Lucianne Evans

Lucianne Evans & Tom Coppola: Hold Back the Rain

by Dave Nathan
December 1, 2000

Although living and performing in the lovely North Carolina mountain city of Asheville, vocalist Lucianne Evans and pianist Tom Coppola had to travel to Brooklyn, NY to make their first studio recording at Michael Brorby's studio. Like so many other of today's aspiring jazz artists, this is a self-produced album. I wish I could report that the outcome is a resounding, unqualified success. Instead, the results are mixed.

With a program of five up tempo pieces, three Latin tunes with ...