Azure McCall

Jazz, R&B, Blues

" One of the hidden treasures of the Hawaiian islands for some thirty years, Azure McCall is a jazz singer in the highest sense of the term. Not a pop singer with some 'jazzy' inflections. Not an R&B singer with a couple standards in her songbook. A jazz singer. The kind that can take a pop song, or an R&B song, or just about any song you can imagine and perform it in a way that's purely jazz. Outside the realm of the serious scat singers it's very hard to define the qualities that make a jazz singer. The nature of song militates against excessive improvisation by a vocalist in many ways, making the jazz vocal more a matter of timing and inflection, but not wholly that, or wholly anything. It's definitely one of those "I know it when I hear it" kind of things." ___Quoted from Shaun Dale's review her CD "The Gift" (MuseFX).