Teddy Edwards, who shares the microphone for half the album, provides fluid, blues-based phrases. Jacintha’s supportive partners lend authenticity to the history behind each song. A clarion trumpet blends appropriately to signal the album’s close. Jacintha is at her best when incorporating her impeccable enunciation on “I Remember You” and when dipping into her rich lower vocal register for a loping arrangement of “Trav’lin’ Light.” Her acting experience shines through “Here’s To Life” with added dramatic feeling. A small ensemble culled from L.A.’s finest jazz accompanists backs her. From Singapore, Jacintha has also had experience as an actress, enabling her to put herself into each situation as appropriate. ![]() Her warm, clear, delicate approach to storytelling enables the vocalist to deliver each favorite song in a comfortable manner with intimacy and charm. The sonic advantage to these new Stereo and Multichannel DSD 128 and DSD 256 releases, as with all higher DSD bit rate releases, is the wider frequency passband prior to the onset of modulation noise.This results in the listener’s DAC using gentler and more phase linear filters for playback of the music.We areįor her sixth album, Jacintha pays homage to songwriter Johnny Mercer. They are re-modulations of the original DSD 64 encoding modulation that produced the DSD 64 releases. They are not up samplings, for there are no PCM or DXD conversions involved in their production. These higher bit rate DSD 128 and DSD 256 releases are all pure DSD created by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield. We are pleased to announce the availability of Groove Note releases in DSD 128 and DSD 256, in addition to the original DSD 64 releases. Sony Sonoma DSD Workstation with DSD Wide * NativeDSD exclusively offers this recording as DSD 128 and DSD 256 Downloads (see Tech Specs for more info). ![]() * NativeDSD makes this recording available for the first time as a DSD Download to a wider audience, outside the US and Canada. ![]() This new collection, however, finds her far more in the mode of a jazz singer, evoking the leading lady of the American popular song, Ella Fitzgerald. But in her arrangement of the material and her approach, which placed primary importance upon the lyrics, the implicit acknowledgment was to Frank Sinatra, the greatest singer of the American popular song. Here surely would be a recital of rare sympathy: one of the most purely romantic of all lyricists interpreted by one of the most ravishingly beautiful voices to come along in jazz and popular music this last quarter century.įew singers of standards display as much awareness of the performing traditions of the American popular song as this Singapore-born and raised jazz singer, whose first album for Groove Note paid explicit tribute to the great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster. When Ying Tan told me that Jacintha’s second album for Groove Note would be a collection of Johnny Mercer songs, I felt a quickening of the pulse.
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