Jessica Molaskey: Sitting in Limbo

Jessica Molaskey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: P.S. Classics
• ASIN: B000O75EVO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,697 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

With her fourth album, Sitting in Limbo, Jessica Molaskey joins the ranks of the great jazz artists. The CD has its origins in Molaskey’s sold-out engagement at New York’s famed Algonquin Hotel in June of 2006, of which The New York Times raved, "She seamlessly carries off a tricky balance between fluid jazz singing and acting. This balancing act goes beyond juggling swing and theatrical savvy. It is embodied in her voice. Just below a surface bubbling with tenderness and cheer flows a current of sadness, which lends her performances a charge of emotional electricity." Surrounded by an extraordinary group of jazz musicians, including Grammy-nominated keyboardists Larry Goldings and Larry Fuller, the phenomenal sax player Harry Allen, and of course her husband, jazz guitarist & vocalist John Pizzarelli, Molaskey applies that "emotional electricity" to covers ranging from Jimmy Cliff to Sting to Billy Joel to Joni Mitchell, plus a few Molaskey-Pizzarelli originals. The results are disarming, captivating, stirring and irresistible.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One That Will Grow On You, November 24, 2008

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Doo "Ron" (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jessica Molaskey: Sitting in Limbo (Audio CD)

We got a copy of this CD (from Jessica actually, at the Cafe Carlisle) within days of its release, and were delighted to have it from the beginning. What has happened over time, however, is that we continually find ourselves returning to this wonderful set of performances. The Waters of March (which John Pizzarelli does solo in his act) coupled with Circle Game is marvelously inventive and endlessly fascinating to listen to. "Summer, Highland Falls" is a gem that is little known, and Jessica trumps the original. Another clever and captivating combination is the "Morning Has Broken/I Woke Up One Early Morning" piece. There is such variety on this CD, and the vocals are all superb. Not outwardly jazzy, and not theatrical either; a perfect blend. Don't miss it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great mix of songs, May 10, 2007

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oscar moore "music lover" (Rockville, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jessica Molaskey: Sitting in Limbo (Audio CD)

i love this cd. it is a terrific mix of new and old. the songs are wonderfully reimagined. summer, highland falls is dynamite. sitting in limbo is wonderfully pensive and deep. i don't get the unchartered territory business. this cd takes familiar songs to new places and quite cleverly. kudo, to mis. molaskey.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This album is definitely her route to a wider success., May 14, 2007

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Marie deVarenne (Boston, MA and Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jessica Molaskey: Sitting in Limbo (Audio CD)

Music, it would seem, has been in her blood from the start.
Her new album is the first, fully polished Jessica Molaskey album.
A mix of jazz standards, reinterpreted plus some new stuff.
She has rapidly become one of the most talked about voices on the jazz circuit, thanks to her smooth, sultry vocal style, and her ability to really inhabit the songs that she sings.
This CD is an instant smash among the jazz fraternity, and for sure will catapult Jessica into the limelight she seemed born to live and work with.
Along with her hubby, acclaimed guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli, there are some other great jazz stars like sax master Harry Allen to help Jessica to take off.
Enjoy.