Results for "Alexa Barchini"

Alexa Barchini

Voices

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: The One I Love(Belongs to Somebody Else); All of Me; Social Call; Summertime; You Turned the Tables on Me; What a Difference a Day Made; Blame It on My Youth; Born to Be Blue; So Many Stars; All or Nothing at All; I'm Just a Lucky So-and-so.

Hiding Place

Label: Mini Movie Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Hiding Place; Junk; Tea in the Sahara; The Best of My Love; Two of Us; Harvest; 3420.

Mark Murphy, Folk Artist: Hiding Place

by C. Michael Bailey
August 5, 2020

Mark Murphy's 2018 release Pocketful of Rainbows (Self Produced, 2018) was a surprise stand-out recording that year. Now, this Mark Murphy is not that Mark Murphy (1932 -2015), icon of jazz vocals. This Mark Murphy is a singer/songwriter whose 2016 release, Slip Away (Mini Movie) scored points for one of Downbeat Magazine's recordings of that year. ...

Peter Nelson: Ash, Dust, and the Chalkboard Cinema

by Neri Pollastri
February 5, 2020

Questo disco del trombonista Peter Nelson è assai particolare sia nella struttura, sia nelle ispirazioni extramusicali che hanno portato alla sua realizzazione. Nelson, originario del Michigan ove ha iniziato a cimentarsi sul trombone fin da bambino raggiungendo ottimi risultati, si è trasferito a New York, dove tuttora vive, nel 2013, e lì si è rapidamente imposto ...

Julian Shore: Which Way Now?

by Dan Bilawsky
January 15, 2016

If the jazz world decided to elect a single questioning phrase to sum up its craft, this album title would be a great candidate. With three words and a single punctuation mark, the very heart of jazz--a music of infinite decision(s), not indecision, as some may (mis)read that--is laid out for all to see. Those who ...

U Suite U

By Paul Giess

Label: Self Released
Released: 2015

Joanna Pascale: To Tell a Story in Song

by Victor L. Schermer
May 20, 2015

Among jazz vocalists, there are two main categories: those who belt out a tune with flourish, ornamentation, punctuation, and improvising known as “scat." Ella Fitzgerald is the prime representative of that approach. Then there are those who omit the superfluous, carefully crafting every word and note, bringing out the underlying emotions. Think of Billie Holiday. Joanna ...

Vocalist Alexa Barchini In Center City On Wednesday March 12th

February 26, 2014

The Jazz Bridge Second Wednesdays Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, 2110 Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia, presents vocalist Alexa Barchini on Wednesday, March 12. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 215-517-8337 or visit Jazz Bridge. Vocalist/composer/lyricist Alexa ...

Julian Shore: Filaments

by Dave Wayne
June 2, 2013

There is nothing wrong with mellow jazz. As long as distance can be maintained from the hackneyed, dialed-in feel of smooth jazz, it can be a refreshing change of pace from the intensity and analytical focus of a lot of modern art music, jazz or otherwise. Listening to pianist Julian Shore's Filaments, there's the sense that ...