Lauren Meccia - Inside Your Eyes (2014)

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Lauren Meccia - Inside Your Eyes (2014)

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From the upstate region of South Carolina to the musical meccas of the jazz universe is an unexpected journey for anyone to travel. Yet Lauren Meccia’s debut vocal album, Inside Your Eyes, will introduce the diversely talented vocalist, saxophonist and composer to an unsuspecting world-wide audience. Through the album’s vintage yet crisp, cosmopolitan sound, listeners will be transported to the famous, gritty jazz clubs of the mid-20th century such as The Embers, The Village Vanguard and The Cotton Club.

Accompanied by regular bandmate and bassist Mike Frost and renowned pianist Donald Vega, Meccia set aside her saxophones in favor of a microphone at Spirit Studio in Aiken, S.C., to record 11 tracks of rich, velvety smooth vocals that include two original songs, plus one original instrumental. Inside Your Eyes will be officially released September 25, following a soft release during a West Coast Tour September 17-21.

Meccia and Vega combined their talents to compose “If You Can Fly” and the title track “Inside Your Eyes” — featuring the haunting reprise “The truth is not disguised inside your eyes” — with Meccia penning the lyrics and Vega composing the music for both. Frost composed the album’s lone instrumental track, “Atlantis,” which features a sampling of Mecca’s brilliance on saxophone and highlights Vega’s piano mastery. Throughout, Frost provides the backbone on his custom Clifford Roi basses with Brian Czach on percussion.

The balance of Inside Your Eyes includes Meccia’s vocal interpretations of Herbie Hancock’s “Butterfly,” Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek,” Burt Bacharach’s “What The World Needs Now” and “The Look Of Love” and more, concluding with a lilting rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” Inside Your Eyes was produced and engineered, and most of the music arranged, by Frost.