Mary Stallings at Jazz Bakery's Movable Feast Series at Kirk Douglas Theatre

"Don't Look Back"

ONE SHOW ONLY!

Mary Stallings - vocals

The New York Times declared... “Mary Stallings is perhaps the best jazz singer singing today”.

Ben Ratliff - March 2012: “A lot of artists are unsettled on principle, driven by the unreasonable idea that there’s something they ought to do or can’t do. Jazz singer Stallings sounds like someone who knows and likes the precise dimension of her talent... She is sophisticated, polished, self-possessed and yet tender. In other words, she is not for babies !

Eric Reed is no less enthusiastic: “If you want to talk about jazz, and the subtleties and the intricacies, the storytelling and the harmonies, there isn’t a woman alive who sings better than Mary”!...

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"Don't Look Back"

ONE SHOW ONLY!

Mary Stallings - vocals

The New York Times declared... “Mary Stallings is perhaps the best jazz singer singing today”.

Ben Ratliff - March 2012: “A lot of artists are unsettled on principle, driven by the unreasonable idea that there’s something they ought to do or can’t do. Jazz singer Stallings sounds like someone who knows and likes the precise dimension of her talent... She is sophisticated, polished, self-possessed and yet tender. In other words, she is not for babies !

Eric Reed is no less enthusiastic: “If you want to talk about jazz, and the subtleties and the intricacies, the storytelling and the harmonies, there isn’t a woman alive who sings better than Mary”!

Ratliff continues: “In the title track of her new CD “Don't look back” (written by Johnny Mandel and K. Lawrence Dunham) she sings: “If you want your heart to stay forever young/let go all those memories of songs your heart has sung.” She doesn’t need to say it; her whole disposition implies it.”

The New York Daily News: The way Stallings plays with lyrics on her current release, “Don’t Look Back,” meets the challenge of interpreting songs with lyrical depth, harmonic sophistication and a sensitivity born of career endurance and musical substance... This is modern jazz singing for lovers and those looking for love by a vocal artist great enough to help you find and keep it !

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