Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy (La Reserve Records)
Caity Gyorgy
Released July 2021
Juno Award Winner Vocal Jazz Album of the Year 2022
YouTube:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nJahHfKDP3tuCgK-XFA_YicBgCaa4vmH0
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4uhLfLaqoYyOww0elnoSyv?si=jIxgOxGYTZGD5uG3tPTU4A
About:
Caity Gyorgy (pronounced George) is 2 time JUNO award winning Canadian vocalist who is known for singing bebop and swing music. She has performed at popular clubs and jazz festivals across Canada, Mexico, Japan and the USA and has worked and recorded with incredible musicians including Christine Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, Jocelyn Gould, Ira Coleman, Joe LaBarbera, Allison Au, and Bryn Roberts, to name a few.
In addition to being a performer, Caity is an avid writer and composes songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. Her compositions have been sung by other vocalists around the world, and have won multiple awards including the Grand Prize in the jazz category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her song “Secret Safe”. She is also a sought after clinician and is currently on faculty as a vocal jazz instructor at the Yukon Summer Music Camp in Whitehorse, Yukon and the Interprovincial Music Camp in McKellar, Ontario.
She has released several albums of original and standard music. On July 9th, 2021 she released “Now Pronouncing”, an EP of original music arranged for large ensemble on Brooklyn based label La Reserve.
Track Listing:
1. Secret Safe 02:49
2. There By The Door 03:41
3. 12th Avenue 04:37
4. Why’d You Gotta 05:24
5. The B 03:33
Personnel:
Caity Gyorgy: vocals
Kyle Pogline: trumpet
Nick Forget: trombone
Virginia MacDonald: clarinet
Daniel Barta: alto saxophone
Lucas Dubovik: tenor saxophone
Kyle Tarder-Stoll: baritone saxophone
Felix Fox-Pappas: piano
Thomas Hainbuch: bass
Jacob Wutzke: drums
Eric Wong: flute (2)
Recorded
November 4th, 2019, at the Gordon Wragg Recording Studios in Toronto, Ontario
Produced
by Melanie Frade
Mixed and Recorded by Brandon Wells
Mastered by Reuben Ghose
Review:
Originally from Calgary, Canada, and currently studying for a master’s degree in jazz performance at McGill University in Montreal, vocalist, composer, arranger and bandleader Caity Gyorgy has been called one of ‘Eight Canadian women in jazz you need to know’ by Toronto’s JAZZ.FM91 radio station. Released on the Brooklyn-based La Reserve label, this five-track EP of self-penned songs provides a perfect showcase for Gyorgy’s multifarious talents, not least some impressive scatting on the effervescent, up-tempo ‘Secret Safe’, the assured arrangements for her tentet, the surprising harmonic twists and turns and memorable melodies of ‘There By The Door’ and ‘12th Avenue’, plus a wry, sardonic sense of humour as witnessed in the tableaux of infidelities depicted in the filmic ‘Why’d You Gotta’, which also features some fine soloing by clarinettist Virginia MacDonald and bari sax player Kyle Tarder-Stoll, and the similarly mocking ‘The B’, scored for voice, piano and an especially perky triangle.
Peter Quinn (Jazzwise)
