Just You, Just Me
An eleven-tune set of bass + vox duos, featuring bassist Kevin Hill.
John McDonough of DownBeat and NPR says: “This is Karen’s most courageous work… her spunk has the benefits of voice, technique, and taste, the kind of refining influences that turn common spunk into high art.”
Michael Steinman of Cadence, Hot House, and the New York Jazz Record says: I know a CD has captured me when, having heard it once through, I want to hear it again right away. I’m listening for the third time to JUST YOU, JUST ME, and I plan to play it for friends and make converts. This unobtrusive little CD — about the length of an ancient twelve-song vinyl record of my adolescence — is a very important piece of art, because it bravely defies convention to present naked song, unadorned (yet expert) improvisation, joyous eccentric collaboration. In an age where froth tries to pass itself off as substance, Karen Marguth and Kevin Hill offer us beauty. And that is worth celebration.
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A Way With Words
A tribute to the music of Carroll Coates, this album received four stars in DownBeat magazine, and gets regular airplay on Sirius XM’s Real Jazz Channel.
Frank-John Hadley of DownBeat Magazine says: Karen's steady, pure voice achieves a poetic gracefulness in interpretations of 17 sage, romantic songs from the esteemed songwriter Carroll Coates. The hallmark of a superior singer is to make everything — including accuracy of pitch, phraseology, rapport with the rhythm section, sparks of spontaneity, the probing of one’s heart — seem easy and effortless. Karen delivers — and then some.”
~Frank-John Hadley, DownBeat Magazine
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The Best Things
The Independent News writes:
This musically versatile songbird has a bell of a voice; clear, lyrical. Her latest CD is a first-rate work, featuring renderings of jazz, folk, and gospel songs.