(Vocal Jazz, Vintage Pop) [CD] Kat Edmonson - The Big Picture - 2014, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Kat Edmonson / The Big Picture
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Austin-based singer/songwriter Kat Edmonson has built a cult following around her cherubic, jazz-inflected songs. And while she has always utilized the colorful harmonies and clever lyrical melodies of jazz and American popular song, at her core she's a jazz-influenced pop artist, and this album finds her embracing those sensibilities more than ever. If Edmonson's 2012 sophomore album, Way Down Low, found her moving even further afield from the cabaret jazz of 2009's Take to the Sky, then 2014's The Big Picture reveals another evolution toward an all-original approach to making music. Working with producer Mitchell Froom, Edmonson wrote and/or co-wrote all of the songs on The Big Picture. Froom, no stranger to the art of presenting quirky singer/songwriters, having worked with such similarly inclined artists as Ron Sexsmith, Crowded House, Suzanne Vega, and others, is the perfect collaborator for Edmonson. Here, he frames her lilting, Billie Holiday-meets-Blossom Dearie vocals with the kind of '50s and '60s traditional pop sound that Edmonson lightly flirted with on Way Down Low. However, on The Big Picture the singer truly makes this style her own. There is a charming, vintage vibe to many of the album's tracks, with Froom and Edmonson striking a nice balance between cuts that have a retro, orchestral AM pop sound, such as the swinging ballad "Oh My Love," and a more contemporary folk sound, as on the poignant "All the Way." Elsewhere, Edmonson delves into Ennio Morricone spaghetti Western drama ("You Can't Break My Heart"), breezy '60s lounge music ("Avion"), and Brill Building echo-chamber romanticism ("For Two"). Ultimately, by bringing all of her influences together with Froom's help, Edmonson's own unmistakable sound comes into fine focus on The Big Picture. (Matt Collar, Allmusic.com)

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Even though she's labeled her music definitively, Kat Edmonson has gone far beyond her self-proclaimed “vintage pop” genre. The Big Picture has more modern compositions than her previous albums, but Edmonson's voice ties all of the different sounds together.
Kat Edmonson was initially noticed singing jazz standards alongside her own original recordings and brings that genre to the forefront immediately. Jazz songs “Rainy Day Woman” and “You Said Enough” are early highlights, mostly because they give Edmonson some space to breathe. She's at her best in these songs because she has plenty of time to improvise and lengthen some words, letting them linger in the air. Even with a loose structure, both songs have excellent hooks and are concise.
“Oh My Love” is a stunning acoustic guitar driven ballad that could be one of her best songs. On the opposite end is “Avion,” a pop rock song that never finds its footing. In “Avion,” Edmonson is competing with the band for attention, which should never be the case. She seems rushed to get her lyrics out; the best songs on this album contain her vocals are the main focus.
“You Can't Break My Heart” is similarly overproduced, in which the string section competes with Edmonson too much. Finally, “Till We Start To Kiss” is awkwardly slotted into the album and sounds so much like a commercial for a Hawaiian vacation package that it borders on parody.
Even when her vocals don't mesh with the production, the lyrics of The Big Picture are consistently personal on every track. Edmonson has writing credits for 11 songs of the 12 song album and it shows. It's an album about love, but not just the starry-eyed romantic parts. “Crying” covers a relationship falling apart due to mistrust and “Dark Cloud” is about an argument that might have permanently turned two partners against each other.
In the end, “Who's Counting” wraps up the narrative by saying no relationships are perfect, but small things can't break them up. “We try to be right, we try to be good, and we try to be strong / it's never enough, it's always too much and there's still something wrong / and yet in the meantime, we just keep moving along.”
The Big Picture is Edmonson's attempt to step outside of her usual roles and try something completely different. Her decision to write most of the songs on the album is a welcome change, but the production on a few of the songs doesn't fit. The instruments in “Avion” and “Till We Start To Kiss” don't suit Edmonson's voice and “You Can't Break My Heart” and “For Two” get tedious with little happening for long periods. However, Edmonson is still an excellent singer and her incomparable vocals make the album worth listening to through the low points. (Travis Boswell)

Kat Edmonson - vocals, chimes, arrangements
Mitchell Froom - celeste, glockenspiel, harmonium, keyboards, organ, piano, electric piano, arrangements
Dan Higgins - chimes, clarinet, bass clarinet, sax (alto, baritone, tenor)
Lori Stuntz - trombone, bass trombone
Jeff Young - piano
George Doering - guitar
Val McCallum - banjo, guitar
Brad Dutz - vibraphone
Bob Gloub - bass
Davey Faragher - bass
David Piltch - double bass
Ian Walker - double bass
Pete Thomas - drums, percussion
Michael Urbano - drums, percussion
Brian Wolfe - drums, percussion
Aaron Thurston - drums
Matt Chamberlain - drums
Chris Lovejoy - marimba, percussion
Greg Leisz - pedal steel
Andrew Bulbrook - violin
Benjamin Jacobson - violin
Eric Byers - cello
Jonathan Moerschel - viola