Jazz Articles about Patti Wicks

Patti Wicks Trio: Dedicated To...

by C. Michael Bailey
July 26, 2009

Pianist/singer Patti Wicks started out in New York City, moved to Florida and then each year or so since 2004 has rendezvoused with her Italian rhythm section of bassist Giovanni Sanguineti and drummer Giovanni Guillino in Italy to record successful trio sessions supplemented with a horn, typically a saxophone. For 2005's Basic Feeling (Studiottanta-Fortuna), Wicks was joined by alto saxophonist Claudio Chiara, while The Italian Sessions (2007, Studiottanta-Fortuna) joined Wicks with tenor saxophonist Gianni Basso and, in 2008, she went ...

Patti Wicks: It's a Good Day

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 21, 2009

Ad un ascolto superficiale si rischia di classificare Patti Wicks tra le cantanti che il mercato discografico ha accolto nel tentativo di cercare un'altra Diana Krall. Abbiamo la stessa formula con una cantante e pianista ottima e una solida sezione ritmica, ma ci sono differenze importanti: la Wicks non canta testi di autori moderni, le sue interpretazioni degli standards sono di livello sopraffino. Basta già la “Everything Happens to Me" d'apertura a rendere la qualità artistica di questa cantante e ...

Claudio Chiara - Patti Wicks: Two for the Roads

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 26, 2008

Empatia; condivisione d'intenti; vibrante jazz feeling; felice vis comunicativa. Sono le carte vincenti di questo bel CD, firmato dal duo italo-statunitense Claudio Chiara-Patty Wicks. Sax alto e pianoforte per un incontro condotto all'insegna del bel suonare, con rara sensibilità ed estrema perizia tecnica. Un duo dall'intesa perfetta, che si impone per eleganza di fraseggio ed ispirate, cantabili linee melodiche, portate a privilegiare ballad e tempi medi. Ne vien fuori una raffinata ed eterea filigrana sonora, che riecheggia con piglio deciso ...

Patti Wicks Trio: It's A Good Day

by C. Michael Bailey
March 16, 2008

It's A Good Day is pianist/vocalist Patti Wicks' follow-up to her 2007 The Italian Sessions and her 2005 Basic Feeling. On both of these recordings, Wicks employs the Italian rhythm section of bassist Giovanni Sanguineti and drummer Giovanni Guillino. If three times is a charm, then It's A Good Day has much to live up to.

Happily, this disc fares well in comparison to the two earlier releases. Wicks if found in very good voice, plunging her deep alto deeper ...

Patti Wicks Trio: Italian Sessions

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 16, 2007

Una voce che racconta storie in modo quasi intimo; un pianoforte che sottolinea il cantato; una sezione ritmica che non invade mai la scena. Patti Wicks ritorna in trio con Italian Sessions, una piccola perla. In questo disco, inciso alla fine del 2005, la cantante e pianista americana si affianca al giovane contrabbassista Giovanni Sanguineti e a Giovanni Gullino alla batteria. A questo trio si unisce poi in alcune tracce il sax di Gianni Basso, una delle colonne storiche del ...

Patti Wicks Trio: The Italian Sessions

by C. Michael Bailey
February 7, 2007

Patti Wicks represents the historical apex of female jazz pianists/vocalists, with Nina Simone and Shirley Horn on one side and Patricia Barber and Dena DeRose on the other. Wicks has loads of talent and the unique ability to take the simplest cocktail jazz trifle and make it sound like Shakespeare. Her previous recordings, Room at the Top, Love Locked Out and Basic Feeling, all tastefully revealed a vast, understated talent worthy of ample acreage in the field of jazz vocals. ...

Patti Wicks/JazzGuests: Basic Feeling

by C. Michael Bailey
April 20, 2005

Patti Wicks has a single malt voice and a Basie brevity in her pianism. Slipping under the MaxJazz radar, Wicks traveled to Italy to record with a native rhythm section of bassist Giovanni Sanguineti and drummer Giovanni Gullino. She was joined by the fine alto saxophonist Claudio Chiara, who provided tasty obbligato, comping, and solos to the swinging mainstream of the eight pieces on this release.

Wicks' previous recording, Love Locked Out, featured the pianist/vocalist in a trio ...