What a treasure to find this warm, flexible voice deliver these songs with such sincerity. Ms. Gazarek has a great sense of phrasing and color and can choose any tool from her vocal tool box to add meaning to the lyrics. Each song is like a great short story. I look forward to hear her many albumns to come. Best wishes to her for an amazing career.

It took me a while to get into some of the songs on this album but now that I have I think they're great! Each of her CDs are good and she puts on a great live show. I definitely recommend this.

I'm sorry for being the only low reviewer thus far, but I didn't enjoy listening to this album. The cover songs are not creative in my opinion, it feels rather cliche. I'm not a big fan of the originals either. Sorry...Better luck next time.

....I shall be astonished. This is one of the very finest albums by a young jazz singer I have ever heard [actually, forget the qualifying adjective "young"; very finest...period]. Sara has the natural rhythms and style of one born to this music....and so few do. She has a voice of beauty and clarity that would turn many another fine singer green with envy.

The numbers here aren't as well known as some...Joni Mitchell's "Carey" and Billy Joel's "And So It Goes" are really wonderful....

Sara has the makings of a real legend...she's already one of the more accomplished singers you could ever want to hear. Let us all hope that the girl gets good management, and takes good care of her voice. We're eager for more....

Amazon.com has put Sara Gazarek's "Yours" in my face for about a year and counting. When a multinational corporation does that to me, I tend to say "no" on principle. Not a good reason for ignoring Sara Gazarek, though, so I plunked down some cash on this and gave it a listen.

Maybe I should quit being so obstinate. This is an excellent recording. There is a group of fine young singers (I'm thinking of Jacqui Naylor, Erin Bode, Judith Owen and, to a lesser extent, Jackie Allen) who are jazz singers crossing into pop, and have released some good-to-great recordings in the past few years. This is toward the top of that milieu, and Sara Gazarek definitely deserves mention in the same breath with those others.

The first thing that hits me about this c.d. is how clean it sounds. Certainly Joel Moss and Chris Hobson, the sound engineers, deserve kudos for that; but I'm also talking about Sara Gazarek's voice. Her diction, phrasing, intonation and consistency of volume throughout the ranges of her voice are first-rate. And soundwise, her voice reminds me a lot of Karrin Allyson (and that's a very good thing!).

My favorites on this c.d. are: her gorgeous duet with pianist Josh Nelson on Billy Joel's "And So It Goes"; the addition of some even more gorgeous string bass bowing by Erik Kortes with Nelson on Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"; and the closing track with strings, a heartfelt tribute to a mentor, Ludvig Girdland, entitled "Original 4."

As beautiful as those are, though, that is not to slight anything else on this c.d. (including and especially "Carey", a nod to the patron sainte of this group of singers, Joni Mitchell). The whole disc will get your alpha waves in order and put you into a state of bliss. It's worth a listen. No, it's worth a bunch of listens. RC