Daria - Strawberry Fields Forever - Songs By the Beatles (CD) - CD

Details: Whether scatting across the crisp accents of a driving cluster of jazz horns, or blending into the intimacy of a jazz trio, Daria finds the beating musical heart of whatever she is singing. And so it goes with Strawberry Fields Forever, her wide-ranging, musically rich tribute to the Lennon and McCartney songs of the Beatles. Along with fellow arranger and bassist Sam Bevan, Daria approaches the challenge of presenting some of the 20th Century's most popular works by allowing her rich vocal timbre and deep musical sense the opportunity to discover new interpretive possibilities in the music. With over a dozen top-flight Bay-area musicians contributing, Daria reinvents ten Beatles classics - including big hits such as "Come Together" and "Can't Buy Me Love," and the less commonly performed "Fixing a Hole" and "Julia" - and closes out the set with her own composition, "She's Going Home." ; "... a voice that utterly captivated me the first time I heard it. The voice of Daria in action... a singer with the talent to place her in the upper levels of the jazz vocal art." - Don Heckman, International Review of Music