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MACY GRAY - 25. 3. 2017 Brno - Sono centrum

Written by promotion@echopromotion.cz / March 02, 2017

Though Macy Gray is a multi-platinum/Grammy award winning pop artist, she thinks of herself as a jazz singer. Performing with jazz bands is how she got her start, and it’s what Gray does on her new Chesky Records release Stripped, a collection of reimagined songs from her catalog, three new originals and two covers.

“My style of music is really jazz, even if you listen to ‘I Try,’” she says, referring to the Grammy-winning hit song from her 1999 debut, which made Gray a household name. “That’s how I learned to sing, in jazz bands with a piano player and a drummer and a bassist, playing brunches and little jazz rooms at 3 in the morning.”

She brings that intimate, late-night feel to Stripped, opening the album with the subtly searing new tune “Annabelle” and turning “I Try” into a glimmering study in muted guitar, anchored by an authoritative upright bass part. It’s one of five previously recorded songs that Gray and an ace band reinterpret. “Sweet Baby” becomes taut and urgent, “Slowly” unfolds into a slow-burner, “The First Time” has a torchy elegance and “She Ain’t Right for You” bobs along on an airy reggae backbeat.

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