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"HER NEW CD IS EXCELLENT....A RICHLY INTELLIGENT WORK... I LOVE THE QUALITY IN HER VOICE....A LOVELY NEW CD." Jonathan Schwartz WNYC Radio




"I WAS STUNNED BY HER POWERS OF INTERPRETATION.....JUST BEAUTIFUL." David Rothenberg WBAI Radio




"ONCE OF THE BEST 10 VOCAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR. HER SOUND CAN BE HYPNOTIC...O'HARA...CAPTIVATES AND HER VOICE CAPTIVATES AND HER VOICE AND TALES LINGER LONG AFTER THE NOTES FADE AWAY." Rob Lester Sound Advice.




Jill O'Hara Alone Together is an eclectic collection of standards and more contemporary material from Randy Newman and Amanda McBroom.
O'Hara has also received support from some of the best jazz musicians around that reads like a Who's Who of the music industry including Grammy Nominee Byron Olson (Sketches of Coltrane & Miles) who served as arranger and conductor on many of the fourteen tracks.
"Whether it's her haunting delivery on the Dietz-Schwartz standard Alone Together, her tender reading of Randy Newman's Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father or Amanda McBroom's Dreaming to the jumping rhythm of the opening track A Lover's Prayer, the long awaited recording is a triumph for Jill O'Hara. It makes one only hope that they don't have to wait another fifteen years for her next recording."
Jill's solo recording debut, 1993's Jill O'Hara became a classic and favorite of disc jockeys and critics, earning her a spot as "One of the Ten Best Recordings of the Year" by Backstage Magazine. With all of the initial copies sold out, the recording became an in demand, cult favorite that is garnering very high prices on auction sites. Fans will now be delighted to know that O'Hara has re-released the CD in conjunction with Jill O'Hara Alone Together.