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[MUSIC REVIEW] Ann Hampton Callaway
9.8.06
In today's New York Times,, cabaret reviewer Stephen Holden raves about pop-jazz singer Ann Hampton Callaway , who headlines the Mahaiwe Fall Gala next Saturday night:
Her Untwisted Heart: Keeping on the Sunny, Swingy Side
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: September 8, 2006
Ann Hampton Callaway is a good soul. Only someone resolutely on the side of the angels would write and sing a song like “Hip to Be Happy,” her jazzy rallying cry for the power of positive thinking, and really mean it. The song, which Ms. Callaway swung without a smidgen of irony at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on Wednesday night, might be described as an untwisted “Twisted,” in the way it redirects the idiom of that Lambert, Hendricks and Ross standard away from neurosis and toward sweetness and light: “It's hip to be happy/To give life a big hello/It’s hip to be happy/To say yes when the world says no.”
“Hip to Be Happy” and an equally tidy, well-scrubbed original, “Swingin’ Away the Blues,” are included on Ms. Callaway's new album, “Blues in the Night” (Telarc). She performed both with gusto at Wednesday's late show, accompanied by Ted Rosenthal on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass and Victor Lewis on drums.
The album is another step in Ms. Callaway's evolution from a polite piano bar entertainer improvising songs around audience suggestions to a pop-jazz powerhouse, with the emphasis on jazz: jazz that wears a smile button, one might add. Along the way Ms. Callaway has let go of a certain refinement to tap into the physical reserves of her phenomenal voice, which rivals that of the young Cleo Laine in its flexibility, range and tonal palette.
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