Album Review: What a Difference a Day Made from Ermelinda Cuellar
Album: What a Difference a Day Made Artist: Ermelinda Cuellar Label: Self-Released Website: www.ermelindacuellar.com The lush and penetrative vocal textures of Ermelinda Cuellar are entrancing, displaying an elegance that’s unparallel to others, demonstrated on her latest release What a Difference a Day Made . Fraught with modern jazz standards, Cuellar fuses bossa nova smoothness with swing blues sophistication. The clarity in her voicing is inviting, encouraging an intimacy with her audience that is ideal for building a lasting bond with listeners. Her vocals caress the melodies, imprinting gentle cascades, sleek glides, and flickering embers along the melodic progressions with an ease that is bewitching. Her treatment of “Midnight Sun” partners the smoothness of jazz vocals with the exotic tingles of Latin grooves. The intensity in her storytelling, sung intermittently between English and Spanish, enhances the sentiment projected i...