jazz2love

Album: Bredux:  Collected Edges Artist:  Kaylé Brecher Label: Penchant Four Music Website:  http://www.brecherjazz.com Vocalist Kaylé Brecher spotlights her expressive voicing, approaching her song choices on her ninth release Bredux: Collected Edges with an avant garde-bent.  Selecting tunes that enable her to exercise her talent for vocal improvisation and to explore the nuances inherent in her register, Brecher's arrangements brim with authenticity, fusing her eclectic taste with modern jazz arrangements. Brecher's vocals elicit a distinct ambience in each track from the soothing tone of her timbres whisking across the island breezes of "Under Paris Skies," propagated by Todd Groves's piccolo, to the jumping jive strut in her versing along "Spy Music."  Changing to a burlesque sway through "Cool," Brecher's scatting asserts her expressive side, bringing out her flair for improvising sounds. The spontaneity in her singing displays her in...

Album:  Kayleidoscope Artist:  Kaylé Brecher Label:  Penchant Four Music Website:  www.brecherjazz.com Part spicy, part sublime, and part exotic sounding, singer-songwriter Kaylé Brecher displays the many facets of her vocals on her 8th release Kayleidoscope from Penchant Four Music label.  A collection of classic pop standards and original tunes, the release gives Brecher a platform to enchant audiences with bursts of scatting, an art form that is rarely exercised.  Accompanying Brecher on the recording are a variety of musicians who contour her vocals, bringing out the firm grip that her timbres have on the lyrics. The elegant inflections in her vocals create an amorous mood in "Something About You" as she whirls into a salsa rhythm, nuzzling the lyrics while she calls out, "There's something about you / Something that puts the magic in a song / You are the colors of the sunset... You are love and you are grace / And you are everything that i...