Featuring (La Reserve Records)
Caity Gyorgy
Released November 2022
JAZZ FM 25 Best Jazz Albums of 2022
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About:
Caity Gyorgy (pronounced George) is a 2 time JUNO award winning Canadian vocalist known for singing bebop and swing music. She has performed at jazz clubs and 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, Bryn Roberts and Joe LaBarbera, 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. 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 is currently signed to Brooklyn label La Reserve Records and has released several albums of original and standard music with them including her two JUNO award winning albums “Now Pronouncing” and “Featuring” and her JUNO nominated album with pianist Mark Limacher titled “You’re Alike, You Two”.
Track Listing:
1. I Feel Foolish (Caty Gyorgy) 3:09
2. Cover Up (Caty Gyorgy) 6:06
3. It Might As Well Be Spring (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) 4:52
4. Start Again (Caty Gyorgy) 5:04
5. A Moment (Caty Gyorgy) 5:34
6. Look The Other Way (Caty Gyorgy) 7:54
7. I Miss Missing You (Caty Gyorgy) 4:20
8. ‘Tis Autumn (Henry Nemo) 4:35
9. My Cardiologist (Caty Gyorgy) 4:07
10. Ideal (Caty Gyorgy) 6:11
11. I Never Knew (Caty Gyorgy) 4:57
12. The Feeling is Mutual (Caty Gyorgy) 4:14
13. It’s Pronounced George (Caty Gyorgy) 4:48
Personnel:
Caity Gyorgy: vocals
Felix Fox-Pappas: piano
Thomas Hainbuch: upright bass
Jacob Wutzke: drums
Guests
Daniel Barta: alto saxophone (1)
Christine Jensen: alto saxophone (2, 13)
Kyle Pogline: trumpet (3)
Jocelyn Gould: guitar (4, 7)
Allison Au: alto saxophone (5)
Lucas Dubovik: tenor saxophone (6)
Pat LaBarbera tenor saxophone (8)
Kyle Tarder-Stoll tenor saxophone (9)
Virginia MacDonald: clarinet (10, 13)
Tymish Koznarsky: alto saxophone (11)
Laura Anglade: vocals (12)
Recorded by Seungwoo Han, Brandon Wells
Mixed by Suengwoo Han
Mastered by Reuben Ghose
Photos by Ted Kadonoff
Album Art by Matilda Armstrong
All tracks produced by Eric Wong
Tracks 1, 3, 8, 11 produced by Eric Wong and Melanie Frade
Review:
The rumours are true: Juno-winning vocalist Caity Gyorgy is writing her own songbook and is knocking it out of the park with each release. On Featuring, she’s dynamic, clever, witty, inventive, highly musical, and an absolute delight as she stands equal to a stable of serious talent on each track, including Jocelyn Gould, Allison Au, Virginia MacDonald, Christine Jensen and more. It’s a crisp, clear, vibrant recording from a delightful, ascending young singer.
Alex Pangman (Jazz.FM91)
