jazz2love

Album:  Let Go Artist:  Acute Inflection Label:  Self-Released Website:  www.acuteinflections.com Trained as a classical vocalist, Elasea Douglas' soulful timbres are supported by upright bassist Sadiki Pierre.  Together, they form Acute Inflections, a jazz duet whose latest release Let Go features reimaginations of an assortment of classic jazz and pop tunes, alongside a slew of original material written by the duet.  Their offering stirs uplifting sensations in the listener, targeting sweet spots and having a succor effect on their audience. The title track is an original tune that demonstrates the feminine strength and soulful beauty of Douglas' resonance with the calm, percussive strokes of Pierre's bass enhancing the melodic curves along the track.  Douglas displays a vocal style that is truly her own, truly warm and inviting with a human touch.  The duet's reworking of Billie Eilish's "Everything I Wanted" coalesces soul and blues with folk...

Album:  If I Knew Then Artist:  Naama Gheber Website:  https://www.naamagheber.com Vocalist Naama Gheber illuminates a cache of swing era standards on her sophomore release If I Knew Then with her alluring timbres and smooth, tranquilizing glide.  Gheber's revamping of classic tunes like Cole Porter's jazz ballad "Dream Dancing," Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf and Joel Herron's reflective serenade "I'm A Fool To Want You," and the title track written by Dick Jurgens and Eddy Howard, induces a succor effect on listeners.  She demonstrates a poise and elegance in her delivery that produces an intimacy with her audience, which heightens the listening experience. Her interpretation of Cole Porter's 1941 spellbinding melody "Dream Dancing" is adorned in shimmery percussive trimmings that wind around her charismatic vocal stride as she muses about a phantom partner, "So say you love me, dear / And let me make my career Dream dancing, dream d...

Album:  I Remember You:  The Music of Nat King Cole Artist:  Nicolas Bearde Label:  Right Groove Records Website:  www.nicolasbearde.com I Remember You: The Music of Nat King Cole is Nicolas Bearde’s newest endeavor and the sixth CD he has released on his own label, Right Groove Records.  His re-imaginings modernize the formula for swing music from the days of Nat King Cole.  Bearde's R&B enriched voicing helms the tracks, engaging the listener's melodic sensibilities.  Creamy and debonair, Bearde's renditions move the music of Nat King Cole into the 21st century in time with Cole's 100th birthday celebration. Supple and smooth, Bearde's treatment of "That Sunday, That Summer" displays his sensual phrasing and even keel.  Moving deeper into the recording, the emotive tone of his voice in "Funny (Not Much)" rings like a nightingale as Eric Alexander's saxophone twirls float with a lingering peal above the melodic verses of the piano k...