New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Isabel Rose Official Website) Don Heckman: She "Sings and Swings" with "An Authenticity That Reaches Into the Classic Traditions of American Pop Song"
Rose to Perform at Blue Note, NYC April 11th
In a 'Pick of the Week' preview for singer
Isabel Rose's recent Los Angeles concert debut, legendary jazz critic Don Heckman wrote: "She does it all - co-wrote and starred in the film, Anything But Love, has written a novel - intriguingly titled The J.A.P. Chronicles - and a one-woman musical. As if that wasn't enough, she also sings and swings on her CD Swingin' From the Hip with an authenticity that reaches into the classic traditions of American pop song." The write-up, which appeared via Heckman's popular International Review of Music, marks the latest in a series of favorable impressions by some of the top jazz and Broadway critics in America.
Over the course of the past year, Rose has evoked comparisons to a pantheon of legendary vocalists, from
Peggy Lee to
Bette Midler to Ann-Margret to Frank Sinatra. Her jazz/pop/swing/Cabaret hybrid, 'Swingin' From the Hip', has earned universal raves. A cross-section of recent coverage follows below. Listen to a sampling of tracks, here: https://isabelrose.com/listen.html.
On April 11th, Rose will perform at one of New York's premiere jazz clubs, the Blue Note: https://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=8733, joined a band that will include Ted Firth on keys, Warren Odze on drums,
Martin Wind on bass (and more guests to be announced soon.)
Read this impressive JAZZTIMES.com 'HEARING VOICES' article by respected critic
Christopher Loudon -
Isabel Rose: From Tin Pan Alley to Power Rock https://jazztimes.com/articles/26306-isabel-rose-from-tin-pan-alley-to-power-rock
iTUNES EDITORIAL REVIEW - 11/10: Author/actress
Isabel Rose's talents as a jazz/pop chanteuse shine smartly in these immaculately arranged tracks. Produced by singer/composer Julian Fleisher, the album surrounds Rose in a retro-musical ambiance that both celebrates and has fun with its diverse batch of material. Emulating such exuberant show queens as Ann-Margret,
Isabel teases fresh life out of Hair's "Aquarius," toys with female fantasies in "Thirteen Men" and slides from trills to growls in "I Enjoy Being a Girl." Stretching further, she transforms Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" into a sultry cabaret number and reconsiders Dusty Springfield's "I Only Wanna Be With You" as a slow-burning ballad. "
Temptation" brings her close to early rock territory. Rose finds contemporary meaning in standards like "On the Street Where You Live" and gets frisky with clever fare like "Boy Wanted" without descending into camp. Throughout her sweet-toned vocals are marked by deft phrasing and a light rhythmic touch. Playful yet heartfelt, Swingin' From The Hip is a classy, risk-taking release served with a sly twist.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/swingin-from-the-hip/id383138242?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
In 2010, a critical consensus quickly emerged for Rose and her "one hell of an impressive debut," - as noted in the ITUNES Editorial review, above, the "playful yet heartfelt" CD "is a classy, risk-taking release served with a sly twist." During an in-studio interview with WBAI'S EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN, the engaging, witty banter between Rose and Host
David Kenney revealed her to be an 'Entertainer' in the old-school sense of the word. NYC'S TOWN & VILLAGE NEWSPAPER buzzed, "This Album is Pure Fun," and spoke of Rose's "incandescent charm" on 'The Street Where You Live,' adding that her version of 'Thirteen Men' is "the sexiest track to arrive in some time."
Radio legend Jonathan Schwartz gave Rose's CD steady support via his SIRIUS/XM Playlist. In TheaterMania's Holiday Gift Guide, critic Andy Propst included Rose's track "I Enjoy Being a Girl" among songs by such famed artists as Liza Minnelli, Betty Buckley,
Barbara Cook and others. In a recent interview feature in ShowBiz Chicago, multi-hyphenate Rose is praised as being perhaps "one of the last true Renaissance artists of our time." Indie
Music site WildysWorld chose Rose's acclaimed CD as #24 on their list of the Top 60 CDs of 2010, and stated simply, "Rose will some day be a legend."
Rose's wonderfully funny interview with Showbiz
Chicago follows - in it, she says, "Two of my greatest sources of inspiration are Edith Wharton and Charo." Click the link below to learn more about the unusual personal story behind the album title, and more -
SHOWBIZ CHICAGO
Singin'- and Swingin'- from the Hip: Interview with
Isabel Rose December 18, 2010 by Alissa Norby
https://showbizchicago.com/singin-and-swingin-from-the-hip-interview-with-isabel-rose/
THEATERMANIA
Last-Minute Mixes
TheaterMania offers five playlists that can be downloaded and turned into CDs for gift-giving.
https://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm?int_news_id=32862&int_city_id=1&intPage=4#content
By: Andy Propst Dec 23, 2010 New York
THEATERMANIA also included a review of 'Swingin' in a feature on '15 VERSATILE VOCALISTS.' Andy Propst says Rose "brings to mind the sultriness of Peggy Lee."
https://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm?int_news_id=31007&int_city_id=1&intPage=3#content
There's an unmistakable retro sound to this syncopated jazzy CD, which is filled with a host of musical theater favorites and American Songbook standards. Rose's buoyant vocals coax smiles in her jubilant "Oh What a Lovely Day;" while her version of "I Enjoy Being a Girl," brings to mind the sultriness of Peggy Lee. Most ingeniously, on Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," Rose sounds as if she might have conceived this 1980s anthem for a 1950s Beat cafe.
One of the album's highlights, 'Aquarius', gets a kitschy, retro makeover from Rose in this vibrant music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOmKYkJ-sa0. The pedigree of the production is evident -
Director of Photography was Russ Swanson, who, along with Nigel Dick, has lensed some really big music videos, among them Matchbox 20's "Push", Fuel's "Hemorrhage", and Nickelback's "
Photograph" (which won Best Rock Video at the 2006 Much
Music Awards). He has also shot videos for The Corrs, Good Charlotte, Staind, and Dashboard Confessional, among others. The video can also been seen via Rose's new website: https://www.isabelrose.com/watch.html
BLOGCRITICS - CD REVIEW BY JACK GOODSTEIN
https://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-isabel-rose-swingin-from/
WILDY'SWORLD - CD REVIEW By Wildy Haskell
https://wildysworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/isabel-rose-swingin-from-hip.html
EDGE MAGAZINE - CD REVIEW By Padraic Maroney (excerpts)
DIG THESE DISCS!
Isabel Rose already has a thriving career-well actually, a couple. In the last decade she wrote and starred in Anything But Love and also signed a deal with Doubleday to write a novel. But now she is releasing her debut album. Swingin' from the Hip is a cabaret album filled with new renditions of both standards and other popular songs. The songs get a jazzy, swing makeover. It works better on some songs than others. "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" is a rendition that is just as welcome as the original version. The most interesting of her remakes is of Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." It's a completely new take on the song and one that is both surprising and fun to listen to.
MORE ABOUT ISABEL ROSE:
Isabel Rose has moxie-the kind that made multi-hyphenates such as Ann-Margret,
Peggy Lee and
Bette Midler so appealing in years past. Rose's never-say-never attitude has carried her through many an odd challenge over the course of her fascinating career. Whether writing and starring in a major motion picture released by Samuel Goldwyn, getting a mega-deal from Doubleday for her debut novel, or composing and starring in an Off-Broadway musical adaptation of that novel, she's always found a way to make big things happen. Already praised by critics as a writer and actress, she achieves the hat trick with Swingin' from the Hip, her debut CD.
A natural performer, Rose has been praised as "vibrant" by Time Out New York and "Impressive" by The New York Times. Her recent show at Joe's Pub (5/10) sold out three weeks in advance.
Produced by Julian Fleisher, himself a popular figure in the New York nightclub scene, with arrangements by Jeff Klitz, Swingin' from the Hip is a cohesive and kicky collection that will take you by surprise and keep you smiling.
Track listing: Aquarius; Lovely Day; I Enjoy Being A Girl; Temptation; Hit Me With Your Best Shot; Haven't We Met; Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me; I Only Wanna Be With You; Boy Wanted; On The Street Where You Live; Thirteen Men; Ac-cent-tchu- ate the Positive; The Best Is Yet To Come.
Visit https://www.isabelrose.com
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