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Ada Bird Wolfe

Ada Bird Wolfe is a jazz singer and lyricist located in Los Angeles. After many years in other professions, Ms. Wolfe returned to singing, her first love, in 2010. She has performed at venues throughout Southern California including Au Lac, Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill, Gardenia Supper Club, Upstairs at Vitello’s and Bar Fedora. Critics have called her: a “potent jazz singer,” “brilliant” and “magical,” with “stories to tell.” In addition to sets in clubs and restaurants, she has created a number of major shows: The French Show, Vol 1, Jazzography, Chanteuse, Soliloquy and Blues-A-Licious. In 2015 she created Giant Shoulders, a multi-show series exploring jazz musicians and composers, which so far has included: Monk-O-Sphere, And the Word Was Mingus, and The Saint and the Sinner Man: Miles Davis and John Coltrane

Odd Bird

By Ada Bird Wolfe

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Odd Bird Bop; In The Shade; Something Fast, Something Light; Ericolloquy; Ashes, Ashes; Lover's Leap; The Wave; Samba Batucada; Did I Ever; Ordinary Man; Ocean, Mountain, River, Sky; An Egg.

September 2022: Jazz Child

by C. Michael Bailey
September 26, 2022

Sheila Jordan Live At Mezzrow's Cellar Music 2022 Nonagenarian Sheila Jordan is a jazz singer enjoying an incandescent twilight. In late 2021, Jordan appeared on Roseanna Vitro's Sing A Song of Bird (Skyline Records, 2021) singing a song contra-composed in her honor from Charlie Parker's “Cheryl," -"Sheila, Jazz Child." Jordan, ...

T.S. Monk, Grant Stewart & Theo Croker

by Joe Dimino
August 14, 2022

Innovative trumpeter Theo Croker begins the 764th Episode of Neon Jazz with a song off his album Love Quantum. The theme of the hour is modern jazz released in 2022. We also hear new material from T.S. Monk off his first live album and feature Dan Olivo, Steve Hudson, Tim Lin and Steve Knight. Listen in ...

Ada Bird Wolfe: Odd Bird

by Richard J Salvucci
July 15, 2022

There is a style of singing--midway between conversation and conventional vocal technique—which can only be called talk-singing, or something to that effect. It puts considerable weight on the meaning of the song, the words themselves, rather than the melody per se. Chances are, one could not hum such a tune if one wanted to. To some ...

Lauren White: Ever Since The World Ended

by C. Michael Bailey
April 7, 2021

There is a cadre of West Coast jazz musicians who tacitly orbit one Mark Winkler. This embarrassing wealth of talent includes: Cheryl Bentyne, Dolores Scozzesi, Judy Wexler, Robyn Spangler, Gary Brumburgh, Jeffery Gimble, Ada Bird Wolfe, and our present subject, Lauren White. White, an original East Coast product, expatriated to Westward to act and sing...and record. ...

New Releases From Yoko Miwa and Dave Stryker Plus A Valentines Salute to Blanche Calloway

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 22, 2021

This Valentines Day broadcast includes new releases from pianist Yoko Miwa, vocalists Ada Bird Wolfe, Valentina Marino, Laila Biali and guitarist Dave Stryker, plus birthday shout outs to Blanche Calloway, Carmen Staaf and Sharel Cassity, among others. Also remembered was vocalist and educator Carol Fredette. Thanks for your continued support. Please help all of these fine ...

He & Me

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Mind to Mind (ESP); Night in Tunisia; Sweet Nardis; You’re Everything; Logo Ru; Too Much Stuff; Any Woman’s Blues; Blue in Green/All Blues; Blackbird; But Beautiful; .Get It Straight (Straight No Chaser); Done With That.

C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2020

by C. Michael Bailey
December 16, 2020

We are experiencing an existential fold in history, one where we do not even realize its gravity because it has been so cheapened by ourselves. The only thing that rises above all of this is art, and in particular, music. It is but grace that these artists provided us a gift we could never possibly warrant. ...

Ada Bird Wolfe, Jamieson Trotter: He & Me

by C. Michael Bailey
November 9, 2020

Ada Bird Wolfe's 2018 debut CD, Birdie (Self Produced), was one of the best recordings released that year. For Wolfe, music has been a lifetime love, even while in school and after, working in business, and writing full time. Wolfe has sojourned from the East to the West Coast, where she finally landed, set down roots ...