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Myrna Lake

Lest We Forget: Remembering Myrna Lake at the Lenox Lounge 2006

by Daniel Kassell
February 19, 2011

In his All About Jazz review of Yesterdays (Jazzing Music, 2008), Samuel Chell described singer Myrna Lake's recording as “an exploration of the power of memory itself, a musical narrative yielding the discovery that memory, like the songs that are eventually designated standards, is a moment in the present, an instant distinguished by heightened awareness ...

Yesterdays

By Myrna Lake

Label: Jazzing Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: John Hardy's Wife; Ula Would Be Two; I Fall In Love Too Easily; The Man I Love; Yesterdays; The Nearness of You; Nature Boy; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; What Is This Thing Called Love; How Deep Is The Ocean; Mandy Is Two.

Myrna Lake: Yesterdays

by Samuel Chell
May 8, 2010

Another album by a female vocalist, another familiar playlist. But hold the assumptions. This is the first and only commercial album by septuagenarian singer Myrna Lake, but that's not the real story here. The recording is noteworthy above all because it refuses to mistake youth for vitality, slickness for substance, or newness for originality. ...

Yesterdays

By Myrna Lake

Label: Jazzing Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: John Hardy's Wife; Ula Would Be Two (Mandy Is Two); I Fall In Love Too Easily; The Man I Love; Yesterdays; The Nearness of You; Nature Boy; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; What Is This Thing Called Love; How Deep Is The Ocean; Mandy Is Two.

Myrna Lake: Yesterdays

by Chris Mosey
November 16, 2008

Yesterdays, vocalist Myrna Lake's second album, follows softly--as opposed to hard--on the heels of her independently released 2002 debut, Close Enough, when she was a spry young thing of 67. A late starter? Well, not really. Lake started singing three-part harmony with her father and sister at age six, and by 14 was performing with the ...