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Heerlijke New Orleans Jazz, Njoy!

Where can one separate nostalgia from performance practice? Vocalist Catherine Russell prefers to engage her art using older formats. On Send For Me, Russell infuses her performances with a certain New Orleans-cum-Chicago flavor, circa 1930. She does not do this as a gimmick, rather it is the style in which she best works. Of the material on Send For Me, Russell states that she, ..."loves romance that swings." The musical hinge joining the 1930s with the '40s provides her an able vehicle. Consider the NOLA clarinet and ensemble brass on "Did I Remember, " or the Chicago jive of "At The Swing Cats Ball." These songs are best presented this way, not for eliciting nostalgia, but because of a closer-than-skin connotation that the period of composition provided the pieces. Russell's song choice is solidly weighted, the most "standard" standard being Brooks Bowman's "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" which is dispatched with a certain New York City flair. Russell continues to create living considerations of her repertoire that compel and delight.