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Amy Cervini "jazz Country" cd Release at Jazz Bistro

Courtesy of Jazz Bistro | Posted on November 1, 2014

Where

Jazz Bistro
251 Victoria Street
Toronto
Map
416-363-5299

When

Wed, November 12, 2014
20:00

At Door

$20

Musicians

About

Amy Cervini is a jazz-honed singer who has the big ears and free spirit to reach far and wide for great material, whether it’s from Cole Porter or Leonard Cohen, Nellie McKay or Willie Nelson. February 2014 brought the release of the Toronto-bred, New York-based vocalist’s fourth solo album and second for Anzic Records: Jazz Country, which sees Cervini perform jazz, country, folk and pop songs with a sense of storytelling, melody and atmosphere to the fore. Jazz Country garnered a four-star review in DownBeat, which has also named her a Rising Star three years in a row in the magazine’s Critic’s Poll and Cervini’s latest release follows Digging Me, Digging You (January 2012), an homage to the vintage jazz pixie Blossom Dearie, Love Fool (2009) and Famous Blue (2007), which established Cervini as one of the more individual talents on the North American scene for her intrepid sense of song and pure-toned, ever-swinging vocalism. The New York Times has enthused over her as “a thoughtful and broad-minded jazz singer,” while the All Music Guide recommends her recordings for a “honest, self-assured and honey-dripping presence clearly heard.” Cervini will be joined by guitarist Jesse Lewis and bassist Matt Aronoff....

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