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Dominique Eade with the John Toomey Trio at the Attucks Jazz Club
by Mark Robbins
Dominique Eade has been teaching at The New England Conservatory for over 30 years. Her students have included Roberta Gambarini, Michael Mayo and Aoife O'Donovan. Well known in jazz circles for her scatting, improvising, delivery, Eade is neither showy nor pretentious. She is more concerned with the music and the story than with the small vocal rough spots that may pop up occasionally. No vibrato, no stretching out a simple word into six syllables, she presents the composition in a ...
read moreJazz From Movie and TV Music
by Jerome Wilson
This show features jazz versions of movie and television music, both soundtrack themes and songs that originated in movies. Musicians heard on the show include Dominique Eade, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Bing Crosby, Marty Krystall, and Eri Yamamoto. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Chien Chien Lu Mo' Better Blues" from The Path (Self-Produced) 1:03 Marty Krystall Quartet Theme ...
read moreDominique Eade: Town and Country
by Angelo Leonardi
A sei anni dall'incisione di Whirpool (Jazz Project, 2012), Ran Blake e Dominique Eade ripropongolo la loro esplorazione piano/voce privilegiando l'attenzione dal Great American Songbook ai canti della tradizione popolare e di denuncia sociale. Com'è noto l'83enne Ran Blake è un decano del New England Conservatory di Boston, dove fondò con Gunther Schuller il Third Sream Department. Sua lontana allieva alla fine degli anni settanta, Dominique Eade è da tempo docente nella stessa università e condivide con Ran Blake l'intransigente ...
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by Jerome Wilson
Pianist Ran Blake has a long track record of collaborations with vocalists starting over 50 years ago when he made the album The Newest Sound Around with Jeanne Lee and continuing in the years since in recordings with Chris Connor, Christine Correa and Sara Serpa among others. This is his second meeting on disc with his fellow instructor at the New England Conservatory, Dominique Eade. The first, Whirlpool, fit snugly in with Blake's prominent film noir interests. This remarkable new ...
read moreDominique Eade & Jed Wilson: Open
by Jim Santella
The jazz duo allows a vocalist to communicate with her audience more completely than any other format, since you get the pure essence of her voice along with just enough accompaniment to matter. This works quite well with a talented singer such as Dominique Eade, one of the best that jazz has to offer. She's sincere in her approach to this program, making the most of every phrase. Her superb vocal flexibility shows up on each track as she reaches ...
read moreDominique Eade + Jed Wilson: Open
by Michael P. Gladstone
If you were to ask a group of emerging jazz vocalists in New York who they were influenced or taught by, a surprising number would mention Mark Murphy or Dominique Eade. Certainly, Murphy's long career and many awards do not make him a surprise choice, but what of Dominique Eade?
As the child of an Air Force officer father and a Swiss mother, Eade spent her youth in Europe living on different military posts. In high school, her ...
read moreDominique Eade on Mountain Stage
by Ken Dryden
One of the most intriguing singers to emerge on the jazz scene during the 1990s was Dominique Eade, a gifted, chance-taking alto with a very expressive voice. Her considerable abilities as a composer and arranger, and her desire to seek deserving but less frequently performed songs, along with surrounding herself with top-flight musicians add to her appeal.
Eade has made only four CDs as a leader, two for Accurate and two for RCA, all of which seem to ...
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