Margret Avery
New York City, New York, United States | INDIE
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"Margret's soaring vocals fit perfectly within the smooth jazz piano and guitar riffs. We're elated to have this CD in rotation on Langiappe Jazz"
Mark Glynn - New Orleans Radio
"Margret Avery has a very different style, emphasizing long notes, contributing five songs (three of which were co-written with her keyboardist Daryl Kojak) and often interpreting her repertoire at thoughtful ballad tempos. While she performs a rambunctious “Wild Women Don’t Get The Blues” and revives “Autumn Leaves” and “The Island,” most of the material heard on A Place That’s Make Believe is quite fresh and full of insightful lyrics. Joined by a four-piece rhythm section that includes guitarist Kenny Brescia, Margret Avery (who is mostly heard in New York) manages to be both emotional and laidback, direct yet subtle. This is an intriguing set, available from myspace.com/margretavery." Scott Yanow - LA Jazz Scene - LA Jazz Scene
I love the title song....plan to use it for my 2nd film - when kiren met karen...it's deep emotional introspective - manan singh katohora http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manankatohora/ - Manan Katahorah
" Margret Avery's musicality includes a good voice, breath control for a nice long line and a sense of rhythm. Her dramatic good looks...combined with a sly good humor make up an almost lost attribute these days: glamour." Lee Ryan - WBAI-FM
Discography
A Place That's Make Believe - 2002
cdbaby.com/cd/mavery1
www.myspace.com/margretavery
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Bio
In 1985 Margret did her first performance in a Manhattan Cabaret Room and her love affair with performing continues. While in Paris some years ago Margret had the pleasure of singing with Duke Jordan in an impromptu performance and has also graced the stages in NYC, Milan and Woodstock. Margret's musicality is an innate sensibility to what the genre of jazz and blues offer, the spiritual and soulful
connectedness of her style is what grabs at her audience. Her CD, A Place That's Make Believe was released in 2002 and is sold on cdbaby.com It drew the attention of the director Manan Singh Katohora to use the title song in his next indie film 'When Kiren Met Karen'.
"We're elated to have this CD in rotation on Langiappe Jazz." Mark Glynn -New Orleans Radio
" most of the material heard on a Place That's Make Believe is quite fresh and full of insightful lyrics..... Margret Avery manages to be both emotional and
laidback, direct yet subtle." Los Angeles Jazz Scene
- March 2007- by Scott Yanow
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