Jessica's outstanding vocals are in collaboration with top-notch musicianship and production. She excels on the seductive I Can't Make You Love Me and another highlight is Perfect World. Can't wait to see this most talented artist in concert.
The Platters showcase their trademark slow, romantic, pretty songs from the Fifties and throw in a few other timeless 20th century standards, The woman in the quintet, Jessica Taylor, wows the place with Gloria Gaynor’s 1979 hit “I Will Survive.’ During her rendition of Gladys Knight’s 1973 classic, “Midnight Train to Georgia,” the whole room is stricken with her solid notes. One precious moment was when the singer threw out the lines, “I got to go” and the 25-year- old waitress, Sarah, knelt down at the front table to take drink orders and tossed her head in time with the music and sang the same words. In a few hours the place was filled with dozens of people her age reveling to their 2002 sound. It was nice to see that The Platters and early ‘performers’ music truly does cross generational and racial boundaries. For the past 14 yeats the group has traveled to Japan to perform at 10 or 12 venues and fill a l4,000 seat theater for one night. This year that large concert is already almost sold out. “People of all sorts will always embrace this music,” said Powell. “You can feel the songs.”