Album Review: Bredux: Collected Edges from Kaylé Brecher
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...