By C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
Russian-American singer Svetlana Shmulyian has blended an East Europe/Russia combination of elegant determination and delicate grit into the American Songbook on her debut recording Night at the Speakeasy (AO2 Records, 2016), and then film music on Night at the Movies (Starr Records, 2020). The artist surprised listeners by dropping an outtake from Night at the Movies, “Young and Beautiful” from The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros., 2013) in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full review here.