Dolores Scozzesi: Intuition

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Dolores Scozzesi

Intuition

The E-Spot Lounge, Studio City, CA, September 5, 2015

Reviewed by Mary Bogue for Cabaret Scenes

Dolores-Scozzesi-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212An exquisite artist, Dolores Scozzessi is instantly recognizable by her distinctive, warm voice, cool, incomparable jazz stylings and seldom-heard freedom in lyrical interpretation and sound, becoming one more well-honed instrument in her exquisite band.

Scozzesi opened with “It’s All Right with Me” with guitarist, Dori Amarillo, whose instrumental signaled perfection as Scozzesi’s voice warmed up, placing her in fine voice for “Fine and Mellow” as she sang with eyes closed, digging deeply, enamoring her audience and delivering a dramatic finish.

She mined the lyrics, finding the gold in “Love, Look Away,” her favorite number from Flower Drum Song, and convinced us that “…After you go, I cry too much” in this stellar arrangement by Quinn Johnson, who demonstrated his expertise on the keys with an exceptional assist from percussionist Kevin Winard.
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In a filled-to-capacity house, there was absolute silence as she sang “Listen Love” and “Body and Soul.” For those sitting close to the stage, this was a very intimate, gorgeous expression brought home by bassist Lyman Medeiros, but those in the back of the house had a hard time hearing the unmiked instruments, a recent compromise between the E-Spot Lounge and local residents.

Everything about Scozzesi is authentic — from her urban, elegant black bodysuit with sparkling dupatta stole to her scorching, torchy French and English version of “Autumn Leaves” voiced in a full-range dance with guitar. Her “One More Cup of Coffee” was a driving, up-tempo force and compelling to experience.

Los Angeles vocalists Mark Winkler and Mon David joined her for two songs, before she finished with a stunning “Move On,” “dedicated to my darling daughter, Sophia…who taught me how to see.
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Her CD, A Special Taste, is indeed that.

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Mary Bogue

Born to upstate New York parents Nelson Binner and Gladys Witt, Mary Bogue was the fourth of five children. Her love of acting was apparent early in her life, when she acted out imagined scenes in the second story hallway of their home on Division Street. Moving to California in 1959 only fueled the fire and soon she tried out and got the part in Beauty and the Beast, a children's production at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The bug followed her into junior and high school productions, but when she struck out on her own in the early 70s, she found it wasn't as easy as sitting at the world famous Schwab's on Sunset. Her first audition stopped her dead in her tracks for years when the "casting director" expected nudity. It was only in 1990 that she returned to her first love, albeit slowly as she was a caregiver to 16 foster daughters. Only when she was cast in Antonio Bandera's directorial debut, Crazy in Alabama (1999)(which she was cut from) did she pursue this dream.