The JazzXpress Caravan
Visit Marky Quayle on her website at www.markyquayle.com and be sure to treat yourself to the marvelous sounds of One December Day, and her newest impressive outing So Lucky . . . to Be Love by You.

POETRY AND PROSE
The time is long overdue to hear a fresh voice that actually tells a compelling story by way of interpreting a great lyric—so welcome to the rich and engaging world of Jazz singer Marky Quayle! This San Francisco native is a compelling singer with a refreshingly velvet vocal sound who has absorbed what all great Jazz vocalists know in their souls: the importance of ‘owning’ a song and delivering its poignant story. Her tasteful and agile interpretive skills and natural sense of what it means to get inside of a lyric captivate her audience at every live performance and these qualities are amply demonstrated on her latest CD release So Lucky . . . to Be Loved by You. “ . . . she has that rare quality of being able to sing to, as opposed to sing at, you. Quayle's warm, husky voice . . . holds notes and phrases . . . to exquisite effect. Quayle is obviously comfortable in her own skin and her ease is palpable. You feel relaxed listening to her, as if she were an old friend.” —George Harris, of Jazz Weekly, 93.5 FM KFOX, for All About Jazz Marky remembers, “The earliest live music that I recall hearing was the Mary Kay Trio singing in my father's living room when I was six years old. It was unforgettable the impression their beautiful voices made on me! I knew from then on that I wanted to be a singer.” Marky's father was a great music lover and counted among his close friends George Shearing and Les Brown, who were his regular houseguests, with Shearing often playing on the home piano. With her Dad playing vocal recordings around the house whenever he was home, Marky recounts that she learned three-quarters of her repertoire by the time she was nine. Although as a teenager she listened to the rock bands that were active in San Francisco during that era, when a neighbor gave her an LP titled The Divine One by Miss Sarah Vaughan, it turned her musical life around.