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John Gunther, Ed Partyka, The Flying Horse Big Band & Angela Verbrugge
by Joe Dimino
Kicking off the 933rd episode of Neon Jazz, we welcome back a familiar voice to these parts--the radiant Canadian vocalist Angela Verbrugge, a true cornerstone of today's jazz landscape. From there, we launch into a wave of fresh 2025 releases lighting up the scene, featuring brilliant new work from The Flying Horse Big Band, Dom Franks, Scott Silbert, Kevin Brown, John Gunther, and Laura Taylor. We keep the momentum rolling with bold new sounds out of Poland from Omasta, the ...
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by Katchie Cartwright
Based in Victoria, British Columbia, Angela Verbrugge keeps a busy schedule as a singer, touring in Canada and farther afield. In addition to performing, she writes songs--jazz songs, new standards--with lyrics that are engagingly personal and funny, containing the occasional acerbic twist. As a lyricist, she often speaks to the quotidian. Her texts are a perfect match for pianist Ray Gallon's boppish compositions. On “Enough's Enough" (Love for Connoisseurs, Gut String Records, 2022), she takes a sloppy lover to task ...
Continue ReadingAngela Verbrugge: Somewhere
by Michael Steinman
The proper response to Beauty is an awed admiring silence. So these liner notes should be one word in a large font: LISTEN. But Angela asked me to add a few hundred keystrokes to the project, so here we are. Incidentally, I have chosen to focus on Angela in the midst of the most superb musicians and arrangements. I hope they will forgive me! Angela Verbrugge is a great subversive. Her work is so quietly insinuating that listeners ...
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