Naama - "Who Am I"
Jazz vocalist Naama follows up her first single release from her upcoming album Wild Is Love, “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home” with the 1940 Jule Styne and Walter Bullock composition, “Who Am I.” The song was originally included as part of the score in the film Hit Parade of 1941 (Republic Pictures). This rarely-heard song reveals the steady and determined evolution of the singer from good to something great. Naama excels at carefully considered tempos and the phrasing within them. She is backed by the trio of guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist Dave Baron, and drummer Charles Goold, a format offering her a light accompaniment with Goold lightly playing the toms with sticks. Bernstein’s solo is probing but not invasively so. He is just looking for all the “pretty notes.” Naama’s voice is full and breathy, sensual, and dreamstruck. This is a voice to fall in love with.