Julie Lyon Quintet - Julie (2013/2017) [Hi-Res]

"Julie Lyon Quintet is the best cure for the blues... Julie will give you almost an hour of warm, sincere and very cozy jazz. This American vocalist and her partners do not seek to create some bold experiments, avant-garde delights or to display the power of the voice. The voice of Julie Lyon is not about free rein sound but rather depth of experience and the aura of the truth of jazz will not leave you from the first track to the last." -– Leonid Auskern, Jazzquad, Russia

"Perhaps the most interesting element in this recording is the 'live in studio' nature lending a great deal of atmosphere and beatnik cafe society vibe to the affair. Well, actually, I'm assuming it was thus live 'cause it sure as hell sounds it—if not, if there are overdubs and such, then Tom Tedesco possesses some supernatural talents as an engineer. Singer Julie Lyon exhibits a large element of the happy-go-lucky in her swinging recitations, perhaps most vividly shown in her take on Dindi, about the snappiest version I've heard yet in a song that's been undergoing quite a renaissance in revisitations recently. Then there are the laid back, casual, way hip quotations from the quartet backing her, sounding as though just returned from a break in the back alley where the subject of 'discussion' was muggles, Jack Daniels, and maybe a nip or two of Romilar." -- Mark S. Tucker