Charleston For You

5.0 out of 5 stars A First Lady of Song July 5, 2012

By Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Audio CD

Style, elegance, impeccable musicality, chanteuse extraordinaire - they all apply to the amazing Lisa Kirchner. For this listener this is her strongest album to date - more variation, more variety of accompaniment, more pizzazz, more tenderness. Take an hour out the day to be transformed by this musical stylist!
Not only does Lisa Kirchner have a voice of great beauty and a sense of poetry in the way she delivers lyrics, but she also happens to be a rather fine composer - a trait she shares with five of the twelve songs she sings here. Probably a bit of her artistry in performing and composing is in her genetic nature; her father was the late brilliant classical composer Leon Kirchner.This combination of musical styles and sung in English, French and Portuguese is as exciting as any new recording by a female vocalist to be release this year. Lisa Kirchner is on top of her form and this Album simply has it all. Grady Harp, July 12

"charleston for you" is a winning album by lisa kirchner. with glowing strings, supple horns, and understated guitar licks, working at a low register, lisa pushes her voice, here getting hot, there teasing love, dream and scream into microdramas. it's the beginning, and end, of a great partnership. As bruce once sang: "she's all that heaven will allow."   john shelton ivany/jsitop21.com  

Lisa Kirchner’s 5^th solo vocal album, Charleston For You, is available at amazon.com at the Verdant World Records Store. There are songs by Lisa Kirchner, and by Galt MacDemot and Lisa Kirchner, Janis Ian, Michel Emer, George Gershwin, Baden Powell and Caetano Veloso. The album is classified as Jazz though you will additionally find French, Brazilian, Folk, Roots, pop and AC. The musicians include Tommy Mandel and Philip Namanworth on piano, Galt MacDermot and Mark Berman on keyboards, Walter Kuehr on accordion, Yosuke Inoue and John Miller on bass, Paul Ostermayer on saxophone, Ron Jackson on guitar, Adam Cruz and Sue Evans on drums.