Jazz Articles about Alma Micic

Alma Micic: Tonight

by C. Michael Bailey
February 18, 2014

Vocalist Alma Micic hails from the creatively fertile Balkan area (Belgrade, Serbia) of Eastern Europe. As of late, she has been plying her trade in New York City and has struck up a very productive and creative relationship with guitarist Doug Wamble resulting in her third recording, Tonight, following The Hours (CTA Records, 2008) and Introducing Alma (CTA Records, 2004). A release every four to six years has become a norm for many artists and in the case of Micic, ...

Alma Micic: The Hours

by Michael P. Gladstone
July 21, 2008

There are no doubts about it. Alma Micic (Mee-cheech) is a first rate jazz singer. On her debut album, Introducing Alma (CTA, 2004), she opened some doors with her seductive style working the Great American Songbook. Giving no hint of what was to follow, the release of The Hours raises the bar, leaving no hesitation about where this vocalist is headed.

The Hours is far from the type of breakthrough bestseller that one might intimate. It is thematically ...

Alma Micic: Introducing Alma

by Mike Brannon
December 22, 2005

It's always a challenge to introduce a new artist, no matter how deserving or talented, without tripping over the usual litany of music journalist cliches. But jazz vocalist Alma Micic, though still young, really is the real deal in the making; self-assured both rhythmically and harmonically, she swings, has a great sense of space and time, and chooses happening material while avoiding the usual overworn vocalist cliche tunes. She also writes and even scats convincingly.

Micic is clear, confident, soulful, ...

Alma Micic: Introducing Alma

by Michael P. Gladstone
January 2, 2005

On her début recording, singer Alma Micic presents a program of ten songs from the Great American Songbook or jazz standards with one original and a traditional Montenegrin “Sejdefu Majka Budjase."

Alma Micic has a nice way with a ballad and opens with the Strayhorn/Ellington “Day Dream," then moves on to an up-tempo, non-bossa “Corcovado." She mixes more ballads like “Something to Live For" and “But Beautiful" with swingers like “Yesterdays" and “I Remember You," on which Micic ...