Marianne Solivan - Prisoner Of Love (2012)

New York native, Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory graduate, and 2009 and 2010 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition Finalist Marianne Solivan makes a stunning recording debut with a stellar supporting cast of her favorite collaborators culled from the cream of the crop of New York's jazz musicians: trumpeter Jeremy Pelt (producer & special guest), guitarist Peter Bernstein, pianists Xavier Davis and Michael Kanan, bassists Christian McBride and Ben Wolfe, and drummer Johnathan Blake. "Prisoner of Love" showcases the vocalist in intimate duo, trio, and quartet settings in which she breathes fresh life into some of the best, but more seldom heard, entries in the Great American Songbook. Equal parts powerful and subtle, bold and sensitive, passionate and nuanced, skillful and sincere, Solivan pours meaning into every syllable, in the tradition of the master storytellers of the jazz vocal idiom, her idols Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae. "Prisoner of Love" exposes to the world what many in New York have known for some time... As pianist Rick Germanson puts it simply, Marianne Solivan is "the real deal."