Jazz Articles about Becca Stevens

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Becca Stevens at the Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
October 17, 2025

Becca Stevens Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA October 14, 2025 What happens when a songwriter transforms an intimate space into a map and invites us to follow her route? That was the guiding question of Becca Stevens' early set at the Joe Henderson Lab, where voice and guitar became coordinates, and each song represented a mile of lived experience. The premise was straightforward: Maple to Paper (GroundUP Music, 2024), her 2024 voice-and-guitar cycle, and ...

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Threading Folk and Jazz: Becca Stevens’ Quiet Fire

by Steven Roby
September 30, 2025

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Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble: What to Wear in the Dark

by C. Michael Bailey
October 22, 2021

Being taken for granted is the greatest tribute and worst slight to any artist. Kate McGarry has made music that brilliantly colors outside the lines since her release, Show Me (Palmetto Records) in 2003 (there was a 1992 standards release, Easy To Love (Vital Records) that is out-of-print). Her career has provided five provocatively thoughtful and inventive recordings between that release and 2018's The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown Records). Listeners have come to expect something a little different from ...

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Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble: What to Wear in the Dark

by Dan McClenaghan
October 19, 2021

Let us start with a nod to Steely Dan, the rock/jazz group headed up by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a pair of tunesmiths who hit a career zenith in the early 1970s with albums like Can't Buy A Thrill (1972), Countdown To Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974) and Aja (1974), all on ABC Records. The group drew in top jazz artists to help craft their albums—saxophonists Wayne Shorter and Tom Scott, guitarists Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour, drummers Steve ...

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Becca Stevens

by Joseph Vella
April 23, 2021

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Thana Alexa: ONA

by Angelo Leonardi
April 15, 2021

Ci giunge con un po' di ritardo questo secondo disco della talentuosa vocalist e compositrice Thana Alexa, ma va assolutamente considerato. Anche questo, come già il debutto Ode to Heroes, è un tributo: dalle figure musicali che l'hanno influenzata siamo passati a una celebrazione del genere femminile e al ruolo—spesso sottovalutato—che svolgono nel mondo. Nata a New York da famiglia croata, Thana è tornata nell'infanzia in Croazia dov'è rimasta per completare i suoi studi. Successivamente si è ...

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Steve Haines and The Third Floor Orchestra: Steve Haines and The Third Floor Orchestra

by Angelo Leonardi
April 7, 2021

Dare al lettore—nel breve spazio di una recensione—l'idea del contenuto e del valore (in un giudizio ovviamente soggettivo) di un album spinge a usare tutte quelle classificazioni nate per orientarci. In poche parole, creare delle mappe è utile ma se il territorio è ricco di elementi diversi si rischia di usare etichette fuorvianti. L'ascolto di questo disco orchestrale di Steve Haines spinge a queste considerazioni per il suo collocarsi tra differenti universi musicali (folk, classica, jazz, canzone ...