Judy Niemack

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"It seems only appropriate that Judy Niemack spends a significant amount of her time teaching, for there isn't anyone-whether jazz neophyte or veteran-who can't learn from her....Niemack represents jazz singing at it's finest and most accomplished. Throughout her two-decade career, she has consistently bordered on flawless, yet she's never become mannered or predictable.
Her latest, a 12 track homage to the various moods and sentiments associated with the color blue, is at once a sublime testament to her long-established musical prowess and an utterly refreshing exercise in interpretive brilliance.
Niemack navigates everything from a hard-swinging "Moanin'" to a bossa-infused "Blue In Green", a perky "Bluesette" and a simmering "Afro Blue" with uniform finesse. Her reading of Joni Mitchells' "Blue" is a supreme study in soul-searching ache. She can write, as brilliantly illustrated by lyrics she here fits to Bill Evan's "interplay" and Monk's "Misterioso" (aptly re-titled "A Crazy Song to Sing"). She understands, as too few vocalists do, the subtlety of scat, knowing that its effect is most powerfulwhen used not just intelligently but sparingly."
Christopher Louden , Jazz Times Aug. 2007
(German translation)
"Ihre neue CD stellt auf 12 Titeln eine Homage an die verschiedensten Stimmungen und Gefühle dar, die man mit der Farbe Blau verbindet. Niemack handhabt alles mit Finesse- ein hart swingendes "Moanin'', ein bossafärbtes "Blue In Green", ein spritziges "Bluesette" und ein sanft brodelndes "Afro Blue". Ihre version von Joni Mitchell's "Blue" berührt die tiefsten Punkte der menschlichen Seele. Eigene Lyrics zu Bill Evans' "Interplay" und Monk's "Misterioso" belegen ihre Songwritertalente, ihr meisterhafter Scat-gesang wird ebenso intelligent wie sparsam eingezetzt. Kein Wunder dass Judy Niemack als Jazzpädagogin weltweit gefragt ist..."
Christopher Louden, Jazz Times
"She sings like an angel, or at least like an angel who's heard Basie and Miles. She's one of the few singers who actually should sing scat solos, since she thinks so much like a horn player."
Neil Tesser, Downbeat
"...one of the most versatile and provocative singers.....with a keen jazz sensitivity."
John. S. Wilson, New York Times
"She puts over a tune with passion and singular phrasing. She slaloms with streamlined precision through tricky be-bop lines and changes. She twists, turns, scats, leaps and bounds with Olympian grace....displaying admirable control, balance and understatement.....Classy."
G. Kalbacher, Hot House
"To my mind, Judy Niemack is one of the best, and purest jazz singers ever. Besides a voice with the clarity of a mountain stream, accuracy of pitch and time that is a wonder to hear, perfect diction and sensitivity to lyrics, she has a disciplined improvisational gift that makes her scat-sung lines music ....."
S. Chamberlain, L.A. Jazz Scene
"You need have no reservations about Judy Niemack, a young veteran of the New York club scene who epitomizes the term "jazz singer". Niemack's irrepresible swing, savvy scatting and dead-on intonation allow her to improvise solos that seem more horn than voice....her way with a lyric will warm the hearts of both romantics and musical adventurers as she tames tough jazz lines written for saxes, not singers."
Neil Tesser, Playboy Jazz
"Judy has an inner sweetness to her voice....and a jazz edge. The combination is effective. She's musically sophisticated. She befriends the pulse and interacts with jazz musicians well. She draws from feelings and experiences, using melodies by jazz composers as her basis for creativity.........."
Burt Korall...International Musician
"Niemack scats better then nearly everyone; she's really one with the band.."
Down Beat
"Judy Niemack digs deeply into the innards of the compositional body eclectic and makes no detectable missteps; She crosses her Rubicon with the grace and confidence of those who know just where the shallows are and, therefore, appear to walk on water....."
Alan Bargebuhr, Cadence