This Is A Bird

Long an established performer around Chicago, Alison Ruble's debut release brings together some of the scene's most forward thinking players for a set of re-envisioned jazz standards and modern pop tunes, arranged and co-produced by guitarist John McLean. Ruble casts her rich alto in a variety of open ended settings that deftly reference classic jazz, even as she stretches the boundaries of The Great American Songbook, including arrangements of If I Had You, Skylark, and It's Magic, to more modern fare such as James Taylor's Something in the Way She Moves. a classic jazz singer. A powerful presence. - John Callaway, WTTW-TV Chicago.