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Julie Kelly
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The late, respected jazz critic Leonard Feather once said of jazz singer Julie Kelly, "Julie Kelly radiates a sense of joy and spontaneity. Listening to her, you are reminded that jazz singing is still alive and well!" Feather's successor at the Los Angeles Times, the veteran critic Don Heckman, referred to Kelly as having, "one of the finest vocal jazz instruments of the '90's". Born in Oakland, California, Kelly grew up absorbing herself in gospel, blues and jazz in addition to pop and classical music. "When I was 13," she remembers, "I was listening to Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, as well as Dave Brubeck, and those wonderful albums with Miles Davis and Gil Evans
Freedom Jazz Dance
By Julie Kelly
Label: Laurelwood Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sunday in New York; Take Me to the Alley; A Ra (The Frog); Practical Arrangement; Freedom Jazz
Dance; River People; Early Morning Rain; A Otro Lado Del Rio; Nothing Like You; Funny How Time
Slips Away/Hello Like Before; Ponteio.
New Spring Releases, More Celebrations For Sarah Vaughan Plus Shoutouts To Aretha Franklin, Hiromi, Mimi Jones, Tracey Chapman & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast concludes Womens History Month with new releases from Ragan Whiteside, Kristin Korb, Nick Finzer, Abena Koomson--Davis, Julie Kelly, Lori Bell and Rachel Z, with birthday shoutouts to Karen Hammack, Aretha Franklin, Stacey Kent, Hiromi, Mimi Jones, Rachel Therrien, Sarah Vaughan (100!), Norah Jones and Tracey Chapman, among others. Thanks for listening and please support ...
Julie Kelly: Freedom Jazz Dance
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Freedom Jazz Dance from Los Angeles singer, Julie Kelly offers an interesting array of selections that emanate from that musical road less traveled. And, as in life, sometimes that road yields nuggets of delight that would most likely never make it to the tried and “true way." Peter Nero and Carroll Coates' “New ...
Abdullah Ibrahim, Julie Kelly, John Coltrane & Sean Mason
by Joe Dimino
We kick off a new 846th Episode of Neon Jazz out of Kansas City with rising keyboard talent Sean Mason and music from his 2024 release The Southern Suite. From there, we hear from an indelible influence on Sean in Ray Charles. We also hear a dandy of tunes from the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, John Korbel, ...
New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations For Dorothy Fields, Phoebe Snow & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from pannist Joy Lapps, a Carla Bley tribute by Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison & Ted Nash, the WJ3 All Stars, saxophonist Jean Fineberg, vocalist Sylvia Brooks plus a single from pianist Lauren Lee, with birthday shoutouts to Mary Osborne, lyricist Dorothy Fields, Phoebe Snow, Gayelynn McKinney, Akua Dixon, Lauren Sevian and ...
New Releases from Rhoda Scott, Cecilia Sanchietti Plus Remembering Lyricist Marilyn Bergman
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from organist Rhoda Scott, drummer Cecilia Sanchietti, guitarist Dave Stryker, vocalists Cecil L. Recchia, Christiane Karam, and the Roddy Ellias Free Spirit Ensemble, as well as songs with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, in honor of her recent passing. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by ...
Women Be Wise - Celebrating Sippie Wallace, Allison Miller and More Jazz Scorpios
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast continues our celebration of Jazz Scorpios with birthday shoutouts to drummer Allison Miller, guitarist Amanda Monaco, pianist Andy Bey, vocalists Julie Kelly, Kristen Korb, Ethel Waters, Carmen Lundy and Sippie Wallace, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown.
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
by Mary Foster Conklin
This early November broadcast includes new releases from vocalists Andrea Superstein, Marsha Bartenetti, Ben Sidran and pianist Julia Hulsmann with birthday shout outs to guitarist Amanda Monaco, trumpeter Clifford Brown, pianist Dawn Clement, plus vocalists Ethel Waters, Andy Bey, Jay Clayton, Carmen Lundy, Kurt Elling, K.D. Lang, Julie Kelly and Sarah Partridge, among others.
Producer Barbara Brighton Awarded Jazz Hero 2019 By Jazz Journalists Association
In a ceremony taking place on Friday, May 3, 2019 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA) Friday Night Jazz Series, Barbara Brighton will be presented with the Jazz Hero Award, given by the Jazz Journalists Association and presented by jazz journalist Kirk Silsbee and 2016 Jazz Hero Edythe Bronston. Barbara Brighton’s lifelong love ...
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