New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Isabel Rose Official Website) Jazz/cabaret/swing singer
Isabel Rose makes her Los Angeles concert debut, with a March 2nd show at Catalina's Jazz Club.
Rose has confirmed that her band will be lead by renown vibraphonist Nick Mancini and will include a killer horn section featuring:
Brian Swartz - trumpet
Katisse Buckingham - sax
Jacques Voyemont - trombone
March 2, 2011:
CATALINA'S JAZZ CLUB - Los Angeles
9:00pm
More details here: https://www.catalinajazzclub.com/
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. Listen to samples of the jazz/pop/swing/Cabaret hybrid, here: https://isabelrose.com/listen.html.
Here's a JazzTimes write-up by Christopher Loudon -
JAZZTIMES.com - HEARING VOICES
Isabel Rose: From Tin Pan Alley to Power Rock
07/19/10 - By Christopher Loudon 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 singer Isabel 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 a recent 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. It's no wonder she's regularly referred to as evoking Ann-Margret, Peggy Lee and other multi-hyphenates of years past. 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."
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. See Rose's video for 'Aquarius', here: https://isabelrose.com/watch.html
Isabel 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." Learn more about the unusual personal story behind the album title, and more, below -
SHOWBIZ CHICAGO
Singin'- and Swingin'- from the Hip: Interview with Isabel Rose
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." This week, the Indie Music site WildysWorld chose Rose's acclaimed CD "Swingin' From the Hip" as No 24 on their list of the Top 60 CDs of 2010, and stated simply, "Rose will some day be a legend."
WILDY'SWORLD chose Rose's CD as No 24 on their list of the Top 60 CDs of 2010 - read the full review, here: https://wildysworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/isabel-rose-swingin-from-hip.html
Rose will soon perform at NYC's BLUE NOTE as well:
APRIL 11, 2011:
THE BLUE NOTE
8pm and 10:30pm
More details here: https://www.thebluenote.com/
Additional concert dates will be announced soon.
Check out her WBAI interview, here:
WBAI'S EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
https://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/101107_210001eoinagain.MP3
THEATERMANIA included a review of 'Swingin' in a feature on '15 VERSATILE VOCALISTS.' Writer Andy Probst 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=3No content
BLOGCRITICS - CD REVIEW
9/29/10 BY JACK GOODSTEIN
https://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-isabel-rose-swingin-from/
Visit https://www.isabelrose.com
