Review of Live Show/ Chyrsalis (for full article, see link below)
...(Kat) was clean, sharp and smooth....She did all original material. The lyrics were great. Put to some new rhythms and with old style jazz riffs mixed in, everything flowed together well.
I took a copy of her CD, Chrysalis, home and fired it up to get a better earful and WOW! Impressive!
The opening tune The Brooklyn Dodger is an outstanding portrait of how New York City....If you know the city (NYC) this tune will hit home with you. This truly is a portrait, as you listen you can see the events unfolding in your mind, and hear the sounds of New York...
A Rose follows the "Dodger" and shows the versatility of Kat, her words and music. She slips into a Carmen McRae like sassy elegance as she tells us about a young lady's search for love...(she uses) her low vibrato style here, sexy but innocent...another great tune.
Impossible Is Nothing....Kat "talks" some jazz at us in this tune, lovingly and with her unique sound of purity. There is a quality in her work - both words and music - that says "listen to me"...This is one of the more complicated compositions on the CD and I thought it is done brilliantly...
This album is a joy because I am always happy to see today's artists who honor the Jazz genre and bring it into the current music scene, and help "Keep the music alive".....This is truly a strong work. To put lyrics and jazz harmony together is a task and Kat has accomplished it with...Chrysalis. It's on my Ipod already!
Kat Calvosa: Press
Review of Chrysalis (for full article, see link below)
....Calvosa shows a great talent for jazz singing, and her band can swing or take it down for a tender ballad. And the fact that Calvosa writes all of her material here is a bonus....
Calvosa sings in a low soprano voice with just a hint of sweetness. She can play with the rhythm without ever losing the beat. Her band supports her well. They can play drums, stand-up bass, and piano. Or, they can change the feel, going with drums, electric bass, and electric piano. Either way, they interweave their lines with Calvosa’s vocals, creating a whole that is richer than the parts. And that is what the listener hears as the album starts. Then, a few tracks in, acoustic guitar and background vocals appear....
Chrysalis opens with the song The Brooklyn Dodger, and we immediately get a wonderful introduction to Calvosa’s gifts as a song writer....In the space of an average-length song, Calvosa creates a work of great subtlety and nuance.
The Brooklyn Dodger is no fluke. Calvosa hits the mark with her songs throughout the album. In See It Rise, Calvosa imagines jogging every day past a site where, at first, a beautiful old house stands. The house is torn down, and she jogs past a growing pile of rubble. And she knows that the site will soon contain a new building, a tribute to modern construction, but a structure with no personality. A Rose is a subtle love song, more of a caress than an embrace, and all the more tantalizing for it. Impossible Is Nothing uses billboards as a metaphor for a woman’s growing self confidence. So Calvosa shows an original perspective, and a gift for metaphors.
...Over all, I really enjoyed Chrysalis. I hope Calvosa sticks with the small group jazz, because it’s a great sound for her. And I am eager to see where her songwriting goes next.
This singer songwriter exudes confidence, sensuality, and a refreshing sense of true innovation to the intertwining worlds of jazz and popular music.
The mellifluous tones from this chanteuse are deucedly enchanting.