Valerie Joyce on the cover of Earshot Jazz Magazine

Valerie Joyce is featured on the cover of the September 2006 issue of Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Magazine.

Valerie Joyce possesses so wonderfully idiosyncratic a voice that one cannot help but stop and marvel. What is impressive is not just the striking acoustic quality of it, but the character she builds into it, to create expression that can be both disarmingly vulnerable and arrestingly deeply hued …

Joyce delivers all the numbers with emotional nuance … with maturity… She manages to convey both a sense of discovering lyrics and the resonance of songs, as if for the first time, and a knowing, deeply felt and considered expression of word and music.

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