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 " 'Extraordinary' is the word ! From her song selection to her voice to her accompaniment, singer Jackie Ryan has it all! Any jazz singer who can claim praise from the likes of Clark Terry, Jon Hendricks and Terry Gibbs deserves careful consideration. And Jackie Ryan has those accolades and more. But praise aside, the proof is always in the hearing. And on Thursday at the Vic in Santa Monica, Ryan superbly affirmed that her singing places her in the top level of the jazz vocal art. .....a timbre that reached from whiskey-and-honey chest notes to clear-as-air head tones; the capacity to slip and slide with easeacross everything from gospel melismas to blues belting; a sense of phrasing that managed the difficult feat of telling a lyrical story without interrupting the narrative flow with intrusive sidebar displays of vocal virtuosity. ....Ryan is a singer who deserves to be heard, a singer who revives the finest qualities of the jazz vocal art." Don Heckman, LA Times Jackie Ryan's star is rising. She just returned from two sold-out shows at New York's Lincoln Center playing with an all star band including Cyrus Chestnut, Eric Alexander, Jeremy Pelt and Romero Lubambo. She has been invited back to be a part of their Women in Jazz series. Her last CD This Heart of Mine made #5 on the National Jazz chart and won rave reviews from all of the major jazz magazines. Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jackie has been singing her whole life. She has wowed the critics with her powerful voice and engaging stage presence. Now she is back at Steamers to celebrate the exciting CD release of her latest recording, "You and The Night and The Music" featuring an all star Los Angeles group. Joining Jackie will be:: Tamir Hendelman on piano, Christoph Luty bass Jeff Hamilton on drums and Rickey Woodard sax. "Ryan has been compared to Sarah Vaughan for her majestic range, to Billie Holiday for her delicacy of nuance, to Betty Carter for her sax like agility and audacious bending of a line, but in the end she is nobody's singer but her own." London Guardian