Cobalt Blue Music | Shelley Neill

“entree blue”

…Shelley Neill’s… release finds her more deeply engaged with the rhythm team, digging deeper into the innards of the material at hand, her forceful contralto voice as supple and expressive as ever…and always under perfect control. Her reading of Buddy Johnson’s “Fell” is full of soul music Zeitgeist. Her take on Abbey Lincoln’s “Throw” is full of bruised passion and defiant resignation. “Solitude” provides a fitting climax for the brief recital, with powerful bass work from Ron Mahdi, and an impassioned performance from Neill. There’s more than a little anguish in her iteration of the line in which she confronts the idea that she’ll “soon go mad.” Her downward slurring at the end of that “mad” line is pure genius. Nobody has ever sung the song to better effect.

An exemplary disc, if even only little more than half an hour in duration. You have to come to grips with the balance between quality and quantity sometime, and it may as well be here and now.

-- Cadence Magazine Review Excerpt

Shelley's previous album, ENVISIONING BLUE
is also available from www.CDBaby.com


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“entree blue” …Shelley Neill’s… release finds her more deeply engaged with the rhythm team, digging deeper into the innards of the material at hand, her forceful contralto voice as supple and expressive as ever…and always under perfect control. Her reading of Buddy Johnson’s “Fell” is full of soul music Zeitgeist. Her take on Abbey Lincoln’s “Throw” is full of bruised passion and defiant resignation. “Solitude” provides a fitting climax for the brief recital, with powerful bass work from Ron Mahdi, and an impassioned performance from Neill. There’s more than a little anguish in her iteration of the line in which she confronts the idea that she’ll “soon go mad.” Her downward slurring at the end of that “mad” line is pure genius. Nobody has ever sung the song to better effect. An exemplary disc, if even only little more than half an hour in duration. You have to come to grips with the balance between quality and quantity sometime, and it may as well be here and now. -- Cadence Magazine Review Excerpt Shelley's previous album, ENVISIONING BLUE is also available from www.CDBaby.com			MUSIC FROM entree blue Please allow each MP3 file to completely download and buffer before playing. They are 4-6 mB's each and may take approx. 2.5 minutes to download and play: HEAT WAVE ALL BLUES THROW IT AWAY
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