Jazz Articles about Deborah Weisz

The Deborah Weisz Quintet: Breaking Up, Breaking Out

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1999

Deborah Weisz is an excellent trombonist, no doubt about that — and she has the resumé to prove it (degrees from UNLV, seven years backing Sinatra); but her debut album, Breaking Up, Breaking Out, delivers much more promise than excitement. While everything flows along well enough from song to song, few sparks are produced, and one feels that in the end neither Weisz nor her teammates was inclined to take any unnecessary chances. The phrase that comes to mind is ...