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by Pierre Giroux
Mary Foster Conklin is a New York-based singer with an eclectic approach to the choices she makes in deciding upon a repetoire for her fifth release, These Precious Days. Unafraid to step outside the nine dots, she has focussed the project on lesser-known jazz and popular compositions by predominately female songwriters. Joining Conklin are a number of top shelf New York musicians including pianist and arranger John Di Martino, violinist Sara Caswell, bassist Ed Howard, drummer Vince Cherico, guitarist Guilherme ...
read moreMary Foster Conklin: Blues for Breakfast
by AAJ Italy Staff
La collaborazione fra il pianista John Di Martino e la cantante Mary Foster Conklin ha sempre assicurato frutti originali, con un repertorio che include anche cabaret con testi dei fratelli Marx. Questa volta i due sono su un altro genere, mettendo insieme delle canzoni scritte da Matt Dennis, alcune note altre meno, tutte però rivisitate in ottica moderna e con testi interessanti, che non avrebbero meritato l'oblio in cui sono cadute. Il CD è quindi un occasione per riscoprirle adesso. ...
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by Michael P. Gladstone
Blues For Breakfast, the third album from vocalist Mary Foster Conklin, is a tribute to the music of Matt Dennis, who died in 2002 at the age of 88. Although he was not as renowned as the members of the Great American Songbook circle (Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, et al.), Dennis did indeed contribute significantly many memorable songs, primarily during the second half of the Twentieth Century. In the liner notes, author James Gavin relates how in the ...
read moreMary Foster Conklin: Blues for Breakfast: Remembering Matt Dennis
by Jack Bowers
I don't review many albums by singers these days, but I couldn't pass up a tribute to Matt Dennis, one of the most talented and sadly neglected songwriters of the Twentieth Century. Before scoffing, remember “Angel Eyes," “Will You Still Be Mine," “Everything Happens to Me," “Violets for Your Furs," “Let's Get Away from It All," “Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World" and “The Night We Called It a Day." All were written by Dennis, who ...
read moreMary Foster Conklin: You'd Be Paradise
by Jack Bowers
Hip singer, splendid album. To elaborate — New York–based songstress Mary Foster Conklin, who obviously loves what she does, goes around the block and back to avoid the obvious on You’d Be Paradise, complementing no less than four sophisticated tunes by the inimitable Bob Dorough with one each by David Cantor (“Nirvana”), Tom Waits (“Broken Bicycles”) and Michel Legrand (“The Windmills of Your Mind”), King Pleasure’s wry commentary on Stan Getz’s opus “Don’t Get Scared,” a brace of venerable Cole ...
read moreMary Foster Conklin: Crazy Eyes
by AAJ Staff
She’s standing there on the cover, lovely black and white photograph, big smile, looking to the heavens. You know what this is; you turn it on. “You got a blue eye”, sings the sophisticate; “It’s deeper than any blue.” You know what this is. She relates that the other eye is charming – only it’s green ! You do not know what this is. And you should – in this witty album Mary Foster Conklin sings an eloquent batch of ...
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