Catherine Russell - Bring It Back (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Jazz and blues vocalist Catherine Russell, a native of New York City, was born with distinctive bloodlines. "Bring It Back", her latest album, is a retro collection of tunes culled from the birth of jazz through the rhythm and blues resurrection, with a nod to the swing era in between. And if there is any singer with the kind of chops to sell this kind of musical variety, Russell is that singer. Not only does she have a voice like rich, aged brandy, not only does she exude the rhythmic joy the music demands, this is music that is in her blood. After all, her mother is the great jazz pioneer Carline Ray, and her father, arranger Luis Russell, was longtime leader of the Louis Armstrong band. With a pedigree like that, how can she miss? - She doesn't.