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Anaïs Reno: Lady of the Lavender Mist
by Pierre Giroux
Anaïs Reno continues to strengthen her reputation among the top young interpreters of the Great American Songbook with her album Lady of the Lavender Mist. Four years after her debut, Reno returns with greater vocal maturity, deeper interpretive insights, and support from a seasoned rhythm section featuring guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist David Wong and drummer Joe Farnsworth. This ensemble grounds the project in classic jazz values while allowing her plenty of space to shine as she performs a set of ...
Continue ReadingAnais Reno and the Dylan Band Quintet at Chris’ Jazz Cafe
by Victor L. Schermer
Anais Reno and the Dylan Band Quintet Featuring the Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA June 24, 2023 At 19, Anais Reno is one of the finest emerging jazz vocalists amid a hefty scene of great young singers. And her repeated engagements at Chris' Jazz Café show that she has a strong fan base in Philadelphia. Hence there is no need to say how competent and ...
Continue ReadingMeet Vocalist Anais Reno
by Sanford Josephson
When she was eight years old, Anais Reno (now 18) began taking voice lessons from singer/songwriter Sarah Tolar. “I feel very grateful to her," Reno said, “because after a couple of months of working together, she sensed that maybe some older American Songbook music would be good for me. So, she started to give me songs from that repertoire, and it very quickly became my favorite music to do." Reno and Tolar met for lessons for nearly 10 ...
Continue ReadingFrank Sinatra, Branford Marsalis & Anaïs Reno
by Joe Dimino
Representing the youth movement in jazz in 2021 we kick off the 716th Episode of Neon Jazz with vocalist Anaïs Reno's “Daydream." She is followed by her hero Frank Sinatra and good line-up of jazz. It picks up with guitarist Dan Wilson, vocalist Bill Kwan and German Pianist Kilian Kemmer. We also hear the pipes of a talented LA-based singer Mara Kaye and tie it all together with a song from the saxophonist Branford Marsalis. Dig this new episode.
Continue ReadingAnaïs Reno: Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen
by Richard J Salvucci
The first time someone told me that Billy Strayhorn was a teenager when he wrote “Lush Life," I didn't believe it. Not so much because of the harmonic gymnastics, which were daunting enough, but because of the lyrics. “Romance is mush stifling those who strive, I'll live out a lush life in some small dive." No, someone had to have lived quite a bit to write something like that. No-one at eighteen could know that, so I thought, because I ...
Continue ReadingAnaïs Reno: Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen
by Pierre Giroux
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were collaborators for several decades beginning in the late 1930s. They became so closely intertwined musically that it was frequently impossible to distinguish their work. Anaïs Reno a young and promising singer has chosen to use their compositions as the basis for her debut release Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno Sings Ellington & Strayhorn. This choice was not without risk as the harmonic structure and lyrics of some of the compositions are better suited to a ...
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