Results for "The Sheena Davis Group"

The Sheena Davis Group

The Sheena Davis Group: Young at Heart

by Jack Bowers
April 11, 2004

In his liner notes for the second album by the Sheena Davis Group, Richard Niles of BBC Radio 2 praises songstress Davis’s “perfect intonation, groove-laden emotive phrasing, charming vibrato and tone as clear as a cloudless sky.” Having given the group’s earlier album a generally lukewarm review, I’d say this one is roughly its equivalent. While ...

Smile

By The Sheena Davis Group

Label: Jazzizit
Released: 2001
Track listing: It Might as Well Rain Until September; Smile; Dancing Leaf; Beyond the Sea; I

The Sheena Davis Group: Smile

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

I really wish I could become more enthusiastic about this album. Sheena Davis is a very good singer, and her accompanists are about as solid as Gibraltar. But when it comes to vocalists I’m a tough sell, and in spite of her obvious assets — a well–trained voice, adequate range, admirable intonation — Davis somehow fails ...