“Jaclyn Rose reminded me of Nina Simone, a jazz singer with classical training and soulful voice. She sang Ain’t No Sunshine, a classic Bill Withers song, performed Afro-Cuban style. Dearly Beloved, is a jazz standard, written by Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer, with musical arrangements done by her. Another original written and arranged by Jaclyn is Kick It, which will be on her next CD that she is currently recording.

The audience loved The Flipside, another original song written and arranged by Jaclyn Rose. “The band traded on their 8 measures, where each musician got to solo for 8 measures and it went around the band a few times during the song… the musician order of the solos was planned although no one knew what each musician was gonna play, that was unplanned,” Rex Sampaga shared.

“Did you notice during the solos, the bass player (Andrew Ford) played the bass-line for a Stevie Wonder song called, I Wish and then when it came time for the keyboardist solo (Gregg Karukas), he answered back with a few bars of Stevie Wonder’s Superstition? That was unplanned, just the “planned” spontaneity and what jazz is all about…AND this was the song that both Jaclyn and Michael Paulo were doing their synchronized dancing to,” he added…”