For those unaware, Rosemary Loar’s influences are eclectic. Her first five years in New York City were spent performing a critically acclaimed jazz cabaret act, where she wrote the arrangements and broke new ground in what was then, a very homogenous venue. She left cabaret to go the the bigger stages of Broadway but has since returned.

Her cabaret show When Harry Met The Duke was given a rave by BroadwayWorld.com which said the show was “Out of this world” and “Loar.. has managed to come up with yet another variation, (on The Great American Songbook) and her erudite and accessibly sophisticated new show featuring wonderful jazz, pop, and Broadway songs from the 1930s-’50s goes down well like a delicious vodka martini topped with a skewer of blue cheese-stuffed olives.”

More recently Loar had her Joe’s Pub Debut with her latest cabaret creation “STING*chronicity:v Loar doesn’t simply rearrange numbers; she re-contextualizes them, morphing into a series of characters that sing each song as it arises out of an imagined situation.”

As a commercial recording artist she can be heard on Sting’s soundtrack for the movie The Emperor’s New Groove, the cast albums of Chess and Sunset Boulevard and on the Listening Library series. Her debut CD of original music Alternative Torch was released in 1996, her second, Through Women’s Eyes was produced in 1997 to benefit Susan G. Komen Foundation. Water From The Moon released in 2003 is also the score of Rosemary’s original rock musical by the same name: produced by the Grammy award winning Joel Moss (soundtrack for Chicago).

She produced and wrote all the vocal and string arrangements for her fifth CD Indigo and Iridescent Rosemary’s songs have been featured on NBC’s The Today Show, on The Lifetime Network, at Town Hall, Joe Franklin and Joan Hamburg shows, at the UN Fourth Conference for Women in Beijing and in the documentary Our Daughters, Our Future narrated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The release of Rosemary’s fourth CD, The Quando Swing punctuated her return to the jazz-cabaret scene in 2006 and features standards with a modern take. For Rosemary Loar, jazz is a smorgasbord, a feast of incredible tastes and textures. STING, STANG, STUNG, SWINGING THE MUSIC OF STING is a live recording of her critically acclaimed tribute to the pop icon Sting’s music.

With Rosemary having redefining the intersection between Jazz and the American songbook, we are next to be graced with her brand new recording, entitled Coração Vagabundo [aka Vagabond Heart].

Coração Vagabundo is the latest example of Ms. Loar’s lifelong love of jazz, elegantly showcasing her ability to infuse the genre with international influences and traditional cabaret.

1. Coraçāo Vagabundo
2. Just A Fairy Tale
3. Get Out Of Town
4. Midnight Sun
5. Your Turn To Be Brave
6. You Taught My Heart To Sing
7. Fascinating Rhythm
8. La Belle Dame San Regret
9. I Don’t Want To Know For Sure
10. Show Me
11. I Fall In Love Too Easily
12. Cool

This vibrantly-hued, aesthetically pleasing new recording opens on the delicately-hued Coraçāo Vagabundo and the ornately sculpted Just A Fairy Tale and then brings us the luscious gossamer of Get Out Of Town, the sheer elegance within Midnight Sun, and then we get both the gracefully playful Your Turn To Be Brave and then her vocal expertise comes to the fore on the harmonica-hued You Taught My Heart To Sing.

Along next is the free-flowing Fascinating Rhythm and the finely-spun La Belle Dame San Regret and they are in turn followed by the refined I Don’t Want To Know For Sure, the gently perky Show Me, the album rounding out on the veritably opulent I Fall In Love Too Easily, closing on the upbeat and jaunty Cool.

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