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Erin Boheme - What Love Is
(Concord Jazz)
Released April 2006
Ms. Boheme showed up on my personal radar a couple of months ago, when
iTunes released the singe, "One Night With Frank," a tribute to Frank
Sinatra, as its
free single of the week. I filed it away, and remembered her name as one
to keep track of.
This week, my neighbor at Last FM,
Claiborne, recommended the song to me -
with the challenge to find all the Sinatra Titles in the lyrics. (There
are
Nineteen.)
So with a Starbucks in one hand, and a mouse in the other - I went back to
iTunes this morning, and found the whole album. More than half the cuts
are
co-written by Ms. Boheme. It's a stellar first outing. Ms. Boheme's
"Someone To Love" (Co-written with Blaine Greenberg and mark Portmann) is
a great
opener for this 11-cut set. Her originals are joined with some standards
by Sammy Cahn ("Teach Me Tonight"), Cole Porter ("Let's Do It"), and Peggy
Lee ("I
Love Being Here With You").
Hers is a young voice (she's only nineteen), but she displays the
confidence you'd expect in someone older. (Think Renee Olstead meets Amy
Winehouse.)
This disc (or download) is highly recommended. Ms. Boheme is going to have
quite a career, I think. As the story goes, Ms. Boheme was discovered by
(and is the protégé of/disc produced by) longtime LA jazz keyboard guy
Mike Melvoin, who discovered Ms. Boheme in his hometown.
They both hail from Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Oshkosh a birthplace of really good jazz. Who knew?
Three microphones (out of four)
- Doug Boynton
(04/08/06) |
