Introduction: I am a recording and performing jazz artist based in NYC. My jazz vocal coaching includes song interpretation, phrasing and rhythm and improvisation. I can also help you find keys, put together charts and create arrangements. In addition, I teach the basics of vocal technique such as breathing, placement and intonation through a variety of exercises.
"Silver, who writes her own arrangements and is also a skilled bandleader, released her debut album, Here In My Arms, in 2004. Her sophomore effort, Dream Awhile, didn't surface until five years later, released last December. I downloaded the new album from iTunes and knew from the opening track that Silver was something special. Indeed, if a name ever fit a performer, it is Silver's, for her voice is like pure sterling. Her phrasing is exquisite, her clarity and enunciation on par with the great Jo Stafford, and her breath control a talent so often and so wrongfully overlooked rivals Sinatra's".
Listening to Silver, the word "effortless" leaps to mind. Of course, we all know that such seeming effortlessness actually demands tremendous effort and discipline. And there's more than just assured ease to Silver's interpretations. The playlist for Dream Awhile includes 11 standards, each of which has been recorded hundreds of times. Yet, in each case, she makes these chestnuts newly interesting. Her interpretations aren't in any way radical, extreme or even particularly bold. What they are: thoughtful. From the tender ache of "The Song Is Ended" and deeper pain of "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" to the heated anticipation of "Falling In Love with Love" and openhearted integrity of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (from which Silver draws the album's title), you fully believe not only every word she is singing, but every emotion she is quietly, sometimes almost furtively, expressing." -- Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes
