the bass line. Turning reflective, the languid ...