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LiSTENiNG TO THE JAZZ SiNGER GABRiELLE STRAVELLi iS LiKE iMBiBiNG A POTENT COCKTAiL

whose flavor changes as you drain the glass…She dipped and swooped, twirling notes and phrases with a confidence and playfulness that recalled Ella Fitzgerald in her prime…”
-The New York Times

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PRESS

“Ms. Stravelli’s emotional intelligence coincides with a phenomenal voice that she wielded with an easygoing confidence and impeccable taste. Her clear, rounded timbre, reminiscent at times of Ella Fitzgerald’s, didn’t strain for effect. A formidable scat improviser, she held back enough so that I never felt that she was indulging in empty display. Her twirling of notes and phrases infused her performance with extra energy. She swings playfully, without seeming to try.”

— The New York Times

“Just when the shore of song seems lost for all the fog, the voice of Gabrielle Stravelli cuts through like a lighthouse of emotional integrity.”

— Downbeat (5 Stars)

“Hot stuff. It’s certainly a swinging, grown up record for grown up times that just simply kicks ass. Get on board so you can still catch the tail end of claiming you knew about her first. She can trumpet the fact that hot shots from Wynton Marsalis, Fred Hersch and Bob Dorough all adore her, as have audiences around the world.”

— Midwest Record

“Truly special. Gabrielle Stravelli is an absolute arresting talent…”

— Buffalo News

“Gabrielle Stravelli has stuck to her artistic vision, and gone forward where others might have compromised or thrown in the towel.”

— Jersey Jazz

“Gabrielle Stravelli is a very talented musician who obviously has a great future... Dream Ago is filled with fresh, melodic and unpredictable music from a brilliant and inventive singer who is still in the early stages of her career.”

— Los Angeles Jazz Scene

“The jazz singer reinvents and honors the country-western great, playing with the music but never messing with the message. That last number, from which the album draws its title, may be her most remarkable transformation here; Mr. Nelson’s own treatment is highly confessional, but Ms. Stravelli’s is not only that. It’s like a sprawling blues testimonial, in the manner of Charlie Parker’s “Parker’s Mood,” not to mention part spiritual, part sermon and part eulogy.”

— The Wall Street Journal

“The first thing you will notice about Gabrielle Stravelli is that voice: Unforced, earthy, flexible, playful and unpretentious, her jazzy/cool spectrum of colors offers twirls of tremolos and trills that never sound like tricks.”

— Stage and Cinema