MP3 Debby Yeager - Mood Swing

Bebop, Blues and Brazilian featuring the legendary Bob Dorough

12 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Bossa Nova



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REVIEWS:
âAn inherent shrewd sense of syncopation that marks all great jazz singers.â âBill Milkowski, Down Beat Magazine

âExcellent discâ¦with a great new sound and it all fits together.â âChuck Niles, KLON Jazz Radio

âYeagerâs transformation of a difficult personal tragedy into the substance of her work as an artist is a remarkable example of creative compensation.â âDon Heckman, LA Times

âYeager has a style marked by enthusiasm, powerful delivery and sweet stage presence with the utmost of jazz sensibility.â âSteve Eddy, Orange County Register

âYeager quickly grabs the audience attention. Her contralto voicings range from subtle Brazilian to the unique inflections in her renderings of bebop and the blues. Superb!â âLA Jazz Scene

âSurrounding herself with top notch players Yeager has a style that is heavily influenced by Brazilian jazz and American gospel.â âDaily Pilot

âDebbyâs artistry and creativity are evident on every track.â âBob Dorough, Composer/Songwriter

âMultifaceted influences rhythmic background through dance and musical savvy has made Yeager the vocalist to watch for in the â90âs.â âJazz Connections Magazine

âOne of the most versatile jazz singers in the Southland.ââThe Weekender

âYeager is solid and smooth â what a great combination!â âJose Rizo, Jazz on the Latin Side, Radio Host

âCD Pick of the Week â Reflecting the fun and good humor that Yeager can put into a song or her warm, easy liquid ballad style with assurance in full command of the situation.â âJohnny Adams, All That Jazz, KNRY Radio, Monterey, CA

âYeagerâs charming alto voice occupies center stage with variety revealing a remarkable similarity of that of Annie Ross, crossing over from jazz to pop and back. Yeager delivers the lyrics clearly and with enthusiasm.â âJim Santella, Jazz News, San Diego, CA

âI enjoy Debbyâs take on âMy Little Boatâ and her re-recording of âNothing Like Youâ with Bob Dorough is a treat!â âPeter Coppock, WDCB Radio, Chicago

âDebby is creative and this is a well-planned and produced CD. Itâs going into our strong play file. I can appreciate the time and effort spent on these charts.â âJerry Atkins, KTXK, Arkansas/NE Texas

âThis young lady sure offers a fresh sound! Her choice of songs and use of Bobby Dorough as a feature on âNothing Like Youâ makes her fun to play and hear. Yeagerâs choice of Latin rhythms add spice to an evening mix of music. Great listening for an eveningâs interlude as Debby knows how to make a song appeal.â âLarry Routt, Music Programmer, WOBO Radio, Cincinnati, Ohio

âThere are plenty of adept female jazz singers around, even in Southern California, but Yeager has something unique. âMood Swingâ offers a solid portrait of her gifts and showcases her distinctive take on what defines the jazz palette.â âJosef Woodard, Los Angeles Times

On her live shows: âYeager, whose recent performances have been under the banner of organizations fighting child abuse, a cause to which she is dedicated, sang for the record in her inimitable fashion. Unpretentious, earthy, she charms her audience with a relaxed but schooled approach to singing, whether itâs a jazz-like âWhisper Not,â or the Brazilian song, âAgua de Beber.â Her sometimes husky, sensuously voiced lyrical interpretations appeal across the board.â âBob Agnew, âBe My Guest,â LA Jazz Scene

âDebby deserves to be seen and heard by a larger audienceâ¦I sincerely believe that with greater exposure she will become a major recording artist.â âHorace Silver, Ecaroh Music, Inc.

âAs always, Debby had great players with her, and the disc is popular with both our DJâs and our listeners.â âHelen Borgers, KLON Radio

âOn one side she is a true âmusicians singerâ (her ears, intonation, voice quality, and musical knowledge are superb), on the other â she has the artistic talent, and experience to establish a true, humane rapport with diverse audiences.â âMilcho Leviev, Composer/Pianist

MOOD SWING LINER NOTES:

âDebby Yeager called me from out of the blue soliciting liner notes. I didnât know her, never heard her sing and was not particularly predisposed to reviewing or writing about vocalists in the first lace. But there was something about her persuasive manner on the phone that led me to check out her tape. She told me she had produced and financed the project herself. Frankly, I was expecting the worst. Cabaret fluff interspersed with the occasional jazz standard rendered with the stiffness of someone who didnât know Bob Dorough from Bob Barker. BOY WAS I WRONG!

Ms. Yeager delivers these 12 tunes with the inherent soulfulness and shrewd sense of syncopation that mark all great jazz singers. Her phrasing exudes a relaxed confidence and musicality that conjures up such classy singers as Annie Ross and Flora Purim. And, oh yes, she knows who bob Dorough is. He appears here singing alongside Debby on a reworking of the 1968 classic Nothing Like You.

The title of Debbyâs debut, Mood Swing, is clever for two reasons. It shifts moods from Brazilian sambas to jazz standards to Latin jazz while revealing her infinite capacity to swing, perhaps best exemplified here on the breezy New Song and on her own Pucker Up, co-written with bassist Eric Stiller. She demonstrates a genuine feel for Brazilian music on My Little Boat, Reza, sung in Portuguese, and a sensual, sambafied version of the Johnny Mathis ballad Chances Are. She turns in a smoldering performance on Mark Masseyâs hip Afro-Cuban arrangement of the Horace Silver classic Senor Blues (catch the quote from Wayne Shorterâs Footprints). And she even imbues pop material like Summer Dreams with a jazzy sensibility (hear her toss in quotes from All Blues and Devil May Care at the tag.) Her haunting, emotional reading of You Donât Know What Love Is carries the pain of longing and loss. And on the lighter side she delivers True Turtle Tale, a spoken word ditty, with all the bohemian charm of Al Jazzbeau Collins.

For this auspicious debut, Debby surrounds herself with a crew of top shelf musicians. Fretless electric bassist Marco Mendoza throws down scintillating grooves on My Little Boat and Senor Blues while saxophonist Doug Webb blows some brilliant tenor on Pucker Up and the churning Latin jazz closer, Songo Mongo. Guitarist Frank Potenza offers a flowing guitar break on New Song and trumpeter Oscar Brashear, a member of the Silver Brass Ensemble, gets to stretch on Nothing Like You and Senor Blues, which also features some additional lyrics written by Ms. Yeager. Pianist Massey is prominently featured throughout and Debby herself contributes the music arrangement to The Day It Rained.

A highly satisfying first outing; and hopefully the first of many to come.â âBill Milkowski, Down Beat Magazine