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Carri Coltrane: Child Inside My Heart
by Jim Santella
Carri Coltrane sings Christmas songs in a clear alto voice with careful polite articulation. Her accompaniment is traditional piano music with brief soprano saxophone interludes. Pianist Ted Brancato stays with the tried and true approaches to harmony and rhythm, appropriately leaving embellishment for the singer.
On “Away in a Manger" the trio allows melody to flow from one artist to the other. Langley works with strong piano support, while Coltrane prefers to step out on her own. The singer’s lovely ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Mixology. In higher education, once one develops the aptitude and achieves a doctorate in something like Pharmacology or Molecular Biology, that person can migrate among many disciplines, blurring the lines between these disciplines. So with the arts. Many famous painters also sculpted and worked many across periods. In music, there are those who can transcend style, thereby setting new ones. Carri Coltrane is one of the fortunate who can do this.
Several of her recent recordings have crossed my desk, ...
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