Jazz Articles about Christine Fawson

About Christine Fawson

Album Review

Christine Fawson: It Could Happen to You

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by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2026

A trumpet player who sings or a singer who plays trumpet? Christine Fawson puts those questions to the test (again) on It Could Happen to You, the fifth recording under her leadership, playing trumpet and singing on every one of the album's 11 carefully-mined selections from the Great American Songbook. The obvious answer is that Fawson is both a trumpet player who sings and a singer who plays trumpet, which would be beside the point if she did not do ...

Album Review

Christine Fawson: Sings Jazz

Read "Sings Jazz" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 6, 2018

Christine Fawson: a singer who plays trumpet or a trumpeter who sings? Flip a coin. Fawson carries out both assignments to good effect on her new CD but, considering its title, Sings Jazz, she seems to bend toward to former. Whatever the case, this much can be affirmed: Fawson is a performer who must be seen as well as heard to be suitably appreciated, as her sunny personality can't be fully captured on an album, no matter how well-planned it ...