Album Notes

"The CD is simply exquisite! Everything about it: vocals, arrangements, and variety. I really can't say enough. I wonder if Oscar [Brown Jr.] ever got a chance to hear your Dat Dere. I'm sure he would have been delighted.Your album is a breath of fresh air from San Francisco!" - Norman Curtis, New York based BMI songwriter and composer, Oscar Brown Jr.’s music collaborator from 1955-60; pianist who has performed in Europe and extensively in the U.S.
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SELECTED AS ONE OF THE TOP CABARET CDs of 2003 - "Linda Kosut's LIFE IS BUT A DREAM - the lady is incredible, the CD a gem!" --- Stu Hamstra, www.CabaretHotlineOnline.com
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BEST OF THEATRE 2006 - Tom E. Kelley & Albert Goodwyn, San Francisco Bay Times
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" ... listening to the clear, open, melodic voice of LINDA KOSUT ... it's musical, it's lyrical ... on her ballads I wanted to dance a slow dance with a lithe and beautiful woman. The ballads work, the jazz works, and so do the side trips into country and comedic. Her band, led by Max Perkoff, is a perfectly-timed ensemble that gently lifts each song. Entertaining from start to finish." News & Reviews from New York, Performing Arts INSIDER, and lively-arts.com, Richmond Shepard

"Her radiant smile lights up the intimate space, immediately capturing the attention and hearts of her audience... she's the real thing...the multi-talented Kosut...has a fantastic sense of dynamics within her songs. She knows just when to play it small and quiet, and when to let 'er rip...a perfect accompaniment to dinner with friends." - San Francisco Bay Times, Tom W. Kelly

"Kosut can share more of her life in one song than three full hours of episodic television ... Singers such as Kosut are on their own, standing in the spotlight giving the audience that rare immediate intimacy that any good director or producer would envy to have for a show." - Jonathan Farrell, independent reporter, San Francisco

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Linda Kosut, a San Francisco-based vocalist, is known for her unique stylings of jazz standards and pop tunes. She is a moving and entertaining performer who brings authentic passion and interpretative skill to lyrics and the "story" song. She has performed in many of San Francisco's nightclubs including the renowned Empire Plush Room, Jazz at Pearl's, Anna's Jazz Island, etc. Her tours have included stops at the Gardenia and Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Chicago's Davenport's and New York's Triad, Encore and Reprise Room at Dillon's.

Linda is a founder of the San Francisco vocal trio The Kitchenettes and she teaches performance technique.

Linda is a 1990 Fellow of the Cabaret Symposium of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and a former student of New York's Actors' Institute.