A great talent is jazz singer Tricia Tahara, who makes a dream debut with her CD Secrets. She is then accompanied by trumpet player Wallace Roney, who was her classmate at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Antoine Roney (soprano / tenor sax, bass clarinet), Geri Allen (keyboards), Ralphe Armstrong (bass) and Lenny White (drums). Tahara has a powerful voice that emanates a lot of feeling. Tahara
… is classically trained, which can be seen in her singing technique. This is clearly evident in L'altra Notte In Fondo Al Mare from Arrigo Boito's opera Mefistofele. Secrets has not become a standard jazz album that we already know from so many jazz singers. Tahara's voice is used in the various songs as if it were the sixth instrument. Modern jazz compositions like Wayne Shorter were chosen ' s Footprints and Herbie Hancock's Butterfly, which was transformed into Show Me How To Fly. A song that Hancock recorded together with blues singer Bonnie Raitt as a duet can be heard here in a sextet performance, with an excellent arrangement by Geri Allen; yet something of a duet remains, namely in the singing of Tahara and the trumpet playing of Roney. Tahara's own songs are Give All Your Love and Witness. The eight track CD closes with a wonderful American standard: You Are My Sunshine. A surprising CD! (JW) namely in the singing of Tahara and the trumpet playing of Roney. Tahara's own songs are Give All Your Love and Witness. The eight track CD closes with a wonderful American standard: You Are My Sunshine. A surprising CD! (JW) namely in the singing of Tahara and the trumpet playing of Roney. Tahara's own songs are Give All Your Love and Witness. The eight track CD closes with a wonderful American standard: You Are My Sunshine. A surprising CD! (JW)more
