1.For Sentimental Reasons
2.Cuando Bailamos
3.L-O-V-E
4.On The Sunny Side Of The Street
5.I Feel The Earth Move
6.My Funny Valentine
7.I've Got To See You Again
8.Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
9.Moon River
10.Bare Feet
11.Happy Together
12.Dream A Little Dream Of Me
13.Simply Love

Halie Loren – vocals
Matt Treder - piano, Rhodes piano, string arrangements
Mark Schneider – bass
Brian West - drums, percussion
Willian Seiji Mars - guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 10)
Daniel Gallo - guitar (13)
Sergei Teleshev - button accordion
Craig Chee – ukulele
Dale Bradley - cello (2, 7, 8)
Dave Burham - violin (2, 7, 8)
Lisa McWhorter - violin (2, 8)
Clark Spencer - viola (2, 8)

Vocalist Halie Loren has never avoided love songs. Her spectacularly engaging Heart First (Justin Time, 2012) is actually full of them, but this program one-ups that album in the love department. Loren mixes and matches popular songs from a variety of sources and eras, throws in a few originals for good measure, and lets her warm and seductive voice work its magic on all of them during the easy-to-enjoy Simply Love

Loren has always been repertoire savvy, picking music that's familiar enough but fairly malleable. Her song selections are fairly conservative, populist even, but she often takes risks in the way she approaches them. "L-O-V-E," for example, is drained of its testosterone and given a buoyant facelift, "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" gets an upbeat, Jason Mraz-like reading with an emphasis on the upbeats, and "Happy Together" is refashioned with a slick-and-hip veneer. Elsewhere, she puts her multilingual talent(s) to good use, delivers winning originals, from the bossa-based "Cuando Bailamos" to the Jack Johnson-esque "Bare Feet," and gets right to the heart of the matter on numbers like "For Sentimental Reasons."

Pop-inflected jazz like this often gets ignored by American audiences and critics who view it as a resident in an artistic no man's land; it's too jazzy to appeal to the core pop constituency and of minor interest to a jazz community which seems to only respect the originators and those breaking new ground today. That's really a shame because Loren has something to say and her voice is as attractive and intoxicating as anything. She's something of a star in Japan, where her albums fly off the shelves, but American audiences have been slow to catch on; maybe this one will do the trick. ---Dan Bilawsky, allaboutjazz.com

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1. Yellow Bird 3:37
2. I Wish You Love 4:03
3. Blue 4:43
4. Stormy Weather 5:10
5. Butterfly 4:36
6. After The Fall 4:10
7. Our Love Is Here To Stay 3:33
8. I’ve Got You Under My Skin 4:10
9. Danger In Loving You 3:27
10. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 4:23
11. Carry Us Through 5:13
12. Peace 3:35

Halie Loren – vocals, percussion
Matt Treder – piano, organ
William Seiji Marsh - guitar
Daniel Gallo - guitar
Mark Schneider – bass
Brian West – drums
David Larsen - saxophones, clarinet
Joe Freuen – trombone
Dana Heitman – trumpet
Rob Birdwell  - trumpet, flugelhorn
Katherine Dudney -  cello

Halie Loren glides in flight on her new album Butterfly Blue from newly composed musical poetry to the songbook of American music on the wings of a deepening and darkening musical sense, an extraordinary accompanying group of musicians and a voice to wring out all the passion, pain and promise of living. We are captives of the cages of our lives but the spirit still soars.

The new: “Blue” by sterling guitarist Daniel Gallo, “blue like the deep sea . . . blue like a moonbeam.” Delicate without sentimentality, painful but not maudlin. Gallo’s guitar masterfully weaves under Loren’s voice. “Butterfly” by Loren herself, wherein I think Otis Redding held her hand. I thought he might harmonize on the chorus and perhaps he does somewhere else. “After the Fall” again by Gallo. Paper Moons hang, funny Valentines bring a tear. Songs of life remembered, a soundtrack of a life.

The classic: Charles Trenet’s “I Wish You Love”, sung mostly in French and the more romantic for that. Loren’s voice haunts, evokes all the lyrical romance of the tune. Matt Treder’s piano and David Larsen’s clarinet so perfect in creating the cafe sensibility in play. Mark Schneider’s bass simply perfect. “Stormy Weather” touches the very center of that blues piece, slowed down achingly beyond any version you’ve heard before.

Billie Holiday would approve. Ellington could have arranged. And a bit later, back to back to back, my favorite moments on the album. A playful yet deeply felt “Our Love Is Here to Stay” with Irving Berlin’s wonderful, hopeful lyrics. Again Larsen, this time on baritone sax, would be worth the trip just on his own. And Halie’s phrasing, I think she knew Berlin in an earlier life.

She has also somehow magically visited Cole Porter. “Under My Skin” is launched by a fine instrumental intro with Treder and Schneider leading the way before Loren’s breathy vocal comes in with just a touch of Peggy Lee. All that Porter longing, the pain/pleasure of being caught with no release and maybe none wanted.

On the Loren penned “Danger in Loving You,” heard in a performance version on an earlier recording, she writes to the level of Gershwin and Porter. There’s no release here either. There is of course danger to the heart.

Halie Loren is generally termed a jazz singer and that’s true if you acknowledge that blues underlies jazz, which of course it does. Then there is soul, she has that too. Ask me to walk into a club and conjure up my singer of choice and it would be Halie Loren.

To bend a lyric in “Blue” just a bit, I love her like Sunday. --- Brian Arsenault,i rom.wordpress.com

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