Denise King sings it her way in the Hot Jazz series
Denise King. (photo credit:PR)
Denise King certainly sounds like she also fits the latter nickname as audiences in Ganei Tikva, Jerusalem, Herzliya, Modi’in, Tel Aviv and Haifa will discover when the sexagenarian American singer struts her stuff as the next guest artist in this year’s Hot Jazz series. All told, King will give eight performances here between December 19 and 26.
As critics have pointed out, predominantly with great enthusiasm, over the years Vaughan had an almost inborn tendency to mold numbers to her own spirit.
She would take standards and take a flight of fancy betwixt the notes and tempos in the sheet music. Even when she was just an aspiring teenager, when she might have been expected to be in awe of the more senior members of the ensemble she was fronting and, to toe the line, she would invariably do the number in question as per the chart until close to the end, and then she’d slip in some sonic or rhythmic departure.
“She almost never sang anything straight,” notes King. “Every one once in a while she would, but she was always adding her own special twist to everything.”
That suits King to a tee.
“I tend to take liberties,” she admits. “There are, of course, times when I sing a song straight down, but I often try to make the song my own. I always try to add a different flavor to it.”
Early on in her career, Vaughan was frequently berated for her individualistic take which, if you consider the definitively improvisational nature of jazz, is really anathema to the very core of the discipline. King says highlights events movies television radio dining that she, too, has taken her fair share of flak for charting her own course through a work.
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