Tina Harrod Jazz Band review:

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Tina Harrod Jazz Band review: Magnifying the lyrics turns heat into fire

SEPTEMBER 26 2016 - 10:09AM
John Shand

Now Harrod didn't occupy the stage, she prowled it, staring her audience in the eyes. Where that edginess had made her seem somewhat ill-at-ease before, now it was fully harnessed, and line after line, song after song, crackled with electricity.


You could gripe and say that her voice could be harsh, or that she did not use the lower half of her range nearly enough, but if she dutifully addressed those issues would she still achieve the same urgency? Besides, even in the first half that urgency was tempered by a quality that too few singers have the courage or capacity to bring to the table: vulnerability. Sometimes it was as though she were holding a magnifying glass above her lyrics and turning heat into fire, whether on the sadness and drama of Blue On the Inside, the searing intensity of Holding On, or the gripping theatricality of Dear Henry.

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