2007-12-01
Jersey Jazz - Review
"When I Look in Your Eyes" (Motéma – 0001), featuring vocalist AMY LONDON, contains 12 selections that highlight her versatility as a singer, and a taste of her ability to craft a lyric. For the session, she selected a roster of some very talented jazzers like pianists John Hicks and Lee Musiker, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur, bassist Rufus Reid, drummer Leroy Williams, sax men Chris Byars and Dan Greenblatt, trumpeter Richie Vitale, trombonist john Mosca and percussionist Steve Kroon, with Byars, Musiker and Ben-Hur handling the arranging chores. London has a rich voice, and communicates the lyric content of each song with clarity and feeling. The Ohio-bred London fits a biographical thread into her opening number, “There’s a Boat That’s Leaving Soon for New York,” and picks it up again in mid-set with the joining of the tunes “Ohio” and “Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home.” The two tunes for which she wrote lyrics are both by Elmo Hope, “Such Eyes, So Beautiful” and “It Could Be So Nice.” She brings depth and insight to an early Johnny Mathis hit, “Wonderful, Wonderful.” I expect that this release will make a wider audience for this fine singer, deservedly so. (www.motema.com)
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