Laura Theodore - Tonight's the Night (2012) Lossless

Cleveland, OH native Laura Theodore is a jazz-oriented singer with blues, rock, and R&B leanings; she is also a talented actress who is known for her on-stage portrayals of the late rocker Janis Joplin. Although jazz has been Theodore's primary focus in the '90s and 2000s -- at least as a recording artist -- she is far from a jazz snob or a jazz purist, and has a long history of performing rock, blues, R&B, cabaret, and traditional pop. The singer/actress has brought a wide variety of influences to the studio, and not all of them embraced straight-ahead jazz exclusively. Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Peggy Lee are influences; there are also hints of Ruth Brown, Bette Midler, and Nancy Wilson in her work. (That's Nancy Wilson the pop/jazz singer, not Nancy Wilson of the hard rock/arena rock band Heart).
On this recording, Laura's collaborator is Don Rebic, a gifted pianist /composer/ conductor / arranger. Together, these two supreme young artists enliven and freshen the fusion of jazz and pop.
Guest Artists: Joe Beck, Randy Brecker, Andy Snitzer, Dave Taylor, Jim Pugh, Lou Marini. Producer : Andy Ebberbach; Laura Theodore. Engineer : Andy Ebberbach The New York Post declares Ms. Theodore "An amalgam of the musical wisdom of the ages and the power of the present day sound, an extraordinary four-octave singer who blends jazz, blues, soul and pop into seemingly the only possible expression.