I was born in Lewiston, Maine. My Mom was a great singer. I remember she would just break into song any time so music was a part of my upbringing. Then I started singing when I was ten years old for two radio stations, WLAM and WCOU. At age fifteen I sang with a big band . I performed in the Boston area in the late 50s and early 60s. In the 70s I lived in London and Greece and when I returned I decided I wanted to work with young children. At 45 I stated college at the University of Rhode Island and then taught for 14 years in Providence, R.I. Now I'm retired from teaching and back to my first love - singing good music.

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Kim is backed by a superb trio of musicians. Guitarist Gray Sargent, Marshall Wood on bass, and Jack Menna on drums. These three have played together with Kim in the past and they came together again for this album, to jam and have fun.

Kim Marcoux - Things Are Looking Up
All That Jazz by Johnny Adams
Monterey County Post , October 16, 2003

Ms. Marcoux emerges as a strong vocal personality, getting the full quality from the rich timbre of her voice, even when she is projecting at a relatively easy level. Her delivery owes quite a bit to the early Peggy Lee, as she displays doing She frequently falls into the Lee style of semi-recitative, but it is dressed up in a lyricism that has the sweet soaring wings you might expect from Chris Conner. Ms. Marcoux welds these two rather disparate inclinations together with a personal warmth that shines through so clearly that she stamps every song with her own personality.

Her success in encompassing a wide range is emphasized by the fact that the two best tunes in the set are opposite in style - the reflective For All We Know and a lusty, exciting treatment of Things Are Looking Up written by my dear friend, the late Joe Derise and Marcia Hillman. The trio backing her of guitar, bass and drums give her the strong support she needs to c onvey her feelings for each of the nine selections. The naturalness of these songs can be attributed, at least in part, to Kim' s spontaneity as a performer, for she rarely falls below a reasonably good level of competence as a performer. This is an album that does credit to the vocalist and the songs. As the title suggests, Things are looking up , and there is no other way to go.

Mike Lund, of Serendipity Records, observes, Kim's early introduction to great American music, singing with the bands and constant club work, her love of great lyrics and just living a full life, have given her an affinity and understanding that pervades all her singing. Most importantly her singing to me possess a quality that every singer must have if they are really to be successful and above average. That quality is honesty. When you listen to Kim Marcoux, you are listening to an honest, heart on her sleeve singer. No gimmicks here my friend, simply someone who forgets about herself and becomes the lyric she is singing.

Michael Mascioli, of All Music Services in San Francisco reviewed her new CD and wrote, This is first-rate jazz - a singer with a terrific backup and a terrific sound - not lovely, perhaps, but seasoned and interesting and wine-seeming and open and friendly. And though she swings effortlessly, she also brings an emotional honesty to her songs, and her interpretations resonate. There ís a reedy, whiskey-soaked quality to Marcoux's voice ... It would be hard, if not impossible to single out one track over another as the album's high point - although Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby comes mighty close. And although opening number, the title tune by the later singer-pianist Joe Derise (and Marcia Hillmen) are not quite up to the standard of the Gershwin tune of the same name, in Marcoux's hands you'd hardly know it. Propelled by the languid electric guitar of Gray Sargent, Jack Menna's drumming and the renowned Marshall Wood ... on bass - look, Ma, no piano - it jumpstarts the CD, kicking it into high gear from the very first notes. After that, one great interpretation follows another - pow! pow! pow!