Maye Cavallaro

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Maye Cavallaro

The Sound Room, Oakland, CA, May 30, 2015

Reviewed by Steve Murray for Cabaret Scenes

Maye-Cavallaro-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212A singer’s singer, Maye Cavallaro is a Bay Area gem, renowned for her meticulous interpretations of jazz and pop. A teacher of jazz and stagecraft, it’s a joy to watch her ply her well-honed techniques, enjoying every second of her time on stage. Opening with Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour’s “I Don’t Know Enough About You” and “Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don’t Tease Me) by Duke Ellington and Lee Gaines, Cavallaro came out swinging for the fences. On the turn of a dime, she draws it all in with “Trav’lin’ Light” (Trummy Young and Jimmy Mundy with lyrics by Johnny Mercer), a lovely heartbreak ballad. “A Little Tear” (Eumir Deodato/Paulo Valle/Ray Gilbert) harkens back to the popular bossa nova rhythms of the ’50s and ’60s and allows the band to strut its stuff. My set one highlight was a smart pairing of Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang’s “Little Girl” and “I Wonder What Became of Me” (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)—the former an optimistic young girl with the world in front of her,  the latter a reminiscence of a life gone astray.

Surrounded by master musicians—John R.

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Burr (piano), Jeff Neighbor (bass), David Bendigkeit (horns), and Dave Rokeach (percussion)—Cavallaro’s rich contralto with a touch of vibrato teases the senses on ballads like “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” (Bob Hilliard/Dave Mann) and “Haunted Heart” (Howard Dietz/Arthur Schwartz). Cavallero strikes gold with her raucous definitive rendition of “No Moon At All” (Dave Mann/Redd Evans) and a sumptuous “Someone to Light Up My Life,” another bossa-flavored song by Antonio Carlos Jobim with English lyrics by Gene Lees.

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When you match a master jazz vocalist with equally matched musicians, the result is more than the sum of its parts, its magic.

Steve Murray

Always interested in the arts, Steve was encouraged to begin producing and, in 1998, staged four, one-man vehicles starring San Francisco's most gifted performers. In 1999, he began the Viva Variety series, a live stage show with a threefold mission to highlight, support, and encourage gay and gay-friendly art in all the performance forms, to entertain and document the shows, and to contribute to the community by donating proceeds to local non-profits. The shows utilized the old variety show style popularized by his childhood idol Ed Sullivan. He’s produced over 150 successful shows, including parodies of Bette Davis’s gothic melodramedy Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte and Joan Crawford’s very awful Trog. He joined Cabaret Scenes 2007 and enjoys the writing and relationships he’s built with very talented performers.