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Lisa Marie Baratta: Summertime Jazz

Read "Summertime Jazz" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 4, 2012

Born in Ancon, Panama, Lisa Marie Baratta came from a naval family, growing up in many places but finding music to be that certain constant, no matter where she traveled to next. Attracted to the woodwinds at an early age, Baratta also gravitated to alto and soprano saxophones, but became equally comfortable on flute. She plays all of these instruments on Summertime Jazz, her second album and follow-up to her 2003 self-produced debut, Struttin' (Lisa Marie Baratta, 2003). Though not ...

Album Review

Lisa Marie Baratta: Summertime Jazz

Read "Summertime Jazz" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
April 12, 2012

Multi-reed player Lisa Marie Baratta's second album as a leader, Summertime Jazz, is a collection of standards that sooth the soul like the languid days of summer. The laidback interpretation of these workhorses creates the relaxing ambience of vacation days at the beach, and although the improvisations are short and succinct-remaining close to the melody--there is superior musicianship and significant variety in the instrumentation that puts this record out of the clichéd easy listening genre and solidly ...