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| AllAboutJazz – New York December 2005 “Venues for jazz come and go. Fortunately these past months have seen the former with openings of Enzo’s Jazz in midtown and Night and Day in Park Slope. Brought to us by the same folks who run one of the Village’s most pleasing jazz haunts - Cornelia St. Cafe’s sister venue in Brooklyn looks to share a similar cast of programming. Vocalist Deborah Latz officially uncorked the new venue’s music schedule (Nov. 6th) with Daniela Schaechter (piano), Debbie Kennedy (bass) and Elizabeth Keledjian (drums), their opening set featuring delectably interpreted jazz standards (save one original - “Jump In”). The very live and intimate room quickly proved the sound system superfluous, notes reverberating off the newly installed cherry wood floors, glass ceiling with view of ominous rain clouds overhead and French doors looking out to passers-by. The dynamic Latz displayed a level of empathy in her choice material, volume never becoming the issue it may have under less sensitive a vocalist and trio. From her sultry controlled tone on “Witchcraft” and personal rendition of “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, Latz warmly crooned to the venue’s inaugural crowd with enunciating clarity and lyrical familiarity. She patiently worked through time-tested melodies found on her year-old debut Toward Love: “Lover Man”, “The Thrill is Gone” and of course the club’s namesake - Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”.” – Laurence Donohue-Greene |
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