Most of us know Lisa Lowell from her backing vocals with several artists, perhaps most famously as a member of Bruce Springsteen`s Sessions Band in 2006. Lowell`s also honed her prodigious chops for the preceding several days with Garland Jeffreys, Sheryl Crow, Buster Poindexter, Jon Bon Jovi, Cissy Houston, Chuck Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Ashford and Simpson, Bobby Blue Bland, Percy Sledge, Stephen Bishop, and B.B.
King, to mention but a few. Lisa - a self-described "journeywoman" vocalist, singer/songwriter and arranger - is the girl of a jazz vocalist and a jazz drummer. Her new record, Beautiful Behavior,smokes and seethes with lush romanticism, love and loss. Arranged by Lisa and produced by Lincoln Schleifer, it`s quite wonderful. Lowell`s clear, strong alto is a joy. When she opens up and sings full throated, well, step out of the way. Girlfriend can sing (and write great songs). She`s joined by a dramatic form of New York studio musicians like Hugh McCracken, Joel Diamond, Bill Holloman, Larry Campbell, Marc Shulman, and Adrian Harpham as good as some special guests (Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell). The Big Odd starts the record off with a catchy hook laden drive, backing chorus provided by her long time friends Patti and Soozie (gypsy violin provided by Soozie). A Love So True could have been recorded by Gamble and Huff in the 70′s, it`s shot done and through with Philly Soul right down to the final sha la las. For The Passion Of God feels epic, anthemic - it`s orchestral and richly nuanced and informed by a fantastic horn section, all played by one man - Bill Holloman. Moulin Rouge is a sassy strut, threaded through with Bruce Springsteen`s electric guitar, Larry Campbell`s mandolin, and harmonies (all sung by Lisa) that recall Labelle. The Moon Borrows Light From the Sun - about loving the wrong man - features Soozie Tyrell on violin and Marc Shulman providing spooky and shimmering guitar. In the concluding track, Until You Come Undone, Lisa gets a lesson at the Coney Island Aquarium about living and destruction and learning how to let go of a dying parent. As a music-obsessed teenager growing up at the Jersey Shore, Lowell frequented the many thriving clubs in Asbury Park in the mid-late 60′s like the Hullabaloo Club, the Upstage, the Student Prince. "Albee (Tellone), and Bruce (Springsteen), Sonny Kenn, Steve (Van Zandt) were on the setting at that sentence and played in these clubs_I wore my little granny dresses with the matching purse. And I met (Southside) Johnny, my girl was dating Johnny at the time, and we were both music fanatics." Southside turned Lisa on to early Van Morrison and Howlin` Wolf, as well as literature. She was also eagerly listening to her parents` jazz records as easily as the Kinks, the Beatles, the Stones, and Motown. "By the sentence I was 16 I had a real crush on Laura Nyro. I would make all the pilgrimages to Carnegie Hall to see her with Labelle at Christmas and I had a real identification with her because she`s complex and she was a real composer. And she had all those classical and jazz influences and she was being produced like an artist - not care a pop singer." "When I got a little older, Bruce used to work at the Beachcomber in North Long Branch, I`d sit on a surf and see him play. He was ever the star. We ever knew he was going places. There wasn`t any question. read full news from www.huffingtonpost.com
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