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Kevyn Lettau

Peter Sprague: Calling Me Home

by Robert Bush
August 25, 2010

Peter SpragueCalling Me HomeSBE Records2010In his varied, 30 year career, guitarist and composer Peter Sprague has always shown an affinity for vocalists. On Calling Me Home, this affinity is expanded to its logical conclusion. The disc features vocals on every tune and draws from a deep talent pool ...

Jazz Legends Pay Tribute to Sergio Mendes at Anthology

July 20, 2009

By Erick Pettersen On July 26, at 7PM, at Anthology--a jazz club in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood--an ensemble of seven jazz performers, including jazz guitarist Peter Sprague and vocalist Kevyn Lettau, will perform a tribute concert to Sergio Mendes--a Brazilian musician who plays bossa nova, which he crosses with funk and jazz. Mendes influenced modern ...

Bye Bye Blackbird

By Kevyn Lettau

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: I've Got You Under My Skin; Bye Bye Blackbird; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Love You Madly; It Amazes Me; I Concentrate on You; It's Delovely; Being Green; Let's Fall in Love; Gone With the Wind; Sophisticated Lady.

Kevyn Lettau: Bye Bye Blackbird

by Stephen Latessa
August 4, 2005

Bye Bye Blackbird is the first all-standards album by singer/songwriter Kevyn Lettau. Born in Germany but immigrating to the United States when she was fourteen, Lettau has an appealing surpassingly clear voice. The eleven performances on the disc were arranged by Dori Caymmi and often feature subtle Brazilian flavors that help give a sprightly feel to ...

Kevyn Lettau: Bye Bye Blackbird

by Jim Santella
July 6, 2005

With strings and the gentle acoustic guitar of Dori Caymmi, singer Kevyn Lettau interprets favorite songs for a standards album that's been a long time coming. She first recorded with Caymmi in 1988, before her eight-year stint with Sergio Mendes took her on a whirlwind adventure that colored her life's work with a Brazilian tinge.

Miracle Voice The Best Of Kevyn Lettau

By Kevyn Lettau

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2003

Simple Life

By Kevyn Lettau

Label: Samson Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: We Know the Way by Heart; Forever Lover and Friend; Sunlight; Nana das Aguas; Simple Life; People's Parties; Homeless Person Interlude; Take a Look; Miracle of Love; Baby Crying; Will They Know; Spring; Out of Town; Prelude to a Kiss

Kevyn Lettau: Simple Life

by William Grim
July 15, 2002

Kevyn Lettau is one of the most versatile singers around and this album shows off her many talents to great benefit. Although best known as a mainstay of “smooth jazz” radio station rotations, Lettau possesses solid jazz chops and is a gifted Anglo interpreter of Brazilian music. Indeed, the Brazilian-influenced tunes on this album ...

Universal Language

By Kevyn Lettau

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 1995