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Paula Cole

Paula Cole's fourth album, Courage, is about starting over. A more collaborative effort than any of her previous discs, the elegant Courage finds Cole working with a host of writers and players, and balances piano-based pop with her first true musical love: jazz. The album's title, she says, encapsulates just what she needed to pull this record off, as the disc arrives at the end of a soul-searching, and at times soul-crushing period during which she contemplated ending her music career. But in 2005, when an old acquaintance and producer Bobby Colomby (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Jaco Pastorius, The Jacksons) asked Cole to sing on several tracks on trumpeter Chris Botti's When I Fall In Love album, the joy of music began to return: "When I was singing with him, it was like music was fun again," she says

Laila Biali is taking requests

by Leo Sidran
August 2, 2023

Singer, pianist and songwriter Laila Biali recently released Your Requests (ACT Music), built around a collection of songs from the Great American Songbook that were requested by her fans. After a string of projects of her original songs and more contemporary covers, the album was a departure for her. After spending years living in ...

Antonio Hart: Educator and Monster Player

by R.J. DeLuke
August 1, 2022

The Queens Jazz Orchestra took the stage at Flushing Town Hall, a historic building in the jny: New York City borough dedicated to the arts, for an annual jazz concert celebrating the music of Charlie Parker and the career and life of Phil Schaap, a longtime Big Apple radio personality who hosted a show devoted to ...

Thornewood

By David Thorne Scott

Label: self-produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Rocky Mountain High; If I Needed You; Fall Into You; In the Still of the Night; You Are There; One For My Baby; The Dark Side; Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye; Deciding Where To Land; The Summer Knows; Grow; Rocky Mountain High (Outro)

Bessie Smith Empress of the Blues Tribute at The Cabot

by Doug Hall
December 11, 2018

Bessie-Empress of the Blues Tribute The Cabot Beverly, MA December 4, 2018 In a wonderful coincidence of timing, The Cabot, in Beverly, Ma. celebrated and honored the great and legendary blues vocalist icon, The Empress of the Blues--Bessie Smith -at the very same time the beautiful newly renovated 1920's theater venue ...

Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion: Three Rivers

by Dave Wayne
February 27, 2015

Growing up in the 1970s, I was a rabid fan of the aggressive and adventurous sounds of jazz-rock, later re-branded as “jazz fusion." I slowly lost interest as the style became mired in a sticky sea of overproduced pop moves and smooth sentiment, but held out hope for some sort of renaissance. The jam-band fad of ...

Paula Cole Joins Voice Department At Berklee College Of Music

August 28, 2013

Berklee College of Music announces that Paula Cole has joined the college's voice department. Cole, a 1990 Berklee graduate, is a Grammy winner and seven- time Grammy nominee who has sold approximately three million albums. She begins her tenure on September 1. “I like to think of what I do as a loving gesture of giving ...

Music Without Borders Presents Upcoming NYC Concerts

January 4, 2013

Music Without Borders, a music and arts consulting firm based in Stamford, CT, is pleased to announce highlights of its upcoming NYC concert calendar. MWB has long been associated with producing concert events at diverse venues such as Symphony Space, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the Beacon Theater, the 92nd Street Y, and the Rubin Museum of ...

Back To The Garden: The Artistry Of Joni Mitchell, Featuring Paula Cole And Music Directed By Terri Lyne Carrington

April 25, 2012

Berklee College of Music presents Back to the Garden: The Artistry of Joni Mitchell, a play with music and dance about the life and work of the iconic artist, written and performed by Berklee students. Back to the Garden will be performed at Berklee on May 3 with featured guest, Grammy Award-winning alumna Paula Cole, and ...

The Music of Simon & Garfunkel Celebrated at Central Park Summerstage, June 8, 2010

by Ernest Barteldes
June 16, 2010

The Music of Simon & Garfunkel Central Park Summerstage New York, NY June 8, 2010 On a balmy spring night in Central Park, Art Garfunkel took to the stage after a brief introduction by Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He gave a brief speech where he mentioned that ...