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| Nora McCarthy & Dominic Duval at The Cornelia Street Cafe Thursday, May 25, 2006 vocalist Nora McCarthy together with bassist Dominic Duval will perform original compositions, jazz classics and soul standards - experimental free improvisation and tone poetry at the Cornelia Street Cafe as part of the Gnu Vox Series. "Nora's vocal identity, aside from a basic jazz orientation, defies classification, and makes spare use of reflexive stylistic mannerisms. In the placement of her voice, Nora can evoke the power of a Malian Diva's fearless candor, or perhaps a Corsican Voceratrice's call to invisible worlds in the language of dreams, or the earthiness of an early blues singer's unvarnished autobiographical witness. She has been attentive to the fluid articulation, phrasing and timbre of the jazz trumpet, the instrument that most clearly has influenced her vocal development. Her shaping of pitch often foregoes the fluid note-bending of the jazz singer in favor of the full press of a sculptor's touch against viscous clay"--Ramsey Ameen, A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, 2005. McCarthy leads and co-leads several other groups including: "The Nora McCarthy Qu 'ART'et; ConceptualMotion 20-piece Orchestra (which opened the Vision Festival X in 2005); A Small Dream In Red - voice and saxophone duet; and, The ACE (Afro-Caribbean-Experimental) Collective. Nora is also a featured member of Master Conductor Lawrence D. (Butch) Morris' "Chorus of Poets". New Yorker Dominic Duval is one of the finest and most prolific bassists on the contemporary scene, having played and recorded with some of the greatest names in jazz and new music. Duval's continuing tenure with pianist Cecil Taylor's trio has cemented his reputation as one of contemporary music's more important figures. Duval is comfortable and can be seen performing in any number of genres, including modern classical, jazz or music which defies classification. Duval leads and co-leads a number of ensembles himself, including the critically-acclaimed C.T. String Quartet, Trio X, "The Wedding Band", and the Dominic Duval String Ensemble. Duval's solo bass CD, Night Bird Inventions, was a Top 10 pick in the Coda Magazine critics poll, and his String Ensemble CD, State of the Art, was chosen one of the year's best in the Jazziz Magazine poll. Mr. Duval can be seen on tour through out the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia. Watch for upcoming events in our news section, which will be updated regularly. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |