Enjoy a few select items from our media scrapbook
“This is the most enjoyable female jazz vocal CD that I have heard in a long time. What is it about Australian girls that makes them such delightful jazz vocalists?”
“Miss Harris shows that rare skill in that she understands the lyrics and interprets them with relevance.”
CD review, Here's Looking at You
- Derek Ansell, Jazz Journal (U.K.)
English Jazz Journal
2013
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Jazzline
2013
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"... all professionally presented by Melbourne songstress Anita Harris. Anita gets strong support from a tight rhythm section with guest instrumentalists providing sympathetic accompaniment."
CD Review, Here's Looking at You
- Don Brow, Australian Jazz Scene, May 2013.
“Anita has become quite well known around the traps for her impeccable vocal style and here is her latest CD of well known standards interspersed with less well known but good songs that her fans will enjoy very much. Anita sings beautifully with spot-on accuracy in pitch and diction.”
CD Review, Here's Looking at You
– Mike McKeon, Jazzline
Jazz Scene
2013
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South Gippsland Jazz Newsletter
2012
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"Anita was ably supported by an excellent quartet of musicians who performed as a high quality, tight unit."
Performance review - South Gippsland Newsletter
- Neil "The Hat" Taylor
"The leader of the Anita Harris Quintet is one of Australia's finest female vocalists and made a striking opening to the program."
Feature on the Paynesville Jazz Festival
- Bairnsdale Advertiser, February 2008.
Bairnsdale Advertiser
2008
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Peninsula-Wide
2007
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"Stay home and watch a video."
- Anita's Mum, All the time.
"The presentation maintains a gently appealing rhythm, sometimes unexpected adventurous tempos and shadings while exploiting an eminently suitable selection of great songs ... It all emphasises Harris's feeling for her music, matching the instrumentalists in the art of highlighting through understatement."
The Wee Small Hours review
- Michael Foster, Canberra Times, June 2005.
Canberra Times
2005
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Bairnsdale Advertiser
2007
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"... every performance has a freshness and variety to it."
Article promoting the Paynesville Jazz Festival
- Bairnsdale Advertiser, February 2007.
"Anita Harris is one of those very rare vocal stylists who have wide appeal to a range of age groups and jazz preferences in her audiences. “
“[The recording is] a credit to the performer and to the entirely sympathetic and complementary accompaniment from some of Melbourne’s best mainstream musos.”
The Wee Small Hours review
- Ron Spain, Australian Jazz Scene, April 2006
Australian Jazz Scene
2006
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Jazzline
2005
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"Overall, this group handles arrangements with just the right touch."
The Wee Small Hours review
- Ron Jobe, Jazzline, Winter 2005
"Her life's a lot of jazz."
Local article
- Zoe Lewis, Waverley Gazette 2005
Waverley Gazette
2005
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Knox Journal
2001
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"“She has a strong fluid contralto which she employs to produce a delightfully creamy sound and she swings ably and effortlessly. … I liked this set a lot and she is clearly someone to keep an eye and ear on in the future.”
Moments in Time review - Bruce Crowther
- Bruce Crowther, UK Jazz Journal, 2000
"Anita as a solo artist and with her Anita Harris Quartet is a highly regarded performer at festivals and other venues where beautiful music is appreciated."
UK Jazz Journal
2000
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