Solitaire Miles

"Vocalist Solitaire Miles sings with warm highs and holds her lows neatly. There's a jazziness about Miles's phrasing, but she holds fast to a sound reminiscent of roadside bars where just three people are left near closing at the pinball machine.” - Wall Street Journal

"Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas includes some of the best Jazz and Roots players and Miles adds a lively vocal style that brings to mind a winning blend of Patsy Cline and Billie Holiday. " - DownBeat Magazine

​​"Miles' voice is wonderful, what an instrument." - Michael Feldman, NPR

​"Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas takes you back to the days of Kay Starr, with the husky voice of Solitaire Miles along with Chicago's best jazz and blues musicians. They get the crowd on the floor with syncopated honky tonking. Miles is a joy and you feel like you’re listening to tunes at the juke box on the counter alongside your hash browns. This band takes you to a place you want to be." - George W Harris, Jazz Weekly

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"Vocalist Solitaire Miles sings with warm highs and holds her lows neatly. There's a jazziness about Miles's phrasing, but she holds fast to a sound reminiscent of roadside bars where just three people are left near closing at the pinball machine.” - Wall Street Journal

"Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas includes some of the best Jazz and Roots players and Miles adds a lively vocal style that brings to mind a winning blend of Patsy Cline and Billie Holiday. " - DownBeat Magazine

​​"Miles' voice is wonderful, what an instrument." - Michael Feldman, NPR

​"Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas takes you back to the days of Kay Starr, with the husky voice of Solitaire Miles along with Chicago's best jazz and blues musicians. They get the crowd on the floor with syncopated honky tonking. Miles is a joy and you feel like you’re listening to tunes at the juke box on the counter alongside your hash browns. This band takes you to a place you want to be." - George W Harris, Jazz Weekly

​​ "Miles has a similar voice to Kay Starr and uses it to great affect. The band is perfect with plenty of guitar, harmonica and added sax with nothing forced, just plain and simple. She does a heartfelt version of "I'm a Fool to Care" which is almost worth buying the whole album for that one song alone.." - Rick Meek, Blue Suede News Magazine

​​ "In her home base of Chicago Solitaire Miles boasts an avid following as a singer equally at home with jazz and blues. Given that combination of styles, it’s no surprise—but an unexpected delight—to hear what she can do... billed as The Lonesome Fellas, she deploys her warm, sultry voice on choice material, strictly top drawer fare, from some of the most important songwriters in history..." David McGee, Deep Roots Magazine

​ "Solitaire has superb phrasing" —Willie Pickens, Chicago jazz pianist

"Listening to singer Solitaire Miles is like stepping into a time machine and going back to a bygone era of great female jazz singers. With a clear, clean voice and keen sense of phrasing, Miles belongs to another period in time" —Brad Walseth, JazzChicago.net

"There are a lot of female singers singing the old songs these days, but I can't think of another singer who sings the kind of songs Solitaire Miles has chosen for her new CD, 'Born to Be Blue'. Trifles like "Make with the Kisses" and "Me and the Moon" are treated like masterpieces by Gershwin or Kern. And that's Miles' secret weapon. She never condescends to the material, but instead invests it with utter commitment and lots of love. Taste, too." —John Chacona, Erie Daily Times

"Solitaire Miles captivates an audience with mesmeric tone, playful, conversational phrasing, and a sinuous sense of swing. Miles has a voice that grabs you, and demands to be listened to. Her natural, unaffected delivery never draws attention to itself, allowing the craft of the song writers to shine through." —Tamara Dailey, Orange County Sentinel

"Billie Holiday with sunshine and air." —Harry Jacobson, Chautuaqua Sympony bassist

"We can learn a lot from the way Miles informs each song with impeccable intonation, flexible phrasing, and historical insight. She can take an obscure Billie Holiday song and recreate it in her own style without sacrificing the mood of it's time." —Marion Herschberger, Brooklyn Free Press

"Her voice is best described as human and earthy, and she presents jazz standards and forgotten favorites in a sassy style of jazz/swing hybrid that has been compared to Mildred Bailey, Billy Holiday and Helen Humes." —Emily Santolla, The Chautauquan Daily

"Solitaire Miles has a voice that makes you think she’s opened a hole in the fabric of time and stepped right out of 1939." —J M Reid, The Kent Observer

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