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Rah! Rah!: Claire Daly's Tribute to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Other New Releases

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 12, 2020

A bounty of new releases this week from saxophonist Claire Daly, harmonicist Hermine Deurloo, Thelonious Monk (newly discovered live performance), the Mike Melito Dino Losito Quartet, plus vocalists Simone Kopmajer, Sandra Marlowe and Sarah Moule, along with birthday shoutouts to Norma Winstone, Rebecca Kilgore, Lara Driscoll, Isabel Crespo, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown. Playlist Mike Melito Dino Losito ...

Album Review

Claire Daly: 2468 West Grand Boulevard

Read "2468 West Grand Boulevard" reviewed by Rob Rosenblum

by Rob Rosenblum
December 27, 2016

Full disclosure--I am far from an expert on Motown music, having pretty much lived in a jazz bubble. And this album is a salute to some of Detroit's legends including The Jackson Five, The Four Tops, The Temptations and especially Smokey Robinson, who is identified with five of the eleven songs here. Claire Daly is a welcome addition to the very small coterie of baritone saxophone specialists. While she doubles occasionally on flute, it is with the big ...

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Interview

Claire Daly: The Most Jazz Life I Could Ever Imagine

by Andrea Wolper
January 10, 2012

December 22, 1935. “I am going up the Taku River by dogteam to Fairbanks." “But you can't do that; there are mountains or something you can't get over. Anyway, it's no place for a woman." Thus man disposes of woman. That settled I went quietly about my business of getting ready.Thus begins the journal of Mary Joyce, a native of Wisconsin living near Juneau. Invited to the March 1936 Fairbanks Ice Carnival, she spent the winter months traveling ...

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Claire Daly Quintet: Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose

Read "Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 13, 2011

La storia di Mary Joyce è di quelle che sembrano fatte apposta per appassionare e per diventare la trama ideale di un film. Cresciuta nel Wisconsin, breve esperienza a Hollywood negli anni venti poi la decisione di trasferirsi in Alaska in un lodge solitario. Qui inizia la sua vita leggendaria tra avventure e sfide ritenute impossibili, su tutte il viaggio di mille miglia che nell'arco di tre mesi portò Mary Joyce a cavallo di una slitta trainata da cani da ...

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Album Review

Claire Daly: Mary Joyce Project: Nothing To Lose

Read "Mary Joyce Project: Nothing To Lose" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 30, 2011

Saxophonist Claire Daly has always been a true original and, as it turns out, part of that is in her DNA. Mary Joyce Project: Nothing To Lose is a musical/genealogical journey through the life of Daly's father's first cousin, Mary Joyce, who lived her life the way she wanted to, rather than succumbing to societal expectations for women during the '30s and beyond. As the press materials note, “She satisfied a restless and courageous spirit with a wide range of ...

Album Review

Claire Daly: Heaven Help Us All

Read "Heaven Help Us All" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 9, 2006

Attiva professionalmente dalla metà degli anni ottanta, Claire Daly rappresenta l'ennesima dimostrazione che anche nel jazz non c'è settore dove l'"altra metà del cielo" non sappia ben figurare. Il suo strumento è il sax baritono, che Claire suona con vigore ed eleganza, sostenuta da un ricco groove. Il suo fraseggio esprime linee melodiche sempre lineari, il timbro ha un bel tratto scuro che ricorda Leo Parker e Ronnie Cuber. Diplomata al Berklee College, Claire Daly ha una lunga e diversificata ...

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Album Review

Claire Daly: Heaven Help Us All

Read "Heaven Help Us All" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
February 20, 2005

An artist's mood as he or she goes into the studio can shape the music in ways usually not shared with listeners. Rarely do we get to know what's going on in the mind or heart. But Daly lays it all out there on her newest recording with her quartet Solar and guests Warren Smith, Kirpal Gordon and Napoleon Maddox. The baritone saxophonist has been giving considerable thought this new millennium to the roles of good and evil, ...