"Grace is as fine a singer as I have ever worked with. Most singers that make it on stage have good pipes, good looks or both. But Grace is that rare thing among lovely female singers - a musician. Though originally from Australia, Grace lived in Boston and worked its intensely competitive music scene (while getting her PhD at MIT), then in the DC area for a number of years. She has studied jazz, its history and its exponents. She also has studied music.

"There is the old joke - How do you know when a singer is at your door? She just keeps knocking because she forgot the key and doesn't know when to come in.

"This is most emphatically NOT Grace Chung. She not only knows her keys, she writes her own arrangements and always shows up with her attitude intact. As a musician who has accompanied many singers, I have found Grace to be the breath of fresh air that makes me believe in the concept of a vocalist again.

"Her creativity is astounding - a song never sounds quite the same from night to night, yet always finds the emotional resonance that moves a listener. Her arrangements are astute and original. Her ability to transform a song, bend a genre and evoke emotion are unmatched. Watch this astounding young singer. You'll be hearing more from her. I am proud to have worked with her and to have had a role on this album.

"Yes - the album. LIKING YOU LIKING ME is not exactly a straight jazz album. There's no drummer. It's also not pop. There's no bass guitar, samples or electronic drum track. What the CD is, is pure Grace - jazzy, modern, with a gumbo of flavors from a variety of musical sources - urban, grooving, somehow techno and yet always swinging.

"Grace collaborated with my good friend and long-time co-conspirator, John Kamman on the arrangements for this CD. An amazing and sensitive guitarist, John is also a fine composer of jazz and chamber music. Listen and you'll hear jazz standards updated with a new time signature or a reggae groove. An old country corn pone tune becomes a lovely and fresh duet. A little medley of Celia Cruz hits is reinterpreted with only a touch of salsa. The CD features tunes by Blossom Dearie, Tom Waits, Cole Porter, Burt Bacharach, Jacques Brel and others. Some tunes are pure dark alley mysterioso and some tunes just swing hard.

"Click the "ORDER" link and spend an evening with Grace Chung. You'll be glad you did."

- Alan Lewine, string bass
President, Owlsong Productions