Christine Spero, jazz category winner of the USA Songwriting Competition, is first, last and always a songwriter. Since her start in the music business as a teenager with legendary producer Don Kirschner, she has honed the sound of piano, percussion and, periodically, saxophone into a rich Latin groove with pop rhythms. The Group, consisting of bassist Scott Petito, drummer Peter O'Brien and saxophonist/ percussionist Eliot Spero, displays all of the attributes of experienced accompaniment accomplished only by years of experience in the jazz trade.
"My Spanish Dream," Spero's latest recording, is a Latin/pop/world/fusion collection that is a comprehensive exploration of her style, highlighting her instrumental, vocal and lyrical talents to the nth degree. Flashes of Bebel Gilberto, Gloria Estefan and Eliane Elias appear in her vocals and she's a great scat singer, a dying art. But it is her piano / keyboard artistry that stands out. Christine can flat out play the ivories.
Ebony and ivory: SummerSounds jazz at it's finest.