Album DescriptionNatalia Nazarova's exciting American Singing debut is set gem-like in the compositions and arrangements of Chicago virtuoso trumpeter Orbert Davis and his producer Mark Ingram. After the briefest of musical introductions, they fashioned a series of hip settings to highlight the pure toned playfulness of Nazarova's classically trained singing. "The fact that she's such a great actress," says the accomplished trumpeter Davis, whose close musical allies in Chicago give this recording its luster and musical brilliance, "I mean, she just went right into character and made it really easy. Her personality was so much fun we spent a lot of time laughing. It never got tense." This debut world CD combines performances in Pop, Smooth Jazz, Jazz, and Russian in a unique gem-like setting. It is a wonderful, intimate release leading toward world harmony of artistic expression in the next millennium.