Here’s a lady who’s singing just grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. With a voice that can take you to five octaves and countless moods, Serafin LaRiviere releases a kaleidoscopic album that captures the essence of jazz. You get some Krupa-styled drumming and whirring saxes as she gives hot-cha take of “Blue Skies” and then can go deep and intimate with just her and piano on a candle lit “Take On Me”. She taps into her inner Screaming Jay Hawkins with a dash of crazy Arthur Brown on an echoey “I Put A Spell On You” and a stark and dark “ Cry Me A River”. She barks like a carney on the fun and frenetic “You Came A Long Way From St. Louis” and is earthy on the Afro Cuban take of “One Note Samba”. Is she gonna hit LA? She has to be seen to be believed!