Joyce Breach: The IridiumNYC

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Joyce Breach

The Iridium NYC, NYC, March 31, 2015

Reviewed by Rob Lester for Cabaret Scenes

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Photo: Heather Sullivan

March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb, with Joyce Breach’s lovely singing in the last hours of the month at Iridium. I understand she did two different sets; if I’d known, I would have come for more than just the late set. But any Breach set is a sure bet.

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She’s one of our most reliably sublime singers, proven for years to be champion and vessel for fine songs. I have this theory that she could make a mediocre ditty sound exquisite with her elegant and caring phrasing and burnished tone and pleasing, gentle vibrato. I doubt I’ll ever get this proven, as she picks the crème de la crème.

Masterful pianist Mike Renzi and bassist Jay Leonhart made the night a 100% top-drawer draw.  As Jane Scheckter is doing, she began with the rare-ish, intriguing “Sand in My Shoes,” casting spells through “How About You?
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” and “Why Did I Choose You?” and other choice Joyce treats.

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Witnessing these three interact, especially with Renzi alternately super-simple-but-effective or richly detailed, in solos or accompaniment, felt like an honor. Velvet voice and accompaniment truly floated on air, spun like perfect silk. Is “Heavenly” too hyperbolic?

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Rob Lester

2015 is native New Yorker Rob Lester's eighth year as contributing writer, beginning by reviewing a salute to Frank Sinatra, whose recordings have played on his personal soundtrack since the womb. (His Cabaret Scenes Foundation member mom started him with her favorite; like his dad, he became an uber-avid record collector/ fan of the Great American Songbook's great singers and writers.) Soon, he was attending shows, seeking out up-and-comers and already-came-ups, still reading and listening voraciously. He also writes for www.NiteLifeExchange.com and www.TalkinBroadway.com, has been cabaret-centric as awards judge, panel member/co-host, and produces benefit/tribute shows, including one for us.