Friday Night Jazz with Rich Tozier offers selections from vocalist Jackie Ryan’s latest, “Doozy.” It is indeed a doozy, with guests pianist Cyrus Chestnut and saxophonist Eric Alexander.

Jackie Ryan's "Doozy" is, as veteran jazz critic Don Heckman puts it, "a stunningly diverse 2 CD collection of irresistibly compelling performances." Designed as 2 sets one might experience live in a club, it provides the listener with all the dynamic variety of songs one would expect from a concert - and is backed by some of the East Coast's hottest names in jazz:

Cyrus Chestnut (hailed by TIME Magazine as "the best jazz pianist of his generation")
Eric Alexander (JazzWeek's Artist Of The Year)
Jeremy Pelt (5 years voted Down Beat's "Rising Star")
Brazilian virtuoso Romero Lubambo ("Quite simply...the best Brazilian guitarist there is." - Herbie Mann)

But "Dooxy" is more than a follow up to Jackie's "You and The Night and The Music". It is a tour de force through the seemingly limitless breadth and bounty of this artist's myriad musical gifts - from rarely heard jazz gems, to lush soulful intimate ballads - from sensuous Brazilian bossa novas and boleros, to a passionate Spanish love song - from sassy, brassy New Orleans style blues, to sizzling hard-driving bebop punctuated by her own smartly-crafted vocalese lyrics. It is, as Don Heckman states, "Jackie Ryan at her best!"