Album Review: Love Is from Yvette Norwood-Tiger
Album: Love Is Artist: Yvette Norwood-Tiger Label: Serenity Records Website: www.yvettenorwoodtiger.com Whether vocalist Yvette Norwood-Tiger is a chameleon or emotionally attached to the lyrics she sings, she is able to portray a wide range of feelings that demonstrates a penetrative vocalese. Her latest release Love Is proves her versatility as a singer, reaching a range that extends from a graceful gait to a sultry purr. Starting off, the Latin trimmings of "Song for My Father" move to the sensual sway of Tiger's vocals, which switch to a rhumba-esque rhythm along "Long Lost Friends," adorned in the ruffling toots of Michael Mackey's trumpet. Her treatment of "La Vie En Rose" is heartfelt as Mackey's trumpet contours the melody with soaring pouts. Languid and luxuriating, Tiger's vocalese on "My Funny Valentine" has a smooth bluesy sheen that is incomparable, as she transitions to a spiritual voicing in "C...