For those unaware, Denise Donatelli returns to Savant Records with Take My Breath Away, a celebratory set that brings together contemporary songwriting, Brazilian music, her acclaimed jazz style and intimate balladry.

She teams up once again with longtime collaborator, pianist and arranger Geoffrey Keezer, whose imaginative settings give these songs the perfect frame and make this a rich, rewarding listen.

Donatelli has toured and performed with Bill Cunliffe, Bill Mays, Roger Kellaway, Tamir Hendelman, Larry Koonse, Julian Lage, Peter Sprague, Bob Sheppard, Joe LaBarbera, Marvin Smith, Christian Jacob’s Big Band Theory, Alf Clausen and his Jazz Orchestra, and the Stan Kenton Alumni Band.

1. Go
2. You and I Again
3. (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know
4. Summer’s Gone Again
5. As If You Read My Mind
6. This Happy Madness
7. Brazilian Love Affair
8. Time Alone
9. Take My Breath Away
10. How Deep Is the Ocean

The GRAMMY nominated vocalist and Highnote/Savant recording artist - and having been diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer is now officially a cancer survivor - opens her new recording on the charming Go and then brings us the endearing You and I Again, the smoothly ambient (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know and then comes both the alluring Summer’s Gone Again and the gently rambunctious As If You Read My Mind.

Along next is the delightfully engaging This Happy Madness and that is in turn backed seamlessly by a dutiful hipsway that resides within Brazilian Love Affair, the veritable gossamer of Time Alone, the set rounding out on the affecting beauty of Take My Breath Away, coming to a close on the decadent How Deep Is the Ocean.

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