Five Play: On the Brink

Sherrie Maricle: Leader, Drums
Karoline Strassmayer: Alto Saxophone, Flute
Laura Dreyer: Alto Saxophone, Flute
Lorraine Desmarais: Piano
Nicki Parrott: Bass

Sherrie Maricle, the exciting drummer and leader of the all woman big band, Diva, has assembled a quintet of talented ladies for her band within a band, resulting in a hard driving jazz program with varying moods, rhythms and tempi. But gender has nothing to do with it. As Stanley Kay, the founder of Diva puts it, "if you can play, you can play." And these five can certainly play.

Five Play: On the Brink was selected as a 1999 Critics Picks top 5 album in the February 2000 issue of JazzTimes by Nat Hentoff

Selections:
I'll Get By
I've Got the World on a String
How Insensitive
On the Brink
Medley: I'm A Fool to Want You; In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning; This Love of Mine
Scatterbrain
Shifting Down
Like Someone in Love
Some Nerve
Someone Nice Like You
Momma Flossie
How Deep Is the Ocean
I Believe in You