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Jazzy Me! by Lucy Shropshire
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12 tracks | 46 minutes
Released Oct 2005
on Lucy Shropshire
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:24 Our Love Is Here to Stay lyrics BUY MP3 03:24 Our Love Is Here to Stay lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:24 Our Love Is Here to Stay
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 The Look of Love lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 The Look of Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 The Look of Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 What the World Needs Now lyrics BUY MP3 03:02 What the World Needs Now lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:02 What the World Needs Now
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:34 500 Miles High lyrics BUY MP3 05:34 500 Miles High lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:34 500 Miles High
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:18 You Must Believe in Spring lyrics BUY MP3 04:18 You Must Believe in Spring lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:18 You Must Believe in Spring
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Fever lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 Fever lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Fever
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:58 Easy to Love lyrics BUY MP3 02:58 Easy to Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:58 Easy to Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:44 How Long Has This Been Going On lyrics BUY MP3 04:44 How Long Has This Been Going On lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:44 How Long Has This Been Going On
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:26 I Believe in Love lyrics BUY MP3 03:26 I Believe in Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:26 I Believe in Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:15 Over the Rainbow lyrics BUY MP3 05:15 Over the Rainbow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:15 Over the Rainbow
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:29 I Had a Ball lyrics BUY MP3 02:29 I Had a Ball lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:29 I Had a Ball
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:33 Someone To Watch Over You lyrics BUY MP3 04:33 Someone To Watch Over You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:33 Someone To Watch Over You
Smooth and standard jazz vocals
Editorial review
The entertainment business has always been vastly oversubscribed with artists; in popular music, for every even moderately well-known name, there are dozens, if not hundreds (or even thousands) of at least equally talented performers who have never gotten a key break that would have enabled them to make the charts and play large halls under their own names. Such an observation is inspired by Lucy Shropshire's debut album, a vocal jazz outing with the Brian Derek Trio. Shropshire has had a long journeyman's career in popular music, primarily as a singer in Reno and Las Vegas, and while one would be hard-pressed to say what it is that, for example, Diana Krall or Jane Monheit (to cite two essentially similar performers who had albums in the jazz chart when Shropshire's was released) have over her, she has spent her time in small clubs and touring productions of shows like Sophisticated Ladies rather than the big time. She has also worked as a vocal coach, and you can hear her expertise on her album. From its title, Jazzy Me!, to its musical arrangements, this is a disc that is pitched as a straight-ahead jazz effort. But jazz means improvisation, and while Shropshire puts her warm, rich voice through familiar contortions -- some scat here, a modulation, melismatic passage, or substituted note there -- she rarely sounds genuinely spontaneous. She enunciates precisely; when, for example, in "How Long Has This Been Going On?," a <i>T</i> is followed by a <i>D</i> ("...can't define...."), you hear each distinctly. It's excellent technical singing, but it marks her, despite the many vocal effects, as more of a pop singer than a jazz one. In distinguishing herself, the song selection does not do her many favors. It's hard to sing so many standards and really make them your own. (Someone should have advised her not to try "Over the Rainbow," perhaps the ultimate signature song.) In fact, she makes her strongest impression on the less familiar songs, notably Chick Corea's "500 Miles High," Michel Legrand's "You Must Believe in Spring," and Kenny Loggins' "I Believe in Love," which have not been performed and recorded as much. But these are quibbles. Jazzy Me! is the work of a singer who is just as good as her better known contemporaries who win Grammys and go platinum, and if she herself never gets a chance to do those things, she is likely to continue to improve the shows in which she appears. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Like many fine singers Lucy's musical roots were nurtured in church singing gospel and playing piano and organ for church choirs. After studying voice at UNC-CH, Lucy sang along the east coast with various jazz bands and performers. Soon she moved west performing in many major performance venues in Reno, San Francisco, Las Vegas and the surounding areas. During her career Lucy has sung with and for some very well known artists of our time, including jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Big Al McKibbon, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra as featured in the touring Broadway Musical "Sophisticated Ladies starring Mary Wilson". She sang alongside such gospel greats as John P. Kee, Vanessa bell Armstrong, Darryl Coley, and Andre' Crouche. More recently Lucy sang with Clint Holmes, David Cassidy and recorded with Clint Holmes and Gladys Knight.
Over the years Lucy Shropshire has been acknowledged as one of the most formidable artist of our time. She has her own unique style and presence.
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