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Com Você

Since their debut in 2003, Com Você has been revisiting the classics of Brazilian music and offering them in fresh, new perspective. The group is led by Polish-born vocalist and arranger Maggie Grebowicz and Texan-born saxophonist Stan Killian. From the bossa nova onwards, they arrange well-known repertoire for the acoustic jazz quintet format. The singer switches freely between Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, English, and word-less vocal, and arrangements feature rich sax-vocal interaction and a variety of complex rhythmic patterns. The group also revisits the classics of MPB and compositions by American composers whose work engages Brazilian traditions, like Wayne Shorter, Arto Lindsay, Pat Metheny, and Jack De Johnette. Their debut CD was recently released on the French Jazz Label Nocturne.

Margret: Com Voce

Read "Com Voce" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 26, 2010

The blushing, demure voice of Margret Grebowicz is a thing of rare and extraordinary beauty. Everything about her is so perfect that she seems to exist in singular splendor. She is pitch-perfect, no matter how nuanced the note she sings is. Usually she can make this up with a tone so freshly subtle and unusual that she seems to have been created it on her own. She can make notes undulate at her command. Her intonation is soft and sung ...

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Chet Baker: La Voce

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 21, 2017

My favorite tracks of Chet Baker singing aren't in English. They're in Italian, and they were recorded in Rome in 1962 with the Ennio Morricone Orchestra. Yes, that Ennio Morricone, the composer of music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables and more than 400 movies since 1959. But before Morricone expanded into metallic guitars, mournful harmonicas, high-plains whistlers and tonal textures, he was a cinematic traditionalist, writing rich, romantic scores that made full use of string ...
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Steve Gadd's "Live at Voce" (Deluxe Edition)

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
November 7, 2010

One of the most recorded drummers of all time, Steve Gadd has worked with everyone from Chick Corea to Paul Simon, Maynard Ferguson to Eric Clapton. When it comes to his own projects, Gadd loves to play good-time groove music that has the danceable qualities and bluesiness of the best R&B along with the adventurous solos and impeccable musicianship of jazz.

On Live At Voce (Deluxe Edition), Gadd is joined by Joey DeFrancesco (arguably the World's ...
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Steve Gadd & Friends Releases New CD "Live at Voce"

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

Steve Gadd & Friends Releases New CD, Live at Voce, Featuring Ronnie Cuber, Paul Bollenback and Joey DeFrancesco

LOS ANGELES, CA: 2010 has been a simply stellar year for Steve Gadd. Between tours, recordings and performances with World-renowned artists such as Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Alain Clark and Edie Brickell, he somehow also managed to record and produce three albums himself, the first of these being Steve Gadd & Friends, Live at Voce.

One of the most influential drummers of ...
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Com Você is with us from start to finish as they pursue dreamy landscapes and fill each one with rhythms that sashay eloquently…. “Candeias” is a winning debut for an unforgettable team that loves and respects the quaint Brazilian tradition.

--Cadence, January 2008

These renditions sound fresh, relevant and contemporary without watering down the idiom’s atmosphere and flavor. The overall results are delightful….”

--Scott Yanow, The LA Jazz Scene

Here is something from the ‘refreshing surprise' department…. Far from evoking the past, these interpretations have a very contemporary feel, due mainly to the fine solo work…. For lovers of both jazz and Brazilian music, this is something fresh that deserves a hearing.