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Laura Crema & Bill Coon - StringSongs

National Jazz Award winning guitarist Bill Coon and acclaimed Canadian vocalist Laura Crema have collaborated on a book of genre-spanning original songs. Their offering draws on jazz, Latin, country, and folk music, and evokes a wide range of moods, from carefree exuberance to haunting melancholy. The sumptuous sonic interplay between Laura, Bill, and their renowned collaborators Peggy Lee & Jon Bentley creates a lush, layered, and thoroughly mesmerizing sound.

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REVIEWS:

2022-07-22   Ivan Rod | Link
2022-07-25   Midwest Record | Link
2022-08-09   Michael Doherty’s Music Log | Link
2022-08-25   Shepherd Express | Link
2022-09-07   Rhythm Changes | Link
2022-09-23   The Belleville Intelligencer | Link
2022-09-25   MBR Library Bookwatch | Link

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"All great jazz singers have at least three qualities in common. The first is that unique timbre that sets their voice apart. The second is the material they choose to sing. And the third is the fresh ideas and insights they bring to those songs. Laura Crema has all three in spades."
- CBC Radio
"Laura Crema has an ageless quality to her dry, dark voice"
- Downbeat Magazine
“Vancouver jazz vocalist Laura Crema and trumpeter/producer Brad Turner make for a powerful combination. Hers is a wonderfully deep, expressive voice and Turner has surrounded her with some great players and sounds. This is quite the inspired treat!”
The Vancouver Province
“She has a knack for bringing out a tune’s inherent emotional contours.”
Coda Magazine
"Crema makes low notes glow like coals."
- Mark Andrews, The Vancouver Sun
“An uplifting and atmospheric album, the most impressive offering yet from this accomplished West coast singer.”
- Roger Levesque, The Edmonton Journal
“On this CD the jazz singer takes on American roots and country music and the results are disturbingly good. She yodels like she was born in a saddle.”
- BC Musician Magazine
“Crema favors substance over decoration, eschewing both affection and surface perfection in favor of direct, emotional renderings of her disparate and imaginative material…”
- Stuart Broomer, The Whole Note
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