Melissa Morgan Quartet at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society

The respected Herb Wong says "Melissa Morgan is a contagious- true jazz singer- and she simply grows on you with intoxication." A review of her debut CD- "Until I Met You-" describes Morgan as a jazz vocalist with a bluesy- soulful- R&B-tinged approach. Morgan- however- isn't a belter or a shouter of the Ernestine Anderson variety- and she isn't bluesy- soulful- and R&B-tinged in an aggressive or forceful way. Rather- she favors a more laid-back and relaxed sort of grit- drawing on influences that include Dinah Washington- Nancy Wilson- Billie Holiday and Shirley Horn. But Morgan is more improvisation-minded and jazz-oriented than Wilson- who has often favored jazz-influenced traditional pop and jazz-influenced R&B over straight-ahead vocal jazz...

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The respected Herb Wong says "Melissa Morgan is a contagious- true jazz singer- and she simply grows on you with intoxication." A review of her debut CD- "Until I Met You-" describes Morgan as a jazz vocalist with a bluesy- soulful- R&B-tinged approach. Morgan- however- isn't a belter or a shouter of the Ernestine Anderson variety- and she isn't bluesy- soulful- and R&B-tinged in an aggressive or forceful way. Rather- she favors a more laid-back and relaxed sort of grit- drawing on influences that include Dinah Washington- Nancy Wilson- Billie Holiday and Shirley Horn. But Morgan is more improvisation-minded and jazz-oriented than Wilson- who has often favored jazz-influenced traditional pop and jazz-influenced R&B over straight-ahead vocal jazz. Her fans are many in the SF/Bay Area- as evidenced by the enthusiastic response she elicited at her concert at Piedmont Piano Co. in Oakland in August 2013- and at Yoshi's Oakland in 2009. Mellissa was one of four featured artists to an enthusiastic audience at Yoshi's San Francisco on October 20- 2013- at the 6th Annual San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival.

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