Rebekah Victoria: Songs of the Decades

Warm voiced Rebekah Victoria not only comes up with the clever idea of singing a song from each decade of the 20th Century, but she arranges them in clever and original formats. She’s teamed with a core of Rick Vandivier/g with all of the other drummers, bassists, percussionists, horns and strings mixing and matching. She takes the Golden Age flapper “Whispering” and adds Dizzy Gillespie-inspired Afro Cuban grooves to swigin affect, while the bebopper “Twisted” has Victoria sizzling through Third World percussion. A samba ish “It’s Too Late” and a clever R&B’d read of the 60s kitschy “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” are quite clever, and she’s upbeat and fun on the Swing Era clssic “Opus One.” Her voice and attitude are both flexible on this winning combo.

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