|
|
Jay Clayton
In and Out of Love
Sunnyside Communications, 2010
1. Falling In Love With Love
2. How Deep Is The Ocean
3. Freedom Jazz Dance
4. My One And Only Love
5. Sunshower
6. For Heaven's Sake
7. Israel
8. Never Let Me Go
9. I Hear A Rhapsody
10. Lament
Jack Wilkins - Guitar
Jay Anderson - Double-bass
Jay Clayton
- Vocals
"In And Out Of Love" (Sunnyside Communications,
2010) is Jay Clayon's latest album. The New-York based singer, universally
known as avant garde, and as a skilled and creative improviser and innovator, that
has her roots into bebop and free jazz, presents us a beautifully tailored album
with jazz standards which she is particularly fond of. The songs chosen by
Jay
Clayton are, as the album title depicts, on the theme of love: being
in love, falling in love, questioning love and falling out of love.
Jay
Clayton is a grand storyteller, one of the very few of the American
Songbook. Se uses her voice as an instrument, leaping from very low sax soprano
notes to very high flute-like sounds effortlessly and flawlessly. The accents she
places in her phrasing and in her scat singing and improvisation contain a mesmerizing
mixture of bebop and free that give an instrumental flavor to her interpretations.
Her technique and intonation are superb. The interventions and solos of Jay Anderson
are particularly beautiful in "Falling In Love With Love" and "I Hear
A Rhapsody", and Jack Wilkins' solos are as beautifully fluid as those
of a sax.
Jay Clayton has chosen very skillful musicians for this trip,
and their interplay is a joy to the spirit. An album that ought to be listened and
re-listened, for the refined music and arrangements and the skills of the three
musicians, that are able to intertwine melodies and harmonies that fascinate and
hypnotize.
Eva Simontacchi
for Jazzitalia
Insert an opinion
This page has 1.007 hits
Publishing Date: 20/12/2010
|
|
If you would like to collaborate with Jazzitalia, click here.....
