Toward Love
With Toward Love, the exceptional debut album by emerging jazz artist Deborah Latz, each song is truly a personal journey. With perfect control and a voice, which by turns is sexy, sultry and playful, Ms. Latz transforms each of these jazz standards into a story of her own.
release date May 25 2004
Deborah Latz vocals
Timo Elliston piano
Bob Bowen bass
Jimmy Wormworth drums
special guest
Ben Sher guitar
Michael Brorby recording & mixing
Acoustic Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Emily Lazar mastering
The Lodge, New York, NY
©Todd Weinstein Photography
Lind Pelletier art direction
album artwork / liner notes
critical acclaim for toward love
“Toward Love Featured on CBC Radio Two”
— After Hours Program January 2006
“...a sensibility that incites a lyric with her innate dramatic instincts... Strikes just the right note of coy mischievousness... ”
— Alan Bargebuhr, CADENCE
“Her voice rings with a fetching richness…. A marvelous vocal effort, beginning to end. I’m bewitched.”
— Dan McClenaghan, ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM
“Toward Love is a fabulous album. I love it!”
— Dominick Dunne, writer for VANITY FAIR
“Deborah [Latz] has one of the BEST new voices I’ve heard in a LONG time. Her phrasing and unique style is simply... elegant and versatile and spunky!”
— Jan Jenson, JAZZ NOW
“A sure-footed singer possessing a mature sound and an attractive, lived-in voice…”
— Andrew Rowan, NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD
“…Miss Latz is a passionate songstress... a delicate and intelligent style... Enough said, we have found a jazz vocalist of the highest quality... ”
— Eric Boisson, ERICNROLL.COM, France
“Folks who remember Deborah Latz’s wonderful one-woman show ‘Travels with Ma Own Self’ won’t be surprised by her evolution into a jazz singer. Better than that, her crisp, soulful voice has finally been captured on CD with ‘Toward Love’ ...”
“She [Deborah Latz] will be able to arouse that special feeling in the listener that he is hearing something familiar, yet at the same time, something entirely new and unknown.”
— Mate J. Gyorgy, FIDELIO ONLINE, JAZZ ALBUM OF THE WEEK, Hungary