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SALLY DOHERTY QUARTET TIGER RECORDS Personnel:
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THE PERFECT SUMMER ALBUM Sally Doherty sings from a varied Jazz and Latin repertoire. Her set includes Brazilian bossa nova and samba, Cuban and Mexican boleros and beautiful material from the great American songbook. She sings the Latin songs in their original languages of Portuguese and Spanish. Her singing is both intimate and passionate. Most of the time she performs with Piero Tucci on piano and accordion, Colin Elliot on double bass and Caroline Boaden on drums. This summer she sang at Wigan International Jazz Festival, and Marlborough Jazz Festival and has been invited to perform at Preston Jazz, Blues and Soul Festival. In the last year she has performed at The Sands in Gainsborough, The Cinnamon Club in Altrincham (including a night as a guest singer with Peter King and Neil Yates, Corsham Jazz Club, the Hifi club in Leeds, the Pomegranate Theatre in Chesterfield, the One Eleven Club in Sheffield and Sheffield’s own Jazz Festival in 2004. She also has experience as a singer songwriter with bands from other genres. To date she has released five solo CDs of her own songs which have been distributed worldwide as well as singing and writing for Planet Funk who have enjoyed numerous top ten hits all over the world. With them she has performed extensively in Europe and Australia as well as on BBC Radio 1, MTV and Italian National TV and Radio. “I defy anyone not to be charmed by the subtleties of her voice” John Chalk, Cinnamon Club. "Piero Tucci is a jazzer's dream, as unpretentiously skilful on keys here as he is on sax in other line-ups" - Sandman magazine “The music scene rarely produces an artist who can be described as genuinely, 100% unique, but for Sally Doherty that definition is - for once - absolutely spot on” Colin Hall What’s On In London "It was in 1949, when Mark Robson’s “My Foolish Heart” flickered over American cinema screens. It was a typical Hollywood romance, kitschy and sugary, yet the title song from Victor Young remains unforgettable today. Revived by a voice we all should become familiar with, this and other jazz ballads send the listener on a trip back into the late fifties. A time when men still wore hats, New York’s bars were filled with a piano-soaked Cool Jazz mood, whilst with the Bossa Nova literally speaking splashed over a new wave of musical expression from South America. Three years after the highly acclaimed release of her folk adoptions (“Black is the colour”) Sally Doherty ventures into exactly this atmosphere, a charming mixture of nocturnally dropped blues rhythms and Latin temperament. The songs she chose for this purpose are altogether legendary and now absolute classics of the genre, thinking of “Cuando vuelva a tu lado” (”What a difference a day makes”) or “Bésame mucho” that became worldwide hits. The background is always woven by passions, romantics, faltered and failed love and Sally Doherty does well to understand how to extract the emotional content of these songs with an intuitive accentuation. Her crystal-clear voice dews down softly and warm on the music in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Now melancholic now sensual, erotic and sometimes also careless and playful; it almost seems as she had never sung anything else than Jazz. Three virtuoso musicians accompany her sensibly and let the songs appear in an original and genuine image by bass, drums and piano. Only the Spanish “Historia de un amor” sticks out of the rest with accordion and a bit of a rustic folk hint. Without doubt, all of the intonations on this album are just timeless, and in double respect: by extravagant and digressed improvisations the compositions stretch extensively and leave the listener always deeply immersed in their rhythms. You really have to nail your feet to the floor, but even this won’t help to stop them from swinging to the tune of “Softly as in a morning sunrise” on which Sally’s vocals hover as lightly as a feather and very gently, slightly perceptible touching the throbbing bass strings. But again with a slow piano ballad like “The night we called it a day” it makes you feel the whole weight of a sensation. These are the constantly changing stirrings of a foolish heart in love, which create the dynamics and the atmosphere for this collection of songs. Sally Doherty proves very well that she can use her voice in many different ways, permanently gaining new facets. With the latin/jazz project she’s been on tour since last year and so the quartet’s debut was long overdue and indicates a much promising future. “Foolish Heart” is a just wonderful, professionally recorded, nostalgic album for warm summer nights and lovers of “Orfeu Negro” and smoky bar music. Roy Liebscher for www.lichttaufe.com (German language site)
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