Marianne Matheny-Katz, one of Baltimore's reigning jazz divas, will be performing tunes from her new CD, Somewhere in Paradise. The album has been receiving fine reviews and considerable airplay nationwide. Ms. Matheny-Katz will be accompanied by a band of stellar musicians from Baltimore and the DC area. The album features ten beloved songs from the Great American Songbook dressed in engaging new arrangements by Matheny-Katz and her band members. 

Writing in the liner notes, jazz critic John Murph calls Matheny-Katz “a captivating singer” who “possesses a quintessential jazz voice, which she enlivens with lissome, conversational phrasing.” In a review for the Baltimore Jazz Alliance, WEAA radio personality John Tegler writes, “Marianne Matheny-Katz’s new CD, Somewhere in Paradise, comes as close to being perfect as any I have heard!