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The Falconaires, Triple Blind, Diane Marino, Monika Herzig and more

by Benjamin Boddie
March 5, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by LehCats, The Falconaires, Triple Blind, Diane Marino, Monika Herzig, Dana Legg, Sam Robinson, Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band, The Interplay Jazz Orchestra, Darren Litzie, Donald Harrison, Dave Slonaker Big Band, Bob Reynolds, Lisanne Lyons, Steven Husted, Nicole McCabe, Mitch Dalton, Anna Kolchina, Hindy Bare, Dave Stryker, Eddie Allen & Push, Gregory Groover Jr, James Fernando, John Clay, Roderick Harper, Mattias Svensson, Dave Wilson Quartet, Joel Ross, Lisa Hilton, and more.Playlist LehCats ...

Album Review

Diane Marino: Romance In The Dark

Read "Romance In The Dark" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 9, 2024

Romance in the Dark, from highly-versatile vocalist-pianist-arranger Diane Marino and a team of Nashville's top studio players, offers 10 entertaining selections. Comprised of covers of well-known standards and classic soul material (with a handful-plus being remixed and remastered from the vocalist's previously released recordings), it is a thoroughly enjoyable and, yes, romantic effort. “Out of This World" opens the session in a lush exotic atmosphere. Originally recorded by Jo Stafford and nearly a jazz standard, Marino dives ...

Album Review

Diane Marino: I Hear Music

Read "I Hear Music" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 26, 2022

"I Hear Music," from Nashville-based vocalist, pianist and arranger Diane Marino, is a twelve-track retrospective of selections--famous and not so--drawn from the Songbook, as well as being associated with such great artists as Dakota Staton, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, and others. The opener, the rarely heard “I Hear Music," is Marino's fine upbeat take on an old Burton Lane & Frank Loesser tune from a forgetable pre-WWII film, “Dancing on a Dime" (Paramount Pictures, 1940). It is ...

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Album Review

Diane Marino: On The Street Where You Live

Read "On The Street Where You Live" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 5, 2004

On her second album, singer-pianist Diane Marino presents eleven tracks of standards, jazz standards and five Brazilian-oriented selections. Her preference for the latter songs reflects her fluent Portuguese. These tunes are delivered with what sounds like a more Hispanic vocal and certainly has no affectations of American vocal versions of the same material. It would the difference between hearing Jobim being sung by Gal Costa and then by Joyce. Only “Once I Loved" is performed in English. “Toucans Dance," a ...