Articles by Jessica Raimi

Singing Jazz: Judy Niemack Master Class

by Jessica Raimi
November 21, 2009

"Part of the fun of jazz is like seeing someone ski down a dangerous slope. When you improvise, you have to take a chance. If you fall, you fall," Judy Niemack was telling her master class on September 26. The nine women with her, most of them professional singers, in the studio of Second Floor Music on West 28th Street in New York City, had come to study with a musician who has been called “one of the best and ...