Karoline Weidt - Inviting - Jazzthing Next Generation Vol. 98 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mareike Wiening - Future Memories [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 11/12/2021

Kelly Eisenhour is a jazz vocalist of exquisite style and technical accuracy. Her , Invitation, features her regular working quartet. She has toured as guest soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart and also worked with Gladys Knight. Eisenhour is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and was the head of the vocal jazz program at Brigham Young University from 2005-2008. She currently teaches jazz and choirs at Green River Community College near Seattle. InchA superior jazz vocalists deserving of widespread popularity... a seductive voice that is at once cognac-smooth and espresso-rich...Inch - Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes.

New York-based German drummer and composer Mareike Wiening releases her debut album featuring her original compositions performed by an outstanding quintet of New York improvisers. Metropolis Paradise is dedicated to Wiening's six year residence in the Big Apple. Wiening's compositions are lyrical, direct and emotional, as well as rhythmically intricate, maintaining an accessible sound that draws you in. Featuring Wiening on drums and cymbals along with Rich Perry (tenor saxophone), Dan Tepfer (piano), Alex Goodman (guitar), and Johannes Felscher (bass), the group sound is one of give and take, a musical dialogue between soloist and accompanist.