{"product_id":"heart-soul-live-in-san-francisco","title":"HEART \u0026 SOUL: LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO","description":"Product Description\n\nKitty Margolis is at her very best LIVE and on \"Heart \u0026amp; Soul: Live in San Francisco\" she proves this in spades. Margolis is tremendous improviser, a risk-taker at her very core and this new CD brilliantly captures the unpredictable excitement of the singer's club set, down to Margolis' dialogue with the audience and off-the-cuff humor. Here, for her fifth recording as a leader, Margolis celebrates a return to her roots, taping in front of a packed house at the old On Broadway Theater in San Francisco's North Beach, only a few doors down from the legendary but now defunct Jazz Workshop, where she made her critically acclaimed debut album fifteen years earlier.\nHighlights include: Kitty’s fresh, buoyant arrangement of \"A Sleepin’ Bee,\" her incendiary scat tour de force on \"Summertime,\" a bluesy romp though Mose Allison's \"Your Mind Is On Vacation\" the funky, joyful re-working of \"Surrey With the Fringe,\" her sweet, poignant celebration of \"Secret Love,\" the blazing version of \"My Favorite Things\" and her achingly romantic interpretation of the title track.\n\nReview\n\nAn exhilarating and imaginative jazz vocalist of the highest order...thrilling. -- Jerry Karp, San Francisco Chronicle\n\nFive Stars. This finest of contemporary vocal improvisers is something special Exuberant, unpredictable, witty, but never boring. -- The Australian\n\nMargolis' ebullient enthusiasm invests each of the numbers with high-spirited pleasures. -- Don Heckman, The Los Angeles Times\n\nMargolis, an equally potent blend of class, integrity and chutzpah, delights the SRO audience with 75 minutes of thrilling showmanship. -- Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times\n\nScat so rare in this day and age, you might think you've found the Holy Grail. -- The Buffalo News\n\nFrom the Artist\n\nKitty Margolis says, \"I'm really excited about this record. I think it completely captures the essence of who I am as an artist and the musical values I stand for. I love live performance. Here you have the raw truth, the bare essentials, an old school blowing session with a great trio. There is nothing like the circle of energy between the band and the audience on a good night. When it's happening it's the best feeling in the world.\"\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\" The world has been waiting for the next Ella, Sarah or Carmen to appear. At last the search is over. The next great jazz voice is Kitty Margolis!\"\n-Lionel Hampton Kitty Margolis is generating plenty of buzz in the jazz world and beyond as one of the most original and inspiring vocal stylists of her generation. Edging the music into the future while simultaneously honoring the past, Margolis’ high-wire improvisations and visionary approach have redefined and revitalized the art of jazz vocals. \"If anyone is the epitome of a jazz vocalist, raves Jazziz magazine, \"it's Kitty Margolis.\" A San Francisco native, Margolis launched her recording career after attending Harvard University and San Francisco State. She has recorded and performed with jazz greats such as Joe Henderson, Lionel Hampton, Elvin Jones, Roy Hargrove, John Handy, Hank Jones, Joe Louis Walker, Charles Brown, Herb Ellis, Rufus Reid, David \"Fathead\" Newman, Buddy Montgomery and Red Holloway, appearing at festivals, clubs and concert halls on four continents, from Tokyo to London, New York to Paris, Tel Aviv to Sydney. In 2004 Margolis is celebrating the release of her fifth CD, Heart \u0026amp; Soul: Live in San Francisco. She is at her best \"live\" and this stunning recording marks the adventurous singer’s return to her mainstream roots with an \"in concert\" tour de force that comes on the heels of several creative and far-ranging studio outings. In the liner notes noted New York writer Stanley Crouch observes, \" Kitty Margolis is an original who has made the heritage of all of the great jazz singers her own. Beyond her virtuoso technique, she has an epic feeling, a willful breadth of emotion that is artfully focused on the details of life. She is not afraid to be as intimate as a diary or as athletic as necessary in order to stand up to the power of her band. Like all true artists, Kitty Margolis adds something good to the world that it did not possess before she came along. She is, as they say, ‘the real thing.’ \" Awards and accolades for her innovative interpretations have been steadily piling up at Margolis' doorstep. Left Coast Life was nominated for the 2003 California Music Award for Best Jazz Album as well as being chosen \"#1 Jazz Vocal Release\" by The International Association of Jazz Education Journal. She has been named \"Talent Deserving Wider Recognition\" five times in the Down Beat Critics' Poll, and she won the BAMMIE for \"Outstanding Jazz Vocalist\" in 1997 after the release of Straight Up With a Twist, which Japan’s Swing Journal called \"a perfect masterpiece.\" She also has received the \"Certificate Recognizing Exceptional Creativity\" from the BAMMIES three times, including Best Jazz Album for her 1994 \"Evolution,\" which The San Francisco \u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0001GF2NS\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B0001GF2NS.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:MARGOLIS,KITTY\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. 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