"I would like to call your attention to an authentic jazz singer named Carmen Lundy. She's got it all."
- Gary Giddins, The Village Voice
Reviews
December 20, 2009
Carmen Lundy, SOLAMENTE (Afrasia)
By Mark Holston
Listeners neednÕt scan the credits to find out whoÕs playing what on Carmen LundyÕs latest recording. The multitalented Miami native fills the roles of vocalist, lyricist, composer,...
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December 1, 2009
Carmen Lundy, SOLAMENTE (Afrasia)
By Christopher Loudon
In both Italian and Spanish, ÒsolamenteÓ translates as ÒonlyÓ, ÒaloneÓ or ÒjustÓ. Whichever you choose, it aptly describes the bravura tour de force that is Carmen LundyÕs...
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June 8, 2009
Carmen Lundy / Solamente
Sometimes in the too-easy haze of these early-21st century days I fear something has gotten lost in music. Sometimes I think in all the frittering & Twittering weÕve lost sight of the beating heart that should...
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April 13, 2008
By Bob Weinberg | Special Correspondent
April 13, 2008
"My sister, I remember her/Wearing pigtails, running through the sun in our back yard." Miami-born jazz vocalist and composer Carmen Lundy vividly calls up a childhood reminiscence...
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March 1, 2008
COME HOME is Carmen LundyÕs amazing follow up to her exceptional recording titled JAZZ AND THE NEW SONGBOOK: LIVE AT THE MADRID. The set features 12 songs written or co-written by Lundy with the exception of ÒNature Boy.Ó Among her brilliant...
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February 21, 2008
Come Home
Afrasia Productions
A gifted, expressive vocalist, Carmen Lundy could safely stick with the Great American Songbook and forever bask in the glow of critical acclaim.
But the multi-talented, questing performer, whoÕs a...
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February 20, 2008
Review by Michael G. Nastos
4 stars
Carmen Lundy's follow-up recording to her extraordinary Jazz and the New Songbook: Live at the Madrid is a studio effort emphasizing her compositions co-written by various others. As her credentials...
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September 13, 2007
Carmen Lundy at Ronnie Scott's
**** Ronnie Scott's, London
If the rule is that jazz singers don't write their own songs then Carmen Lundy is a resounding exception. Since the late 1970s, the American has penned material so...
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September 11, 2007
CARMEN IS NO PRETENDER
By Jack Massarik, Evening Standard 11.09.07
Fiercely artistic and moderately eccentric, the very likeable Carmen Lundy hit town last night with a terrific new US group behind her dramatic vocals. Covering for...
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March 7, 2007
L.A. Master Chorale preserves Mary Lou Williams' spirit
By Don Heckman, Special to The Times
Mary Lou Williams' place in the jazz pantheon has more often been honored in principle rather than performance. Highly...
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September 12, 2006
JAZZ REVIEW
Carmen Lundy shows off her own, mature songbook
By Don Heckman, Special to The Times
Despite the implied survey of contemporary composers suggested by the title of Sunday night's "Jazz and the New Songbook...
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September 12, 2006
JAZZ HAS A NEW SONGBOOK
By Paula Edelstein
Innovative, exuberant and now controversial (in a great way), Carmen Lundy has, in her 30-year career, found both popular appeal and intellectual appreciation for her emotional...
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July 20, 2006
Carmen Lundy 'Jazz and the New Songbook. Live at the Madrid'
> 2CD(Afrasia) 5 Stars of 5
In an age where the female jazz vocalist is exalted, one of the continuing mysteries is why Carmen Lundy has not been universally...
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June 19, 2006
Live at The Ford, Jazz and The New Songbook Artists
Dear Ms. Lundy,
I have been a jazz fan all of my life and cannot believe I have just found you and your music.
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon and I was...
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May 15, 2006
Live Interview with Leroy Downs and Carmen Lundy:
www.thejazzcat.net...
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March 1, 2006
While watching Carmen Lundy sing her new songs at the Madrid Theater in Los Angeles, you begin to feel as though youÕre a part of her circle. With friends all around her on stage, the singer delivers her program with the kind of intimacy that youÕd...
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February 23, 2006
Listening to Carmen Lundy "live" on Jazz and the New Songbook: Live at the Madrid is truly a remarkable experience and solidifies the adage that she is in a class all her own. On this exceptional two-disc set, the multi-talented vocalist performs 18...
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February 21, 2006
With this live two-disc set recorded in the Los Angeles area, Carmen Lundy sings original songs that sheÕs created in order to communicate exactly what she feels about the state of jazz in this new century. SheÕs also a painter who uses oils on...
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February 13, 2006
It was probably close to twenty years ago that I saw Carmen Lundy perform in a small group setting to a non-jazz audience; she sang her own lyrical compositions. My thoughts were that it wouldn't be long before she would become a public persona....
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February 10, 2006
Jazz vocalist and oil painter Carmen Lundy shares both her passions as she tours in support of her latest album, Jazz and the New Songbook: Live at the Madrid....
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February 1, 2006
A major figure on the world stage of jazz singing for many years, this latest release by Carmen Lundy vividly demonstrates why she is held in such high regard by fans and fellow artists alike. Recorded live at the Madrid Theatre in Los Angeles in...
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January 16, 2006
One of the more dynamic vocal presences on the current scene, Carmen Lundy's new live set is absolutely compelling. The stellar musicianship, original choices of material, and Lundy's flexible, exuberant, deeply hewn voice, hallmark this...
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January 10, 2006
One can only imagine the effort & hard work that goes into creating the type of vocal-instrumental disc which jazz singer Carmen Lundy has created for us to enjoy. The frosting is that all these fine musical missives are from the creative intellect...
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December 7, 2005
As a long-time fan of Carmen Lundy,IÕm certainly a little bit biased when it comes to CarmenÕs music. She hardly can do no wrong for me so itÕs certainly no surprise for you that I think her new double live album is one of the best live jazz albums...
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February 18, 2005
Jazz chanteuse/songwriter Carmen Lundy was introduced by the Rev. Peter F. O'Brien as the exception to the rule that pop singers are expected to do originals and jazz performers are supposed to interpret established material. The material proved...
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April 12, 2004
Like her kindred spirits Abbey Lincoln and Dianne Reeves, jazz vocalist Carmen Lundy always leaves the impression that she'd rather not sing...
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January 22, 2004
When Carmen Lundy burst on the New York City jazz scene two decades ago, she impressed the critics and began collecting a devoted following of fans.
Seven albums later, she still stuns audiences from St. Louis to Brazil with her...
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November 28, 2003
With her fine 1997 album Old Devil Moon, the subtle and rich-toned American singer Carmen Lundy delivered a convincing indication of her stature as an intelligent contemporary appraiser of the legacy of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan - updating...
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November 12, 2003
This amazingly talented woman has been among my personal faves for the past several years, but hadn't seen her until last nite at Yoshi's.
Talk about something being worth the wait...WOW!
In an electrifying, exciting,...
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January 31, 2003
Nothing brings out the best in vocalist Carmen Lundy faster than a broken heart. Or at least that's the impression left by "This Is Carmen Lundy," where sad songs easily trump romantic musings.
"All Day, All...
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February 21, 2002
A big slice of jazz lies in the art of the trio, the fluid interconnection of improvising piano, bass and drums. It is always fascinating to hear what different stories these three acoustic instruments can create together, whether on their own or...
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November 25, 2001
This review first appeared in the November 25, 2001 edition of the American Reporter.
So just where are the new standards?
It seems a fair question — how many times and for how long can we demand covers of...
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August 15, 1999
In the role as principal vocalist, Carmen Lundy's dark vocals and crisp articulation navigated through erudite poise on stately sections like "I Have A Dream" to brimstone passion like "Lazarus (The Baggar Man)." During the more...
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July 31, 1999
Special kudos are reserved for the versatile Ms. Lundy, an operatically trained contralto whose dark lower register bears an uncanny richness and who clearly invested quite a lot into this work, addressing it joyfully and with great expressiveness...
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June 24, 1999
The dilemma of jazz singing is this: What is one to do with the words in an art form that is primarily nonverbal? How does one tell a story-since songs are all stories-while still retaining the fundamental jazz qualities of improvisation and...
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April 14, 1999
...Carter's gift for rapid-fire improvisation and total engagement with her musicians came through most strongly on "Star Eyes," featuring singer Carmen Lundy and Greg Tardy in a series of energized dialogues...
...Two vocal...
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March 29, 1999
Chris Bacas' airy flute introduces both "I Have A Dream" (a brief snippet of text from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s fabled speech)and the luminous vocal presence and confident authority of Lundy, who also brought sorrowful serenity to...
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September 18, 1998
Carmen Lundy, the subtle, graceful and hauntingly dramatic singer from Miami, shared the stage at The Jazz Cafe with a huge vase of flowers.
Unexpectedly for an artist, who, like her inspiration Betty Carter, enjoys springing her ideas...
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January 1, 1980
Jazz singing, a specialized dimension of jazz for which my passion is generally unsatisfied, has brought me numberless hours of sheer masochism: the white girls who think Annie Ross is the quintessence of hip, the black girls who think Aretha...
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