Jazz Articles about Diane Hubka

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Diane Hubka: Look No Further

by Dave Nathan
July 1, 2000

This is Washington, D.C. based Diane Hubka's second album for A-Records, a subsidiary of The Netherlands label, Challenge Records. Like her first, she stays avoids standard material. Instead the play list is dominated by what most would call “off-beat" songs. Whatever, these tunes do not receive much recording attention even though many are the product by well know writers like Richard Rodgers, Jule Styne and Herbie Hancock.Filling a CD with this kind of material can be a risky ...

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Diane Hubka: Haven't We Met?

by Joel Roberts
September 1, 1998

New York vocalist Diane Hubka makes an impressive debut with this new release on the Dutch A-Records label. Hubka is an intelligent, self-assured singer with a light, gentle, (dare I say) sweet voice that strongly recalls the great Helen Merrill. She delivers a quiet, unhurried set of jazz for grown-ups here--mostly ballads and standards with some blues and bossa nova mixed in.

Hubka is joined by some pretty heavy and sympathetic company including Harvie Swartz on bass, John Hart on ...