"... Meredith
d'Ambrosio sings like a flock of angels...
She is the most sophisticated singer I have heard
on
record since Irene Kral. Sensitive, delicate,
melodic, illuminating, her voice has haunted my
heart..."
Rex Reed
Daily News
"... Ornithologically speaking, Meredith
d'Ambrosio is a
little jazz bird that every 'jazz birder' will
want to include
as a rare species - and a must on his/her life
list."
Herb Wong
"This gentle, warm, low-key singer is
a sort of contralto Blossom Dearie or a latter
day Jeri Southern. Like Dearie,
she seeks out recherche songs with strong lyrics."
Leonard Feather
L.A. Times
Meredith in 1984
photo by Homer Clark
Portland, Oregon.
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"... Meredith d'Ambrosio's warm, throaty
and subtle
phrasing has made her a favorite among musicians..."
John S. Wilson
N.Y. Times
"...Meredith has gone beyond singing variations
on melodies, doing something totally different
than anyone else in jazz, as far as I know, ever
did before. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
and others wrote new melodies on the chord changes
of existing songs. Meredith is doing that, writing
fluent andoften ingenious variations on known
tunes, but doing something else besides: writing
variation on the lyrics as well, new words suggested
by the old.
She calls her inventions 'paraphrase songs' ..."
Gene Lees
"... I simply can't say enough about Meredith.
Here is a
singer and musician who knows her own voice in
a way
that the best soloists in jazz know their instruments..."
Nels Nelson
Philadelphia Daily News
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Meredith in 1964.
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"... Meredith's voice is husky and sultry;
there's an
intimacy about it, as if she's whispering in your
ear."
Lee Jeske
Down Beat
"... d'Ambrosio is a highly respected vocalist
with several recordings to her credit, on some
of which she is her own piano accompanist. She
is a subtle, thoughtful interpreter, a creative
lyricist and improviser and a well-rounded musician.
She is one of those rare individuals who can make
you focus totally on a song and perhaps change
your way of listening."
Lois Moody
Ottawa Citizen
"Meredith d'Ambrosio is a highly accomplished
singer... hers is a voice filled with sweetness
and reflection and her tone
and phrasing is without the slightest mark of
innuendo..."
Christian Tarting
Impressions du Sud
France
Meredith in 1984
photo by Homer Clark
Portland, Oregon.
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"The voice of Meredith d'Ambrosio... is of
unique
personality and interpretation. A delicate and
full contralto, dark and breathy, rich in shading,
intimately warm, a melting elegant fragility,
all
combines for the moving experience in hearing
her..."
Luciano Federighi
Musica Jazz
Italy
"The magic of Meredith d'Ambrosio's art
is quite
beyond definition and her style is difficult to
put
into words that even approximate the effects she
achieves... her delivery is implicitly erotic."
W. Royal Stokes
Jazz Times
"... Meredith is an artist. Intelligence.
Taste. Restraint.
Sublety. Insinuation. Harmonic sensibility and
voice production that seems effortless..."
Doug Ramsey
Jazz Times
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Meredith in Florida
Photo by
Jacci Williams
2000
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"Don't believe, dear friends, the propaganda
by our
fellow journalists. The most important jazz singer
of today is Meredith d'Ambrosio..."
Bertrand Ravalad
So What
Paris
"Enveloping the listener with a warm shimmering
glow, d'Ambrosio's voice is emotional without
being contrived, professional without being too
slick."
Cashbox
"Meredith d'Ambrosio is that rarity -
a sincere and
completely uncommercial singer. Not for Meredith
any
hack numbers, regardless of the fame of the composer.
The songs by the well-known composers are not
their
most popular efforts, but their most musical!"
Jimmy Staples
Crescendo
London
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