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Live Review

Rene Marie

by Geoff Anderson
November 16, 2008

René MarieNovember 1, 2008 (First Set)Dazzle NightclubDenver

René Marie is a jazz singer, and one of the better ones in the business these days. She performs the standards and often does so in a straight ahead, straightforward but still unique manner. She's not content to exclusively reinterpret the jazz songbook, however. She writes her own songs and is also known to occasionally select a pop song not typically heard in a jazz context ...

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Album Review

Rene Marie: Live At the Jazz Standard

Read "Live At the Jazz Standard" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 9, 2003

The biggest surprise perhaps on Rene Marie’s inaugural live recording is the conspicuous absence of her controversial reading of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit" and the traditional “Dixie" in medley from her last MAXJAZZ recording Vertigo (MXJ114, 2001). To Marie’s credit, she does cover her previously covered “How Can I Keep From Singing" (the title of her initial MAXJAZZ release). Stunning in this release is Ms. Marie’s beautiful coupling of Ravel’s “Bolero" and Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne." This daring association alone (the ...

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Album Review

Rene Marie: How Can I Keep From Singing

Read "How Can I Keep From Singing" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2000

Back To The MAX. The new jazz label, MAXJAZZ, was formally founded with the release of the first four recordings in their “Vocal Series." These recordings included LaVerne Butler's Blues In The City, Carla Cook's It's All About Love (MXJ 106), Christine Hitt's You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (MXJ 107), and Asa Harris' All In Good Time (MXJ 108). All of these recordings garnered critical praise, with It's All About Love being nominated for a Grammy Award. ...