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This Heart of Mine

Jackie Ryan

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Album Review

On the surface, this seems to be just another excellent vocal jazz recording by a popular San Francisco-based singer whose best-known longtime gig is the London club Ronnie Scott's. Yet the exotica of Ryan and the music she chooses is so much a part of the story, from her sultry Italian on "Estate" to her crafty Portuguese on Jobim's joyful samba "Anos Dourados." Her bio makes multiple mentions of her multiethnic background — Mexican, Irish, and French — perhaps to justify her ability to tackle the foreign tunes. Yet at heart, she's an honest to God jazz singer in the Sarah Vaughan/Betty Carter mode who seems coziest on lush ballads like the title track and fun swingers like "A Sleepin' Bee" and Ellington's "Jump for Joy," which starts as a sparse, stylish duet with voice and John Wiitala's bass before incorporating Allen Smith's playful muted trumpet. Each song has a credited arranger, an obvious ode to the care with which Ryan chose and interpreted this varied material. Although her name is still not on the lips of mainstream jazz fans, Ryan's association here with legends like Toots Thielemans (who adds harmonica romance to tunes like "Estate") and Ernie Watts (whose inimitable tenor infuses three tunes), along with her diverse talents, will help expose her to a well-deserved wider audience.

Customer Reviews

Jump for Joy

Fabulous jazz singer, and superb backing musicians, who come forward to make this CD a smash! Jackie Ryan combines vocal beauty, great jazz feel, genuine expressiveness to bring us what is unquestionably one of the great jazz talents currently alive. She has that extremely rare ability to combine gorgeous sound, with freedom and release when it is needed. Want to know more? Go to her website, and read all the 5 STAR reviews that are piling up for her CDs. This woman, given some top promotion and support, could be the next McRae, Vaughan. Ella-- well probably not? But there is still time.

Biography

Genre: Vocal

Years Active: '00s

Vocalist Jackie Ryan arrived on the ever-changing jazz scene at the dawning of the new millennium, deriving a classic, yet exotic style and sound. Of Mexican, Irish, French, and Spanish decent, Ryan throws her background it into her music. She sings in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, and echoes of Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday...
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This Heart of Mine, Jackie Ryan
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  • $9.99
  • Genres: Vocal, Music
  • Released: Sep 23, 2003

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