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Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz: Genevieve & Ferdinand
by Dan Bilawsky
There is no greater beacon of sincerity, honesty and emotional purity than Kate McGarry. She's proven it time and again, whether singing standards, modern day favorites, originals or obscurities, and she does so once more on Genevieve & Ferdinand. In some ways this album marks a new beginning for McGarry; it's her first live album, first duo recording, and first release on the Sunnyside imprint. All of that might lead people to believe that McGarry's starting with ...
read moreKate McGarry/Keith Ganz Duo Palooza: New York, NY, April 20, 2013
by Dan Bilawsky
Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz Duo55 BarNew York, NYApril 20, 2013 Informality and high art don't typically walk hand-in-hand but, every now and then, when the stars align, these two ideals find a happy marriage. Such was the case when vocalist Kate McGarry and guitarist Keith Ganz came into town to play a gig at 55 Bar. This unassuming basement nightspot plays host to some of the finest musicians around, yet it remains one ...
read moreKate McGarry: Girl Talk
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
There are many reasons to like vocalist Kate McGarry's Girl Talk.There's the lively set list, first of all--a mix of all-too-well-known and too-little-known standards, with a fine Brazilian number thrown in. There's the uniform excellence of the band: witness Gary Versace's idiomatic organ accompaniment on “Girl Talk"; guitarist Keith Ganz--sensitive throughout, but especially on the forlorn folk tune “Looking Back"; the stately Brazilian duet “O Cantador," with Kurt Elling; and bassist Reuben Rogers' nice feature on “I Just ...
read moreKate McGarry: Beauty and the Bus
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The BusI recently drove into the Big Apple to see singer Kate McGarry's band celebrate the release of their Girl Talk CD (Palmetto, 2012) at the Jazz Standard. It was a stressful drive, given the rush-hour timing and need to watch for idiots steering two tons of metal with their knees as they text “Wassup?" to their friends.But when I finally reached the club, I came upon a legal parking place, right there on the street. ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Girl Talk è il sesto album della vocalist del Massachusetts, Kate McGarry, che ritorna sulla scena discografica rivisitando dieci standard della canzone americana, avvalendosi della produzione del marito chitarrista Keith Ganz. Il talento vocale della McGarry viene fuori nel blues ovattato della title-track, mentre brani come “I Just Found Out About Love" e “It's a Wonderful World" ci fanno rivivere atmosfere swing degne di fumosi club anni '50 mettendo in mostra la perfetta sintonia e il senso di partecipazione di ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
While the world has no shortage of fine female singers, few have the musical depth, sense of passion and artistic ambitions of the divine Kate McGarry. It's doubtful that any other jazz singer could convincingly cover The Cars, weave their way through pianist Fred Hersch's take on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and triumphantly match wits, wisdom and sounds in the vocal super-group known as Moss. She even managed to transfix a discerning 2011 Newport Jazz Festival audience during a ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
At a time when it seems that everyone is a jazz singer releasing new music in a male-female distribution of 1 to 10, what is it exactly that separates the merely good singers from the truly great ones. Because of the sheer number of singers and relative high quality of jazz singing today, it is brutally hard for a singer to register above the base noise he or she is surrounded with. Equally hard is critical evaluation of such music. ...
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