Your favorite brassy belter, Baby Jane Dexter, has released a new disc recoreded live at the Metropolitan Room on Quannacut Records that captures the essence of this distinctive and acclaimed performer. Dexter brings her world-weary, lived-in experience to everything she sings and her material here is choice. From Lucinda Williams to Rodgers & Hammerstein, Dexter takes a song and makes it her own.

David Hurst
, NEXT Magazine, May 15, 2009


Baby Jane Dexter has always had a spellbinding effect on her audiences, perhaps never more than in her last turn at the Metropolitan Room. Now, giving new meaning to the term, "by popular demand," Dexter has just released the live recording of that wildly successful show, If... on Quannacut Records. Containing show-stopping paeans to life such as "Remember," "Long Road Home" and "This Nearly Was Mine," the album captures the magic that filled the room leaving her fans laughing and crying out loud. Read more>

John Hoglund,
Cabaret Scenes, May, 2009


There's another take on "If I Ruled the World" on Baby Jane Dexter's just-released CD. She's nominated in the Major Artist category for her live shows, and this is a live recording of her latest act. With the exception of her first recording, all of Baby Jane's albums are recorded live in clubs where one gets a sense of her connection with audiences and outsized personality, often seeming a steamroller at full steam. Something new and refreshingly mature and more disciplined has characterized her recent work, quite evident in her new show/CD, If. For those who like singing on the bombastic and boisterousness side, this bluesy diva has always found fans in a long career. Now, there's much more and, though she still has her hurricane moments, it's not always that approach as a matter of course (or coarse) and there is, yes, subtlety, but it's so much more than a wild ride on a one-trick pony. And it's all more in control. Read more>

Rob Lester,
Talkin' Broadway, May 2009

 

New Release - May 2009

if
Live at the Metropolitan Room

Recorded November 2008
Release May 2009

Vocals, Baby Jane Dexter
Piano, Ross Patterson
Bass, Boots Maleson

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 1. Moving Forward
 2. Side of the Road  
 3. Remember  
 4. What If  
 5. The "In" Crowd  
 6. If I Had A Million  
 7. Spinning Wheel  
 8. I Don't Remember You  
 9. An Ordinary Couple  
10. This Nearly Was Mine  
11. T'Aint Nobody's Business If I Do  
12. Hi-diddle-Dee-De  
13. If I Ruled the World  
14. Long Road Home  
15. Always Something There To Remind Me  
16. Why Did I Choose You?  
17. They Can't Take That Away From Me  
18. Everybody Hurts  

Video:
Baby Jane Sings Everybody Hurts at the Metropolitan Room, May 2009

 



 
You're Following Me!

Live at the Metropolitan Room
Released March, 2008

Vocals, Baby Jane Dexter
Piano, Ross Patterson
Bass, Steve Doyle
Drums, David Silliman

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1. Intro
2. Superstar Listen
3. Some Enchanted Evening Listen
4. Got To Get You Into My Life Listen
5. Ring Baby Ring Listen
6. Sneakin' Up On You Listen
7. Damn Your Eyes Listen
8. You're Following Me Listen
9. Make Believe Listen
10. The Very Thought Of You Listen
11.All I Have To Do Is Dream/ Dancing On The Ceiling
12. Transition dialogue
13. Love Potion # 9 Listen
14. The Wail Of The Reefer Man/Candy Man Listen
15. You Really Got A Hold On Me Listen
16. Precious Pain Listen
17. Fools Rush In Listen
18. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart Listen

 

"When God took Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ruth Etting, Helen Morgan...he gave us Baby Jane Dexter in return. If you doubt it, go hear what she does, just for one hair-raising instance...with the song that's the pivot of her current pile-driving 'intimate opera,' Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin's great old standard, 'Until The Real Thing Comes Along'."
The Villager

"If you want to hear songs that haven't been done to death by everyone else, sung by a powerhouse whose belief in her material feels unshakeable, savor Baby Jane Dexter."
Chip Deffaa, New York Post

 

 

 I Got Thunder

Debut Studio Album with 17 musicians
Original Release Date: September 1992

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1. I Got Thunder Listen
2. Until The Real Thing Comes Along Listen (full track)
3. One Meatball Listen
4. San Diego Serenade Listen
5. For All We Know Listen
6. I Put A Spell On You Listen
7. You Really Got a Hold On Me Listen
8. Fifteen Ugly Minutes Listen
9. You Can Think Twice Listen
10. You Don't Know What Love Is Listen
11. Love Hurts Listen
12. When I'm Gone Listen
13. Forever Young Listen



"Ultimately, Big, Bad & Blue, Live! is every bit about the cabaret experience and its intimacy. Dexter bonds with her audience on many levels, practically introducing the SRO crowd to one another.. fueled by a brilliant sense of dynamics and emotive sensitivity....Dexter's performance is an emotionally charged, soul-stirring thing to behold." Mike Bieber, JAZZIZ

"With a meticulously chosen, eclectic set of songs -- from some unlikely sources as well as the likes of Strayhorn/Ellington -- Dexter accomplishes what she always sets out to do: Create an emotional bond with her audience, a la cabaret, but via musicality rather than imposed anguish....Her songs are as much dramatic performances as they are pop music...It's tough to figure out which is more remarkable, Baby Jane Dexter's new show or the fact she isn't signed to a major label."
John Anderson, Newsday

 



Big, Bad & Blue Live!


Baby Jane's legendary, long-running show at Eighty-Eights

Baby Jane Dexter, Vocals
Ross Patterson, Piano
Original Release Date: February 25, 1997

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+ shipping and handling

1. Painted Lady Listen
2. Live the Life I Sing About In My Song Listen
3. Do Right Woman Listen
4. Throw It Away Listen
5. One Meatball Listen
6. Take A Look Listen
7. Wish Someone Would Care Listen
8. Walk A Mile In My Shoes Listen
9. Damn Your Eyes Listen
10. Dirty Man
11. Blues In The Night Listen
12. Something To Live For Listen
13. Big Body Woman Listen
14. More Listen (full track)
15. Live The Life...(Reprise)

 

"In her exceptional show at Arci's Place, Baby Jane Dexter takes you on a vivid emotional journey. It's a wonderful show."
Chip Deffaa, New York Post

"Ms. Dexter is Mother Nature incarnate. She is a no nonsense singer that sings with the power of an erupting volcano and the sincerity of a street-wise earth mother that's been there, done that. Her Alto voice grabs each note and doesn't let go until she's sure that you've listened to her, damnit!...When she sings, I Want More, you better get it for her, no matter what it is that she wants more of. One of Ms. Dexter's signature tunes is “You Don't Know What Love Is. It's included here as a medley with Billy Strayhorn's gem of a tune, Something to Live For. This is where Ms. Dexter lays it all on the line through her raw, bare and sentimental renditions of these ballads. A word of warning to many of you cabaret music aficionados who like your music like wallpaper, Ms. Dexter must be listened to. Even through her recordings, she will disrupt your dinner party. She takes us back to the days when voices were distinct and unique. This CD almost feels like seeing her live. She's great."
William Gregory, Midwest Ursine

 

 

With Arms Wide Open
Live at Arci's Place
Original release: 2002

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.1 Intro  
2. With Arms Wide Open Listen
3. Taking a Chance On Love Listen
4. Sweet Simple Love Listen
5. I Want More Listen
6. Telephone Songs  
7. The Gentleman Is a Dope  
8. You Don't Know What Love Is Listen
9. Something to Live For Listen
10. Spinning Whee Listen
11. Damn Your Eyes  
12 Walk a Mile in My Shoes  
13 Is You Is Listen
14 Hello Young Lovers Listen
15 More  
16 Forever Young Listen