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Jenny Davis

Redefining the art of singing, award-winning vocalist, composer, and bandleader Radebaugh, she has found the balance of songs and styles that showcase their collective talents, blending beautiful arrangements and soulful compositions, while adding new freshness to favorite jazz standards. In this adventurous recording, Jenny’s vocals fuse with inspired solos by Easton, Radegaugh and Willy Ingersoll, creating improvisations that make her voice sound, in the words of one of her fans, “like an instrument among instruments." Her voice invites the listener inside the music in recordings of vibrant bebop standards that are usually performed instrumentally such as Clifford Brown’s "Joy Spring" and Charlie Parker’s "Scrapple from the Apple"

Rearranged

Label: Three Penny Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Aceptar; And What If I Don’t; Come With Me; Rearranged; Yeoman Wanders; Invitation; Saying Yes; Calling You; Answer The Call; Gemini Tango; Wake Up; Rearranged String Quartet version).

Jenny Davis: Rearranged

by C. Michael Bailey
April 4, 2020

The first listen is simply heating the snifter to introduce the complex and commanding music made as essence to the listener. The second and subsequent listenings consumes the musical liquor of the talent and vision of vocalist and composer Jenny Davis, who reveals a very sophisticated creative method existing at the triple point of her singing, ...

Inside You

By Jenny Davis

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010

Jenny Davis: Inside You

by C. Michael Bailey
November 19, 2010

Jenny Davis' It Amazes Me (Self Produced, 2006) was a relaxed tuneful affair employing a crack quintet capable of multiple layers of musicianship. For Inside You, Davis whittles her quintet to a duo, featuring her regular guitarist Chuck Easton, and bassist Ted Enderle, furnishing a stripped-down swing that depends on its own momentum with which to ...

It Amazes Me

By Jenny Davis

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: It Don

Jenny Davis: It Amazes Me

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 7, 2006

Jenny Davis is a Seattle-based jazz vocalist who lives in Port Townsend, Washington. She studied with jazz vocalist Beth Winter and graduated cum laude from Cornish College, where she was awarded the prestigious Maggie Hawthorne Scholarship. While she was still a student, Davis formed a jazz trio, sang lead vocals for JIm Knapp's Big Band and ...

Jenny Davis: It Amazes Me

by Jim Santella
June 6, 2006

In a relaxed, acoustic setting with jazz standards filling the room, Seattle vocalist Jenny Davis combines her comfortable demeanor with a throwback charm that recalls those who have come before. Through her lyric interpretations and wordless scat singing, we can feel the distant memories of masters like Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Mel Tormé. ...