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Melody Breyer-Grell

Melody Breyer-Grell Biography "Best Vocal CDs of 2004” - The Right Time - All About Jazz New York Annual Top 5 Critics' Poll "An expressive voice, at times warm and throaty, at times pure and delicate, that brings intimacy and a touching vulnerability!" - Roy Sander, formerly of Back Stage "Melody has done an astounding transfer of vocal sound over to the world of Jazz...Pick up Melody's lovely CD, it's kinda sexy too!" - Mark Murphy For extensive reviews please go to www.melodybreyerGrell.com or Jazzcorner.com MELODY BREYER-GRELL's Blujazz label debut CD, The Right Time Sweet Rhythm tells a story

Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin

By Melody Breyer-Grell

Label: Rhombus Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Somebody Loves Me; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Someone to Watch Over Me; Fascinating Rhythm; I've Got a Crush on You; Who Cares?; But Not for Me; I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise; Love Walked In; How Long Has This Been Going On; Let's Call the Whole Thing Off; They All Laughed; Embraceable You/Our Love Is Here To Stay.

Melody Breyer-Grell: Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin

by Michael P. Gladstone
April 6, 2008

Coming on the heels of her well-received debut album, The Right Time (Rhombus, 2004), jazz singer Melody Breyer-Grell's Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin is an appreciation of the Gershwin songbook. This is, by itself, a daunting task, since there are many preceding greats who have interpreted these songs many times over. Tackling tunes like “Embraceable You," “Someone ...

Melody Breyer-Grell: Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin

by Marcia Hillman
March 14, 2008

Melody Breyer-Grell and the Gershwin songbook make a good combo on this, her second release, ably abetted by Don Braden (sax), Jim Rotondi (trumpet), Gloria Cooper (piano), Dean Johnson (bass), Matt Wilson (drums), John Hart (guitar) and Kahil Kwame Bell (percussion). The vocalist's classical and musical theater training blends well with the richness of George's harmonies ...

Melody Breyer-Grell: Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin

by C. Michael Bailey
February 12, 2008

2008 is shaping up to be a stellar year of stripped-down jazz vocal recitals. Witness Long Beach native Melody Breyer-Grell's collection of Gershwin standards, Fascinatin' Rhythms; Breyer-Grell is supported by the basic jazz piano trio, with the intelligently applied supplementation of solo instruments. Breyer-Grell's voice is front and center in this recording, never obscured by the ...