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Bill Warfield and the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra: Smile
by Jack Bowers
Having no idea what to expect from an ensemble labeled the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra, the game plan must be to advance with caution, as any orchestra with trumpeter Bill Warfield at the helm can't be all bad. After listening, it becomes clear that the game plan was sound and the premise accurate: Smile, the HKFO's second recording, isn't all bad. The question is: did Warfield and the orchestra have its own game plan? If snatching every ingredient within reach ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Il secondo disco della cantante americana Jane Stuart la conferma come un talento molto interessante ed in continua maturazione artistica. Lo swing del brano di apertura “Just Found Out About Love" è coinvolgente e quando la Stuart si stacca da questo modello, ad esempio con i ritmi brasiliani di “Bird of Beauty" (brano composto da Stevie Wonder e da lei rivisto in modo originale) o con le atmosfere beatlesiane di “Eleanor Rigby" e “I'll Follow the Sun," dimostra comunque di ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
From the opening bars of “I Just Found Out About Love," Jane Stuart takes control of this sophisticated collection of tunes with a voice that oozes style, confidence and emotional strength. Don't Look Back brings Stuart together with an empathic group of musicians, the arrangements are always interesting and at times inspired, and the conclusion is clear: this is a great vocal jazz album. Stuart has a long history as a dancer, actor and singer--she was performing ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
Jane Stuart is as complete a jazz singer as they come. With the timing of a tap dancer, the emotive responsiveness of a stage performer, a voice for the ages, and the experience to put it all together into one unified whole, Stuart deserves more exposure than she currently gets. To her credit, Stuart is able to bring all of these different elements into her performances due, in large part, to her vast experience in every one of these areas. ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Può darsi che chi legge abbia già ascoltato la suadente voce di Jane Stuart cantare jingle pubblicitari o l'abbia vista interpretare Joan Baez in Long Time Comin’ a Long Time Gone insieme a Richard Gere. O che l'abbia incontrata in uno dei tanti club di New York interpretare degli standard famosi. Per la sua uscita su disco ha scelto la strada dell'autoproduzione, niente di nuovo fra le cantanti della sua generazione. Si presenta con un trio guidato dal pianoforte e ...
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by Michael P. Gladstone
Jazz vocalist Jane Stuart's debut, Beginning to See the Light, could be a big success for unexpected reasons. The thirteen tracks are presented in a bright manner by a singer who knows how to swing them properly. This album could potentially attract a non-jazz audience: about half of the material consists of fairly well-known standards from the Great American Songbook like the title tune by Ellington and Strayhorn, Mercer/Arlen's “Out of this World," Rodgers/Hammerstein's “Getting to Know You," and the ...
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