Jazz Articles about Ada Bird Wolfe

About Ada Bird Wolfe

Album Review

There is a style of singing--midway between conversation and conventional vocal technique—which can only be called talk-singing, or something to that effect. It puts considerable weight on the meaning of the song, the words themselves, rather than the melody per se. Chances are, one could not hum such a tune if one wanted to. To some ears, Abbey Lincoln was an expert in the technique, or even more so, Nina Simone. Much of the success of the genre depends on ...

Album Review

Ada Bird Wolfe, Jamieson Trotter: He & Me

Read "He & Me" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 9, 2020

Ada Bird Wolfe's 2018 debut CD, Birdie (Self Produced), was one of the best recordings released that year. For Wolfe, music has been a lifetime love, even while in school and after, working in business, and writing full time. Wolfe has sojourned from the East to the West Coast, where she finally landed, set down roots and, in 2010, began devoting herself to singing and music full time. It was there she began to work with pianist and ...

Year in Review

C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
December 12, 2019

The number of critics writing for All About Jazz is such that there is little content overlap from one scrib to the next. This provides the reader a rich and compelling collection of opinion from which to derive guidance regarding a broad variety of music. Also contributing to All About Jazz as a resource are the varied and disparate backgrounds of the writers, each bringing something a little different from the other to the discussion. Coupled with a year plentiful ...