Jazz Articles about Sherri Roberts

Sherri Roberts: Anybody's Spring

by Geannine Reid
April 2, 2017

Vocalist Sherri Roberts brings the joy and promise of new beginnings with twelve standards, that offer a spring theme with her 2017 release, Anybody's Spring. Selections come from the jazz compositions of Clifford Brown and Tadd Dameron to the standard and not-so-standard fare of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, and Blossom Dearie favorite Bob Haymes, the set list is a spring lover's dream come true. The San Francisco based singer is a passionate, expressive singer whose emotive prominence never supersedes ...

Sherri Roberts with Bliss Rodriguez: Lovely Days

by Dan Bilawsky
December 27, 2012

Sherri Roberts has built her reputation with a trio of well-produced albums featuring top-notch players like pianist Mark Soskin, saxophonist Phil Woods and bassist Harvie S, but her fourth album finds the Bay Area-based vocalist expanding her horizons by trimming down the personnel list. Lovely Days gives Roberts a chance to work in a more open environment that highlights the interpersonal relationship that exists between singer and pianist. Roberts has maintained an on-again/off-again gigging relationship with pianist ...

Sherri Roberts: Lovely Days

by C. Michael Bailey
December 22, 2012

Lovely Days is a “classical" piano-vocals recital. It is classical in the respect of that this spare pairing is time tested and well respected across musical genres. Bay-area vocalist Sherri Roberts downsizes from her previous three recordings to a duo setting with pianist Bliss Rodriguez. Robert's repertoire comes directly from the Great American Songbook, first half of the 20th Century, but not from the absolutely most dog-eared pages. All ballads, “What's New," “My funny Valentine" and “You'd Be So Nice ...

Sherri Roberts: The Sky Could Send You

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 3, 2006

The Sky Could Send You è un disco mainstream che riesce a sorprendere e deliziare gli ascoltatori per il gusto e l'eleganza del contenuto. Sherri Roberts ed il contrabbassista e produttore del disco, Harvie S, ci offrono una serie di canzoni ben scelte nell'immenso repertorio a loro disposizione e arrangiate con particulare cura nei confronti del contributo dei vari sideman. Si ascolti nel brano di apertura “You're Looking at Me", con i soli di Phil Woods e Lew Soloff che ...

Sherri Roberts: Dreamsville

by Jim Santella
February 1, 1999

Singer Sherri Roberts has a pleasant, expressive alto voice, scat-sings and interprets lyrics, uses a vibrato somewhat wider than most, and fades from the limelight at will. The singer, who grew up in Atlanta, earned a degree in theater, and moved to San Francisco, names influences such as Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, and Helen Merrill.

Roberts fares best when she projects firmly with a strong will and with her desired expressions, such as on “It Never Entered My Mind." While ...