Mets? You know the New Yorkers known many decades ago in newspaper lingo as Metropolitans which then became as most things in Da Apple shortened to Mets. Many Mets and me and my group from Vegas and California gathered at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York's East Village last Wednesday to see this match up. The Mets never had a chance as the co-ed team of Greta's Bakery won every minute of the hour they performed. It was a shutout and yet the locals went home feeling good.

Mike La Valle on bass, Andrea Sammartino hit the keys and Curtis King added some vocal for Greta's Bakery but the power hitter, center fielder and team captain was Greta Panettieri, a vocalist that is giving an old traditional jazz and scat guy like me hope for the future. Her mixture of classic jazz style woven with original lyrics and comtemperary rhythm make for a great combination, very easy on the ears.
Hard to define but a pleasant new sound.

Most of the groups I have heard who try to move jazz into twenty first century fail and bore me.

Greta accomplishes it with relative ease.
Her lyrical agility is awesome and she can scat with the best of them. Usually when I see a young singer scat, they lose me, Greta kept me wanting more.

From the Latin rhythm of “What You See is What You Get”to the sweet and sassy “Useless” The Bakery has come up with pastry delights for all tastes.

Greta studied violin in Italy, but lucky for us she turned to her love of American Jazz and vocalizing.

If you love a great female vocalist who can sound like a mixture of the ladies who stood in front of the Big Bands years ago and still tug at your heart with affection in todays sounds, and stay right there with the musicians behind them when it comes to rhythm and musical ability you will love Greta.

She's soft, sexy and has a very nice range to work with. And her stage presents is charming.

Greta Panettieri.