Album Notes

FIRST PLACE WINNER:Jazz Category
2007 MIDWEST SONG CONTEST
"Lonely Shadows" (Alison Margaret)

ISTHMUS: MAD TRACKS REVIEW
"Up Jump Spring" (Freddie Hubbard')

"...Ms. Margaret essays the entire tune with only Eric Hochberg's dancing acoustic bass for accompaniment. Her interaction with Hochberg is light and free and very much a mutual conversation. Margaret shows her mettle by following up with some impressionistic scatting that allows the tune to deliquesce very naturally.""
-Tom Laskin (Dec. 14, 2007 The Daily Page)

"Her heartbreakingly beautiful voice will both stun you and wash your cares away at the same time. She's also a wonderful band leader and her shows are utterly captivating."
- Prentice Berg, Restaurant Magnus
(Madison, WI)

“….such a seamless quality between registers, really tasteful use of vibrato, lots of timbres, great scatting. Ms. Margaret is a real artist and will be successful at whatever she does!
-Carol Loverde
Columbia College Chicago