Jazz Articles

Catherine Dupuis: I Hear Music

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1999

If I’m a singer, especially one whose work, as Catherine Dupuis says, is “based on the essence of each lyric,” and whose songs are chosen “because of what they have to say,” the last thing I’d want is to have to shout my way through a clamorous rhythm section to be heard. On the other hand, when Dupuis can be clearly understood on her (presumed) debut disc, as on the Gershwins’ enchanting ballad “For You, For Me, Forevermore” (which for ...