Jazz Articles about Kathleen Gorman

Kathleen Gorman: I Can See Clearly Now

by Dan Bilawsky
August 7, 2017

I Can See Clearly Now testifies to the durability and pliability of everlasting songs while also opening up the floor to new ones. Kathleen Gorman, a pianist-vocalist-composer based in Toronto, fronts a quintet on a trip through six covers and four originals, speaking to truth through her own music and smartly-arranged renditions of some time-tested classics. When Gorman sings of seeing clearly now on her arrangement of the album-launching title track, it's immediately evident that she's not ...

Kathleen Gorman: Brand New Day

by Jerry D'Souza
June 11, 2009

Toronto-based Kathleen Gorman wears several cloaks. She is a composer, singer, pianist, and arranger. Her first CD, Brand New Day, conclusively profiles her talents with songs possessing a wide range, and Gorman does them justice in bringing out the feelings that lie in the lyrics.

Gorman sings with a compact sense of rhythm and development, letting her creative sense light a fire under the songs. What emerges is an expressive singer who is at home in jazz, blues and the ...