I became curious about Jacintha because she seems to be an audiophile darling, among many in the female vocalist category. Out of curiosity, both musical and technical, I've gotten two of her recordings, Lush Live on cd and Jacintha is Her Name on SACD. She is pitch perfect and very smooth, but sounds a little emotionally repressed, lacks some angst or something. She has an excellent voice, but being presented on a audiophile platter has some constraints, high expectations all around. The recordings are very good, much better than average, and the accompanying muscians, first rate. Another engineer who excels in this category is Bill Schnee, check out Eric Reed on Impulse, Pure Imagination, a little more energy here, but same accoustic depth. I'd like to see Jacintha backed up by a group that gave her a kick in the seat; take off the kid gloves and she just might get down!
Everyone Knows About Jacintha, Right?
I'm only posting this because before the NYC HiEnd show I didn't, and I consider myself fairly musically literate. I listened to one cut on the CD player/headphone setup at Elusive Disc and bought three of her albums sight unheard. Wow. If you like female jazz vocals these are must haves. The sound ain't bad either!