Hetty Kate: Dim All the Lights. Vintage Love Songs of Peggy Lee, June Christy and Julie London
Hettie Kate, voice, with Sam Keevers, piano; Ben Robertson, bass; James Sherlock, guitar; Danny Farrugia, drums.Jazz
ABC Jazz 378 2335
Reviewed by Gavin Franklin, June 1st, 2015
This CD features nine classics from the Great American Songbook, sung by a young woman from Melbourne whose voice possesses a purity of tone that is perfect for the chosen material. Combining this timbral quality with a sense of phrasing destined to extract sub-textual meaning from the lyrics, and a control of pitch that is… continue reading »
