Wesla Whitfield

Wesla Whitfield is a remarkable singer, with a deep love for that rich storehouse of musical treasures known as the Great American Songbook. Her sound and approach would seem to place her in the intriguing area that borders on both jazz and that aspect of pop music which draws it's material largely from the great standards and neglected gems of such as Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and Rodgers & Hart and Harold Arlen. Wesla, with her husband/pianist /arranger, Mike Greensill has performed at all the leading venues of the day from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the White House. Her many CD's on HighNote records include "My Shining Hour," the Harold Arlen songbook, "With a Song in My Heart," the Rodgers & Hart songbook and her very latest, "Let's Get Lost," the Jimmy McHugh songbook that features the wonderful playing of reed giants Ken Peplowski and Gary Foster.

" Whitfield's back in town: the best cabaret singer in the world. She knows how to point up every lewd nuance in a Cole Porter lyric. But she can also swing as hard as Nat Cole, and her way with a torch song is as devastatingly unsentimental as Sinatra at his late-50's best."

Terry Teachout - NY Daily News