Perez and Anita Wardell Hit It! at Zinc Bar

BBC vocal award winner will be in NYC for a week -Anita Wardell is at the top of her game amazing musician and educator- www.anitawardell.com -Anita has recently released another project The Road- Perez will open(unpluged with Art Harihara) with a few then Wardell will take off!Review- from the Guardian JohnFordham- Anita Wardell, the Australia-raised vocalist who appeared on the UK scene in the 1990s, makes albums that deploy familiar vocal-jazz methods and plenty of well-travelled standard songs. The road features-with material by Pat Metheny, Bobby Hutcherson, Hermeto Pascoal and Stevie Wonder...

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BBC vocal award winner will be in NYC for a week -Anita Wardell is at the top of her game amazing musician and educator- www.anitawardell.com -Anita has recently released another project The Road- Perez will open(unpluged with Art Harihara) with a few then Wardell will take off!Review- from the Guardian JohnFordham- Anita Wardell, the Australia-raised vocalist who appeared on the UK scene in the 1990s, makes albums that deploy familiar vocal-jazz methods and plenty of well-travelled standard songs. The road features-with material by Pat Metheny, Bobby Hutcherson, Hermeto Pascoal and Stevie Wonder. Wardell's own lyrics are confidingly delivered over the country-song sway of Metheny's and Lyle Mays' Travels/The Road, and You're My Thrill stretches and swoops between an eerily distracted hover and straight jazz time. Pascoal's Frevo Em Maceio is a vehicle for Wardell's boppish agility, skipping flutelike over the mercurial melody, and she quietly caresses the meanings out of Stevie Wonder's Superwoman with an expertise that never betrays a hint of artifice. An unobtrusively classy vocal album-

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