Shades of Red: Antonella Leotta reads six jazz standards

Antonella Leotta's Shades of Red was released on 27 April 2026. A six-track EP devoted to six standards from the jazz vocal canon, recorded as a quartet.

About Antonella Leotta

A Catania-born vocalist, Leotta combines jazz training and lyric singing (with a lyric-singing diploma and advanced studies with mezzo-soprano Biancamaria Casoni). She won the Massimo Urbani Jazz Contest in the vocals category, with Stefano Bollani on the jury. She has been the lead vocalist of the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo, sharing the stage with names such as Bob Mintzer and Gianni Basso, and serves as a soloist with the Coro Lirico Siciliano while collaborating with the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. Her catalog includes three previous albums (The Sound of the Beat, Swing to the Moon, First).

The quartet

Antonella Leotta (vocals), Nello Toscano (double bass), Seby Burgio (piano), Peppe Tringali (drums). The same rhythm section that has run through the Anaglyphos catalog since 2022 in Toscano's Inside and Stories. The project was previewed by the single Tin Tin Deo in June 2025.

The six tracks

1. Harlem Nocturne
2. Easy to Love (Cole Porter)
3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Rodgers/Hart)
4. Tin Tin Deo (Gillespie/Pozo)
5. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Cole Porter)
6. Love for Sale (Cole Porter)

Six pages at the center of the jazz vocal tradition, read with a fidelity to the canon that leaves room for the timbral force and swing phrasing of Leotta's voice.