Check out this great review that just came out in Allaboutjazz. I'm really happy about it!


by Franz A. Matzner

" (...)While each player possesses enormous ability in his or her own right, it is Serpa's astonishing vocal ability that clearly forms the heart of Osby's latest endeavor, and it was her stunningly unique approach that left the Kennedy Center's audience breathless.

Blending her voice with Osby's alto in a wordless improvisation, Serpa seamlessly integrated her lines and solos together with Osby's. Acting more as an additional frontline horn than a traditional vocalist, Serpa's vocal style resists description and defies the task of identifying precursors or analogs. More than a modernized "scat", Serpa has abandoned the syllabic conventions codified in earlier decades for a thoroughly contemporary form based on flowing lines, color, and texture, owing its closest relation perhaps to opera, with a bit of Luciana Souza, Bjork, and the only briefly recorded Devorah Day mixed in.(...)

(...)As a first outing, the Osby Five's performance can only be summarized as heraldic, and Serpa a phenomena.(...)"


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