The Daily News – New Plymouth by Harry Brown
13th March 2003
As the sports desk people say, Caitlin Smith and the Fondue Set was very much a game of two halves.
The first half was an extrovert display of vocal and instrumental jazz a la Cleo Laine, her two guitarists, Nigel Gavin and Steve Gerrish setting [...]
e.g., CD Reviews by Graham Reid
4 out of 5 stars
November 30 – December 6, 2000
As with their fine debut album last year – the equally cheesily named Stick a Fork In It – this is a thoroughly enjoyable, intelligent selection of tunes by the Auckland jazz trio fronted by Caitlin Smith, who adroit vocal [...]
New Zealand Musician, Feature, by Alice Shopland
June/July 1999, Vol 8, No. 3.
After two years strutting their stuff at Auckland jazz venues, The Fondue Set has released their debut CD. The wide appeal of “Stick A Fork In It” has placed it in the unusual position of being played both on easy listening station 1ZB [...]
New Idea by Dionne Christian
April 3rd 1999
When singer Caitlin Smith received a telephone call from a man named ‘Rocket’ who said rocker Courtney Love wanted Caitlin to be her vocal coach, she thought it was a joke.
But as he talked, Caitlin, 27, realised he was serious. Singer-songwriter Jan Hellreigel had recommended Caitlin to Courtney, [...]
As part of its multimillion millennium outlay, the Canadian government not only connected up the last portions of the epic 16,000 km Trans Canada walking trail but also commissioned the country’s most famous name in jazz, Oscar Peterson, to compose a suite to commemorate the achievement. The result, Trail of Dreams, a joint effort between Peterson’s quartet and the string ensemble of Michel Legrand (a touch of political correctness here, including the Frenchman?) is a set of 12 “soundscapes” that seek to capture the breadth of Canadiana, geographical and cultural.