Jazz Articles about Michael Camacho

Michael Camacho: Just for You

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 1, 2008

Una serie di standards e cinque originals questo CD di Michael Camacho, elegante cantante statunitense, che fra l'altro ripesca pure “Norwegian Wood" beatlesiana memoria. Camacho possiede una voce molto vellutata ed un bel senso ritmico, che gli permette di entrare subito in sintonia con il repertorio proposto. La musica procede morbida ed accattivante, senza scadere nell'easy listening, grazie anche ad una sezione ritmica di alto livello, che swinga competente evitando scivolate di gusto. Con lui c'è, ma solo nella title-track, ...

Michael Camacho: Just For You

by Michael P. Gladstone
January 1, 2008

Michael Camacho is, to most, a new name for jazz vocals. He immediately captures the attention with a cool, comfortable style that displays his knack for absorbing any number of styles. His opening original, “Just For You," allows him to perform a medium tempo scat which, technically, is nothing unusual or outstanding, but does suggest that he is singing this from his heart and not from the jazz singer's textbook.

Johnny Mercer's “I'm Old Fashioned" becomes a bolero ...

Michael Camacho: Just For You

by Suzanne Lorge
August 9, 2006

Michael Camacho, a silver-throated jazz vocalist, introduced his new CD, Just For You, with three sets at The Bacchus Room on May 24. Between the CD and his live performance, one thing is clear about Camacho. He knows what he's doing. And what he's doing is staking his claim as a front-runner among that rarest of songbirds today--the male jazz singer.

Lest this appellation conjure images of delicate crooners competing with martini shakers for attention, make no mistake ...