2026 – La Reserve
Release Date : May 1, 2026
By Phillip
Smith; June 20,
2026
As I listen in delight to Dida
Pelled’s latest album I Wish You Would, I find myself absolutely
swept off my feet from the sound of her voice.
Pelled, a Brooklyn-based jazz prodigy and host of The
Dida Show on Radio Free Brooklyn, beautifully delivers nine scrumptious
tracks of classic blues songs in her heart-melting, torch-singer style. With Pelled on guitar and lead vocals,
she is joined by Sullivan Fortner on piano/Rhodes, Tony Scherr on
bass, and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
Pelled’s re-imagineering of John Lee Hooker’s “Dimples” ushers the record in a jazz-noir, be-bop fashion, and I love every bit of it. Beautifully played and gorgeously sung, “Hesitation Blues” is breathed a new and much sexier life than the versions performed by Sixties blues-rock legends Hot Tuna and Janis Joplin which I cut my teeth on. The classic 1945 Buddy Johnson ballad “Since I Fell For You” never sounded so good. I dig the dreamy way she sings this one and how she gently decorates it with a George Benson-esque style of scat-vocalizing adjoining every note she plays on guitar. Her recording of the 1930 classic “Sittin’ On Top of the World” from The Mississippi Sheiks elevates the song to a captivating whole new level. Following next is an elegant, smooth-jazz cover of the theme for the 1942 film “Blues in the Night” which earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Her performance on this is positively stunning.
Gifted with an amazing voice and a mastery of guitar, Dida Pelled collides the two worlds of jazz and blues, forging a tremendously remarkable listening experience with I Wish You Would.
For more information about Dida
Pelled, visit her website : https://didamusic.com/
For more information about The
Dida Show, visit https://www.radiofreebrooklyn.org/show/the-dida-show/