Catherine Russell on NPR's "Fresh Air" May 12th!

*Date and air time for this broadcast has been postponed. Rescheduled time TBA!
NPR's Terry Gross will interview Catherine Russell and play tracks from Sentimental Streak on "Fresh Air", this Monday the 12th. Find your local station here and tune in!

"Sentimental Streak" in Downbeat: "soulful music"

Sentimental Streak review in Downbeat Magazine:

"Catherine Russell knows it's good to belt it easy and get out of town. Her peripatetic repertoire excels at lightly saucy covers of early divas... mixed backing and varied lineups support Russell's hard hitting (if …

Featured in Jazz Times! "This is shaping up to be the year of the cat."

Eye of the Cat
Born into a heavy musical legacy, singer Catherine Russell forges her own path

Forget what the Chinese zodiac tells you; this is shaping up to be the year of the cat. After years on Fame's periphery, singer Catherine "Cat" Russell is, with the …

"Sentimental Streak" in Philadelphia Inquirer: "Russell is a fun presence"

Catherine Russell
Sentimental Streak

Catherine Russell is a native New Yorker whose father, pianist Luis Russell, was Louis Armstrong's musical director. Her mother, Carline, is a bassist and a Juilliard graduate.

Russell, who has worked on Broadway and as a …

Sunday Times 4 Star Review of "Sentimental Streak"

Catherine Russell in the U.K's Sunday Times:

"With the stylish Madeleine Peyroux channelling Billie Holiday for the benefit of 21st-century audiences, it would be cheering to see Catherine Russell make the same journey into the mainstream. The daughter of Louis …

Soundstage Review "fabulously funny, jazzy disc"

Read Shannon Holliday's 4 Star review of Sentimental Streak, in Soundstage:

"Vocalist Catherine Russell has what it takes -- and then some -- to draw the right kind of attention: worthy pipes, plenty of sass and class, and tasteful song selection alongside the …

SvD Review "timeless and irresistable album"

Dan Backman of SvD Sweden writes of Catherine Russell's Sentimental Streak:

"If you do it right, swing and blues from the first half of the last century CAN sound like it was written today. Or tomorrow. The awesome singer Catherine Russell, (she has performed with …

Women in Jazz Festival with mom Carlina Ray

Catherine Russell will perform with her mother, and festival honoree, Carline Ray, at New York's Women in Jazz Festival on April 5th.

WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL 2008
Friday, April 4 - Sunday, April 6, 2008
at Saint Peter's Church
619 Lexington Avenue at 54th …