![]() ![]() Relaxed, almost cool, yet with a natural warmth and an attitude in which modesty and nonchalance go hand in hand, she steps back behind the songs, singing and swinging, and putting herself unreservedly in their service. She makes the impression of a born singer. “Marty Elkins doesn’t roar at the top of her lungs to impress people. MARCUS WOELFLE, AUTHOR, JAZZ JOURNALIST, EDITOR OF “JAZZ ZEITUNG” AND JAZZ VIOLINIST/REVIEW OF “IN ANOTHER LIFE” This is a session where everything works, displaying the special talents of a genuine jazz singer who can get a tight grip on your attention, singing with deep conviction.” Truly one of a kind, she sounds like no other singer, past or present. It’s a love affair with the music, with every song she sings, caressing every note. What she does do is apply to them an intense understanding of, and feeling for, every note of the lyrics. She doesn’t need to go into exotic or esoteric jazz compositions to prove her jazz worthiness.she mostly stays with good solid standards. Such is the case with this newcomer to the scene, Marty Elkins. There are those relatively rare ones who can’t help but being thought of as jazz singers because they are so profoundly expressive and and sensitive in their delivery that there’s no doubt of total commitment. “One of jazz’s persisting question is the matter of who is a jazz singer and who is not.and then. Among the other songs on the program are “If I Could Be with You,” “Runnin’ Wild,” “Comes Love,” “I’ll Never Be the Same, and the title tune, “Walkin’ By the River.” This is a new recording, but has the feeling of a session from the 1930s, and that is a good thing! (DICK NEELD,JERSEY JAZZ/REVIEW OF “FUSE BLUES” This song is associated with the legendary Lee Wiley, a singer whose influence is detectible when you listen to Elkins. It is fitting that “Down in Steamboat Tennessee” is included. The songs are well suited to her jazz infused vocalizing. She has assembled a top-notch roster of musicians to accompany her, including Jon-Erik Kellso on trumpet, Howard Alden on guitar, Joel Diamond on organ, Steve Ash on piano, Lee Hudson on bass and Taro Okamoto on drums. This says a lot about the state of the music business in this day and age. When you listen to her sing the 13 songs on this disc, you will wonder why she has so few recordings, and why no domestic label has added her to their roster. She hails from New Jersey, and has been on the New York/New Jersey scene for a few decades, but this is only her third album, all of them released on the German record label Nagel Heyer. Vocalist MARTY ELKINS has a terrific new album, Walkin’ By the River (Nagel Heyer – 119). JOE LANG/JERSEY JAZZ SOCIETY/REVIEW OF "WALKIN' BY THE RIVER"
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