- Blues to Frankie & Johnny
- Devil or Dove
- Let’s Explain
- Devil May Care
- Heroes
- People Like to Talk
- Throw It Away
- More Than You Know
- Give Him Up Girl
- Some of my Best Friends are the Blues
- A Dove
- You’re Not Alone
- Will You
- Meet You in My Dreams
Zoe Schwarz - Vocals
Rob Koral - Electric & Nylon Guitar
Hilary Cameron - Piano, Flute, Strings
Nick Kacal - Double Bass
Mark Fletcher - Drums
Matt Wates - Saxophones
First a message to 33 records.
Most people who browse the
jazz area on the record shelves, spend about
5 seconds on each record they pick up. If
they can’t immediately identify what the record
is about they put it down again. This record
sleeve can in no way be described as user
friendly, I even had to use a magnifying glass
to find the record number!
The above is a shame, because
this is a very good record, the songs are
good, Zoe Schwarz is a fine singer with a
great jazz feel and all the musicians involved
are top class. Mark Fletcher and Matt Wates
are already well known to me and all of the
other players are of the same high standard.
Hilary Cameron on Piano and Rob Koral on Guitar
particularly impressed me. Collectively the
band provides a perfect accompaniment to the
singing of Zoe and is capable of sustaining
interest with well constructed solos when
she is not singing.
Zoe has obviously absorbed
much from the great jazz singers that have
gone before, but the end product is a singer
with an individual style and a polished performance.
Many of the songs are written
by Zoe & Rob and very good they are to,
I particularly liked ‘People like to Talk’
which cracks on with a nice Latin feel, everyone
contributes well to this track and Mark Fletcher
demonstrates why he is in such great demand
as a drummer. Personally, I would have included
a few more standard songs, Zoe does a wonderful
job on ‘More Than you Know’ and so do the
band, I would like to hear more of her in
that mode.
To conclude, choose the music
despite the ‘arty’ sleeve, this is a fine
record which anyone who enjoys quality jazz
singing and expert jazz musicianship will
enjoy.
Highly Recommended.
Don Mather
CD Reviews
33 Records - 33JAZZ121 
