Erin McDougald

Outside the Soirée Erin McDougald

Erin McDougald: Outside the Soiree

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Erin McDougald is a big-voiced Chicago-based singer who calls herself the “Flapper Girl” after the “flappers” of the 1920s,’ looking back on them as emancipated, fearless women. That identity carries into her singing which comes across with a confidence and flair you rarely hear among younger jazz vocalists today. With her voice carrying a low, sultriness mixed with jazzy flexibility, she does not overtly sound like any of the great singers of the past but she has a versatility and freedom that, at various times, can recall Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald or Chris Connor.

Most of the songs on her CD are familiar standards but the arrangements, most of which McDougald worked on, rework them and give them new life.

Read the full review at All About Jazz

Outside the Soirée Erin McDougald

DownBeat: Outside the Soirée – Erin McDougald (Review)

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For her new album, Outside The Soirée, Chicago-based vocalist Erin McDougald decided to pursue her ambitions and go big. The result is a thrilling, 80-minute program featuring contributions from two of the greatest living instrumentalists in jazz: Tom Harrell (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Dave Liebman (soprano and tenor saxophones).

Read the full review at Downbeat

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