There's some backbeat stuff such as "The Man Who Has to Roam" and on Chick Corea's "500 Miles High" with David Crozier's flute playing a prominent role. To provide some diversity of style, she shows her ballad skills on "You've Changed" and on a haunting "Our Lonely Hearts" backed by Ernie Watts' soulful tenor saxophone.
Jannotta realizes a steady diet of that genre wears quickly. Her preference for vocalese notwithstanding, Ms. Jannotta's light, melodic voice is well-suited to this style, except when she tries to reach higher notes, she tends to screech a bit. There's a rare vocal version of Thelonious Monk's "Well You Needn't," subtitled "It's All Over Now," with Mike Ferro's lyrics.
Vocalese preferences like Horace Silver's "Doodlin'" and Hampton Hawe's "Jackie," with Annie Ross' lyrics, all are offered with the stream-of-consciousness vocalizing that characterizes vocalese. Citing Annie Ross as her idol and Jon Hendricks, Al Jarreau, and Bobby McFerrin as major influences, Toni Jannotta devotes a good part of her first album to the vocalese style as well as showcasing her lyric writing skills.
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