Deborah Latz

"Deborah has one of the BEST new voices I've heard in a LONG time. Her phrasing and unique style is simply...elegant and versatile and spunky!" - Jan Jenson, Jazz Now
Deborah Latz gives her audience straight-ahead jazz vocals with a dash of Monk, a cool sip of bossa, and a spoonful of blues.
“…Miss Latz is a passionate songstress and one feels that over and over throughout this album[Toward Love], which has a delicate and intelligent style.. Enough said, we have found a jazz vocalist of the highest quality that would do you well to find out more about!” - Eric Boisson www.ericnroll.com France
Deborah Latz’s debut album, Toward Love, has garnered critical acclaim both in the United States and in Europe.
Live in Paris! Deborah made her Paris debut at Sept Lezards on November 29, 2005 with legendary pianist, Alain Jean-Marie, bassist, Gilles Naturel and drummer, Elisabeth Keledjian.
Toward Love was featured the week of January 16, 2006 on CBC Radio Two in Canada on their After Hours program from 10pm to 12am.
Deborah has played in the U.S. and abroad at the following venues:
U.S. Sweet Rhythm, New York Cornelia Street Café, New York Enzo’s, New York The Cutting Room, New York 55 Bar, New York Frederick’s, New York The Triad, New York Tower Records Lincoln Center, New York Night and Day, New York Detour, New York The Cupping Room, New York Café 111, New York New York University’s Torch Club, New York Louis 649, New York Trumpets, New Jersey New Jersey Music & Arts - Fall Fest, New Jersey
International Sept Lezards, Paris, France Quai des Brumes, Montreal, Canada House of Jazz, Montreal, Canada I.C.A.O. Convention, Montreal, Canada El Foro, Barcelona, Spain Allotria, Munich, Germany
Toward Love has received radio play on the East Coast, Canada, and on-line in the U.S. and Europe.
"...a sensibility that incites a lyric with her innate dramatic instincts... Strikes just the right note of coy mischievousness... " - Alan Bargebuhr, Cadence
Deborah recorded the original song, I’m Neurotic Over You for the off-Broadway comedy, High Infidelity at The Promenade Theater in New York City.
"Toward Love is a fabulous album. I love it!" - Dominick Dunne
Deborah won the Best Actress Award at The Jerzy Grotowski Theatre Festival in Wroclav, Poland, for her performance in the one-woman drama, Juliet. She also performed Juliet in The NY International Fringe Festival at The Red Room Theatre.
Deborah wrote, produced and performed the one-woman musical, Travels With Ma Own Self, which received rave reviews in New York and Europe.
Deborah Latz received diplomas from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.
“Her voice rings with a fetching richness…. A marvelous vocal effort, beginning to end. I’m bewitched.” – Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com