Jazz Articles about Terrie Richards Alden

Terrie Richards Alden/Howard Alden: Love

by C. Michael Bailey
November 1, 2001

Terrie Alden's super follow up to Voice With Heart .

Warren Vaché and Bill Charlap produced a beautifully intimate duet recording in 2Gether (Nagel Heyer). At the time, I thought this collaboration would be hard to top, but topped it was and on the same record label to boot. Terrie Richards Alden and her guitarist husband Howard Alden have released Love, a song cycle to romance, surveying the American Canon of love songs in a closely personal way.

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Terri Richards Alden with the Warren Vache: Voice with Heart

by C. Michael Bailey
June 1, 1999

Brillant Throwback. A major trend in classical music recording and performance centered on words like “period" and “historically informed." The phrase “Period Performance" has several definitions: using authentic instruments and tunings from the period the composition being played was composed. Another would be using modern instruments built in the form of the authentic instruments of the period, or a strict adherence to the metronomic and other instructions of the composer. This latter definition bleeds into the concept of Historically-Informed" performance. ...