Artist: Jessica Molaskey
Title: Make Believe
Year Of Release: 2004/2024
Label: Center Stage Records
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: 24Bit/44 kHz FLAC
Total Time: 00:46:38
Total Size: 233 mb


Tracklist:

01. Jessica Molaskey - I Can't Say No
02. Jessica Molaskey - Guys and Dolls
03. Jessica Molaskey - Make Believe
04. Jessica Molaskey - Stepsisters' Lament
05. Jessica Molaskey - Glad to be Unhappy
06. Jessica Molaskey - Hey, Look Me Over
07. Jessica Molaskey - So Many People
08. Jessica Molaskey - Cloudburst / Getting Married Today
09. Jessica Molaskey - Growing Pains
10. Jessica Molaskey - All That Jazz
11. Jessica Molaskey - Right as the Rain
12. Jessica Molaskey - You're a Builder Upper
13. Jessica Molaskey - Cradle and All
14. Jessica Molaskey - Goodnight My Someone

With her combination of jazzy cool and kittenish charm, it's probably safe to say that Jessica Molaskey has entered the realm of "phone book singers," i.e., those who you'd pay to hear vocalizing anything. As anyone who remembers her "Stars and the Moon" from Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World knows, Molaskey made her name in musical theater, and it's those roots she returns to in Make Believe after her previous solo albums covered the Depression era and '50s jazz. That includes chestnuts like "All That Jazz," which though familiar and obvious, still sound great, and representations from Broadway's new generation: Adam Guettel duets on Rodgers and Hart's "Glad to Be Unhappy," Brown arranges a frenetic combination of the Lambert Hendricks and Ross favorite "Cloudburst" and Stephen Sondheim's "Getting Married Today," and Ricky Ian Gordon cowrote with Molaskey "Cradle and All." As usual, husband-guitarist John Pizzarelli accompanies and vocalizes on a couple tunes, and Sondheim's gorgeous "So Many People" is another highlight.