With her album "Growin' Up" coming to stores on June 1st, the jazz composer and singer Esther Berlansky launches a brilliant, if not ingenious top-level debut. Rarely could a concept convince and touch me that much from the very first creative idea to the last chord. […]
She wrote four of the titles by her own, arranged one song from Chick Corea and one from Herbie Hancock besides setting to music two Hungarian folk texts and writing six very creative intermezzi in addition.
Accompanied by a selected, international band she brought together during her studies and which appears amazingly mature, she created a comprehensive artwork of instrumentation, singing and the above mentioned intermezzi that illustrate the cheerfully tweeting daily routine of a contented person. [...]
Here we have one of the best newcomers of the year lying on the turntable - if you'll pardon me for using this antiquated expression.
CD review in "Online Musik Magazin" (OMM)