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Jacqui Naylor Quartet at BeanRunner Cafe
Courtesy of Ted Bitter | Posted on January 17, 2016
Where
BeanRunner Cafe
201 S Division Street
Peekskill, NY
Map
914-737-1701
When
Fri, February 12, 2016
8:00 pm
At Door
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Musicians
Jacqui Naylor
vocalsAbout
"Naylor remains one of the most superbly arresting vocalists around." - JazzTimes
"Naylor excels as a sensitive song interpreter with unerring intonation." - DownBeat
"Jacqui has a sumptuous voice, knack for scratchiness, and an ability to sweeten those bluesy bent notes." - Village Voice
This velvet-toned vocalist and songwriter is equally at ease singing music by Cole Porter and David Byrne as she is her own original music. Far from a straight-laced jazz purist, Naylor has made the mixing (and sometimes "smashing") of genres and eras her stock-in-trade, gaining fans and notoriety for singing the lyrics and melody of jazz standards over the grooves of well-known pop and rock songs and vice versa. "Naylor has brought new twists to the notion of melding jazz and pop tunes - without high-tech assistance," claims NPR. ...