{"id":5021,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/jenna-mammina-meant-to-be\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"jenna-mammina-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=5021","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Mammina – Meant To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenna Mammina
<\/font>Meant To Be<\/font><\/b>
(Mamma Grace – 2002)
by S.H. Watkins, Sr.<\/font><\/p>\n

It was at the 2001 IAJE that I initially heard Jenna Mammina’s voice, at a private performance she hosted at the hotel. This year she did it again, performing songs from her new release Meant To Be<\/i> and it was one of the highlights of the entire trip, particularly when she slipped into her version of the Steely Dan classic Dirty Work<\/i>. Jenna’s unique sound falls somewhere between Phobe Snow, Carly Simon and a Nightingale’s <\/i>song. Her control is excellent and her style is very entrancing. The CD starts off with Lotus Blossom<\/i> delivered in a hot flamenco-like style by guitarist Andre Bush<\/b>, Jenna coming in like a cool breeze to carry the melody. Her voice has a sassy way of curling<\/i> when she pushes it, then sliding back into a sweet whisper, very noticeable on her rendition of Fats Waller’s Honeysuckle Rose<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The More I See You<\/i> is another of the tunes she sang at the hotel, and the CD version is almost<\/i> as good as live (nothing is as good as live<\/i>, but a lot fuller since at the hotel it was only Jenna and Andre Bush. Her treatment of Ellington’s In A Mellow Tone<\/i> is jouncy and ‘Hep’, as Duke would have said. Distant Water<\/i> is a softly spun ballad, storytelling reminiscent of Phoebe Snow in the 70’s and 80’s. Jenna Mammina performed at a couple of the now-defunct Mt. Hood Jazz festival and absolutely wowed ’em<\/i>. Be sure to grab a copy of this one for your collection, and stop by Jenna’s web site<\/a> to see if she’s playing anywhere within a few hundred miles or so of your town. If so, try to go, it’s a show you don’t want to miss. <\/font><\/p>\n

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