Quotes

“I’m a Jazz and Blues vocal purist, and Jami’s got it” 

-Marion Cowings, Clio Award Winner, Co-Founder of the Vocal Jazz department at NYU 

“Her voice is beautiful in any genre. Jami can sing anything” 

-Yvette Nicole Brown, Emmy nominated actress 

In her debut jazz album, The Shape of My Heart, she is soft, gentle, and delicate, with no hard edges; she’s more intimate, more tender, more inward-looking. This is Templeton exploring more personal emotions and depths of feeling than she’s displayed in the past. This Templeton is indeed showing the shape of her heart, and it is filled with love and inspiration.

Elliot Zweibach – Cabaret Scenes

Though enigmatically autobiographical, The Shape of My Heart more importantly introduces a vocalist whose intimate sultriness and vulnerability often imbues her song choices with heretofore unheard poignance. The depth she plumbs in Lady Antebellum’s country-pop crossover, “Need You Now,” alone justifies her effort; but the wonders she works on numbers first popularized by Sting, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks and Al Green shimmer with an interpretive depth.

Jamie Lee Rake – Shepherd Express

Room at the Top is not a song that is widely-covered so when I heard Jami Templeton’s recording I was instantly engaged and my eyes began to water again. The lyrics of the song are poignant and the melody is gorgeous. I listened to it three times in a row, embracing the emotion of the performance and the powerful memory connected to the song. You absolutely need to hear this song.Templeton’s voice is warm and expressive, thoughtful and nuanced.

David Reed – Belleville Intelligencer

Each song has been carefully selected for its portrayal of crucial emotions, aspirations, or turning points in life. Joel Frahm on tenor saxophone, Andy Langham on piano and melodica, Edwin Livingston on bass, and Charles Ruggiero on drums surround and support Jami Templeton's memorable performance, in this treasure for personal and public library music collections.

Midwest Book Review

With a set list of classics and chestnuts that defies time and genre limits, she delightfully refashions these songs you've worn out the grooves on, but you've never heard them like this. Quite the enchanting set…

Chris Spector – Midwest Record