★★★★★
Jeremy Davenport has lived much of his career in quotation marks, a living homage to another day and style. Onstage, he's a throwback to the heyday of the great lounge vocalists—sharp-dressed, quick-witted and smooth. His patter is often self-deprecating or off the wall, as if he knows a joke that only the cool cats get, and the songs are a vehicle for his persona...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
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- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Davenport is a trumpeter and crooner. His voice is soft, understated, and conversational. He's a darn good trumpeter and the trumpet interludes keep things from getting sappy. He's backed by the solid, swinging musicianship of Glenn Patscha, piano, Peter Washington, bass, and Gregory Hutchinson, drums. On "Let's Leave," Davenport's vocals are barely distinguishable from those of guest, Diana Krall. The eleven tunes include the standards, "A Beautiful Friendship," "I Thought About You," "P.S...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Jeremy Davenport Brings It All Back Home A New Orleans tinged jazz trumpeter and vocalist inevitably draws to mind Louis Armstrong. Fair enough, but in terms of Jeremy Davenport's style and swagger, you should think more along the lines of Chet Baker, or better yet early Harry Connick, Jr. This comparison, reductive as it is, can hardly be avoided. Davenport played in Connick's big band on four tours...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-07
★★★★★
Jeremy Davenport has good credentials. Like Harry Connick, Jr., with whom he has been compared, he studied with Ellis Marsalis in New Orleans after receiving classical training in St. Louis, and also studied with Wynton Marsalis. Maybe in a Dream is made up of standards and his own compositions; there's also a short visit by Diana Krall as she joins Davenport on his "Let's Leave...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
It is easy to have low expectations for this CD because Jeremy Davenport was clearly being positioned to be "the next Chet Baker," though he did not succeed. The seven cover boy photos make it a little difficult to take him seriously and the originals that he contributed to the set (particularly "Was It Something I Did?," which has abysmal words) are not too memorable. But, on the other hand, he plays trumpet well, his vocals, which sound much closer to Harry Connick, Jr...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Showcasing his winning mix of urbane swing and down-home New Orleans panache, Live at the Bistro finds trumpeter/vocalist Jeremy Davenport performing in his hometown of St. Louis, MO...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28