Mood Swing
The title of Debby's debut, Mood Swing, is clever for two reasons. It shifts moods from Brazilian sambas to jazz standards to Latin jazz while revealing her infinite capacity to swing, perhaps best exemplified here on the breezy New Song and on her own Pucker Up, co-written with bassist Eric Stiller. She demonstrates a genuine feel for Brazilian music on My Little Boat, Reza, sung in Portuguese, and a sensual, sambafied version of the Johnny Mathis ballad Chances Are. She turns in a smoldering performance on Mark Massey's hip Afro-Cuban arrangement of the Horace Silver classic Senor Blues (catch the quote from Wayne Shorter's Footprints).