Search - Christy Baron :: Take This Journey

REALLY dig this CD

12/20/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"She swings hard, I love her ballads (House Is Not A Home KILLS me), and on the funkier side, she can really sing in the groove. Great treatment of tunes, both standards and originals. I caught her live in New York recently. This CD is great, but you have GOT to see her let loose. She is beautiful, sexy, gets inside the lyrics, and really puts a song across."

Keep your eye on this one

05/31/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I picked this CD up after hearing this lovely voice at a Playboy Jazz concert in Pasadena. If she could affect me that way live, I wanted to know what she could do in the studio. The CD was OHHHH so sweet, and I was pleasantly surprised by the very different vibe (Live: synth, bass, drums, sax, trumpet / CD: guitar, bass, drums, sax). Her Chesky recording has a mellower approach, obviously for the audiophiles in us all, but truly lovely and this vocalist knows what she's singing about. I had never heard of this woman before, but if the concert in Pasadena is any indication of what she is capable of, LOOK OUT!! My advice: keep your eye her"

Extraordinary

02/21/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The grace, delicacy, wit, passion, and sheer musicality of Christy Baron is astonishing. Compare her "I'm All Smiles" to Dianne Reeves' version on "A Little Moonlight." Baron makes Reeves sound clumsy, uninspired, and downright unmusical--and Reeves won a Grammy for her work! Parenthetically, Baron's first CD, "I Thought About You," is even better than this one. On the other hand, "Steppin," is a farce. Chesky "wanted to do something different," why we're not told. The result is an absurd amalgam of jazz and "world music," with, for no particular reason, a (spoken) second-rate poem by the producer, and, lo and behold, throat music. Why Chesky took a jazz singer of the first water--whose musicality, by the way, is well beyond her producer's--and forced her talent into alien forms is one of life's more profound mysteries."