Jazz Articles about Andréa Wood

About Andréa Wood

Album Review

Andréa Wood presents her second album as a leader with, Kaleidoscope. Devotees and newcomers alike should feel equally welcome when listening to Kaleidoscope. Wood has done an excellent job of compiling a twelve song program that is accessible in the deep history of jazz along with her well-crafted originals. The discerning aficionado will find Wood's vocal control and sense of rhythm deeply studied in the tradition, while the neophyte with easily relate to Wood's strong sense of groove and story ...

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Andrea Wood: dhyana

Read "dhyana" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 13, 2011

Washington D.C. native Andrea Wood has assimilated the area's disparate musical styles. Properly trained, Wood exerts impressive creative control over her material, one that is not afraid to take chances. Her alto is both powerful and pliable, capable of Betty Carter-like flights of fancy, and dhyana is a collision of every tradition between here and the Old World. But from this multicultural miasma rises the Rodgers and Hart standard “My Favorite Things," presented in a way that ...