Vocalist, Recording Artist and Educator
You will find excellence on many levels. Pitch, tone, improvisation song selection and arrangement-sheer talent, too.
- Mark Murphy
The complaint has often been lodged that no young jazz singers are coming up to take over from the Fitzgeralds and Vaughans. Every once in a while a singer such as Lisa Rich will come along and give the lie to this theory.
- Leonard Feather,
Los Angeles Times
LONG AS YOU'RE LIVING
NEW CD!
“An adventurous and eminently hip vocalist… this stirring release finds a radiant Rich scatting with uncanny abandon on Clayton’s ‘New Morning Blues’ and Joe Henderson’s ‘Isotope,’ delivering Abbey Lincoln’s anthemic ‘Throw It Away’ with an understated power and glory, and reinventing Fats Waller’s ‘Jitterbug Waltz’ and the standard ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’ with a playful kind of phrasing and scatting prowess inherited from elders like Clayton, Sheila Jordan and Annie Ross. But perhaps her most compelling performances here come on dramatic interpretations of Horace Silver’s ‘Lonely Woman,’ Jimmy Rowles’ ‘The Peacocks’ and Thelonious Monk’s ‘Ask Me Now,’ all showcasing her gift for patient storytelling.”
– Bill Milkowski, Musings on Music
“An exquisite and exciting, surprise-filled new collection … the singer’s eclectic set finds her in giddy, happy-to-be-alive mode from the start, infusing the cheery, life affirming title track with her wild and witty phrasing and whimsical, multi-octave scatting. This album will make every jazz fan grateful that Lisa’s still living and thriving – and will hopefully inspire her to keep the comeback going for years to come.”
– Jonathan Widran, JW Vibe
Produced by Jay Clayton, Bob Dawson and Lisa Rich
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Marc Copland (piano)
Drew Gress (bass)
Dave Ballou (trumpet)