Melissa Stylianou: Dream Dancing

Also known as part of the threesome vocal group Duchess, Melissa Stylianou shows she is comfortable going it alone, mixing and matching intimate settings with guitarist Ike Sturm and guitarist Gene Bertoncinin for a collection of mostly standards. Stylianou’s voice is clear, clean, comfortable in its wide range and casual in its swing. She coos in a trio take of “Sweet and Lovely” and hovers over the sustained tension of “If You Never Come To Me”. She shows her scat chops on a fun bopping read of “Perdido” and her delicate enunciation on “Corcovado”. She looks good dressed in nylon, as Bertoncini’s strings surround her on his intimate “For Chet”, while the duo of “My One And O nly Love” is resonant. Sturm and Stylianou are suave as they dance around each other on “It Could Happen To You” and the slinky through “Time’s A-Wastin’”. Spartan swing.

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