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Live At The Kennedy Center (Roseanna Vitro album)

Live At The Kennedy Center
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Live album by Roseanna Vitro
Released April 11, 2006
Recorded September 16-17, 2005
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 65:12
Label Challenge Records
CR 73252
Producer Paul Wickliffe, Roseanna Vitro
Roseanna Vitro chronology
Tropical Postcards
(2004)Tropical Postcards2004
Live At The Kennedy Center
(2006)
The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer
(2008)The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer2008
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
All About Jazz 5/5 stars
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
JazzTimes favorable

Live At The Kennedy Center is the 10th album by jazz singer Roseanna Vitro. Recorded over the course of two consecutive nights in September 2005, it was released the following spring by Challenge Records.

The album received 4½ stars from AllMusic and 5 from All About Jazz, the latter citing pianist Kenny Werner's arrangements and "artful playing," as well as "Vitro's strong R&B chops" and "impressive command of jazz technique," while taking from both, "a rare and valuable lesson in abandonment to artistic impulse."

For AllMusic's Ken Dryden, this "adventurous concert" confirms his view of Vitro as "simply one of the best in the business," showcasing her versatility, technique, and sensitivity (the latter finding additional expression via 'the thoughtful lyric" written by Vitro for the album's final track, Bill Evans' "Epilogue.") Praising her "potent rhythm section," and, in particular, "Werner's inventive accompaniment" and "daredevil soloing," Dryden describes "the CD [a]s a perfect place to start for the novice or an automatic purchase for those already familiar with her work."


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