Jazz Articles about Angela Verbrugge

About Angela Verbrugge

Album Review

Angela Verbrugge with Ray Gallon: In The Wonder of the Night

Read "In The Wonder of the Night" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
May 30, 2026

Canadian jazz vocalist and songwriter Angela Verbrugge understands something that too many contemporary singers miss. Intimacy in jazz is not about shrinking the music but about drawing the audience in. On In The Wonder of the Night, her duet recording with acclaimed New York pianist Ray Gallon she works within the voice-and-piano format with uncommon confidence, keeping the music in constant motion. The album may carry a nocturnal and lunar thread across its eleven tracks and twelve songs, but beneath ...

Radio & Podcasts

John Gunther, Ed Partyka, The Flying Horse Big Band & Angela Verbrugge

by Joe Dimino
November 23, 2025

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 ...

Album Review

Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere

Read "Somewhere" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
November 27, 2024

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 ...

Liner Notes

Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere

by Michael Steinman
April 15, 2024

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 ...