Lori Carsillo - Bittersweet (2002)

Introducing Lori Carsillo, a San Francisco vocalist with a distinctively intimate style. Lori's debut album, Bittersweet, is a collection of standards and lesser-known jazz tunes that create a vibe both noir and haunting, bright and transcending. The band features a number of the finest Bay Area musicians' Dave Mac Nab on guitar, John Shifflett on bass, Jason Lewis on drums & percussion, and keyboardist Michael Bluestein, with Eric Crystal on saxophone, Robin Bonnell on cello and Robby Virus on theremin. With unique arrangements and unexpected surprises, Bittersweet draws you into strangely familiar places, touching something put aside and almost forgotten.

Lori draws on a well-filled imagination pool accented with delightful surprises that hang on your ears with joy. -- Dr. Herb Wong, Jazz Education Journal, IAJE, May 2002