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| Kate McGarry's 'The Target' for year end top ten list? Have you started thinking about your year end top ten album list? If so, I hope you will include Kate McGarry's 'The Target, ' the most definitive artistic statement yet by one of the top vocalists of 2007. "McGarry has a voice shaped by experience", as host Michele Norris recently explained in an NPR "All Things Considered" interview. Her voice incorporates her "time spent performing and studying music in Brazil, years teaching vocal lessons in an Upstate New York ashram, and a childhood in a big, loud Irish Catholic family that loved to sing Irish folk songs." The Philadelphia Inquirer recently touted McGarry as the best of "a new breed of jazz vocalists. She's an interpreter of jazz standards, but also music by Joni Mitchell and Björk. And she's a songwriter herself. Dark and flowing, it's ('The Target') a vivid example of her integrated jazz and pop sensibility." With a set of original tunes and arrangements, along with personal renditions from an eclectic repertoire of standard and not-so-standard fare, Kate redefines the realm of vocal jazz on 'The Target.' Listen casually and you'll hear Kate's elastic contralto and inventive phrasing enveloped in a lush tapestry of engaging instrumentals. But listen more intently and catch the nuances evolved from a childhood of Irish folk melodies, a study of African rhythms and avant garde experimentation, spiritual reflection, and an unwavering mission to infuse each song with new meaning write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |