Jazz Articles about Fay Victor

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Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor: Kaiso Stories

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 4, 2011

Merita di essere raccontata la genesi di Kaiso Stories. Siamo nel 2008 e Lars-Olof Gustavsson, cuore e cervello della Silkheart, rimane folgorato da Fay Victor, ascoltata per caso in un ristorante italiano di Manhattan. È lei la cantante che stava cercando per il primo disco con voce dell'etichetta svedese, un sogno che cullava da tempo ma che non era ancora riuscito a realizzare. Fine della storia? Manco per idea. Perché Gustavsson non si accontenta di una collaborazione: vuole qualcosa che ...

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Fay Victor At The Local 269 in New York

by AAJ Staff
September 11, 2010

Fay VictorThe Local 269New York, NYSeptember 6, 2010 New York jazz and avant-garde/free vocalist Fay Victor performed two sets with a new jazz ensemble at The Local 269 on September 6, 2010. The Local 269 is a jazz and rock club/bar on East Houston Street, on New York's Lower East Side. It has been open for a year or so and has hosted a stream of progressive music. The Local 269 ...

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Fay Victor Ensemble: The Freesong Suite

by John Kelman
November 21, 2009

It's a tough time to be a singer. With an excessive plethora of vocalists mining the Great American Songbook ad nauseum, or trying their hands at songwriting with less than distinctive results, it's harder than ever to be heard. Even once-innovative singers like Cassandra Wilson--now a Grammy Award-winning “star"--have deserted experimentation, resting instead on their not inconsiderable laurels in pursuit of consistent record sales, but losing the edge that got them where they are in the first place. ...

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Fay Victor: The Freesong Suite

by Wilbur MacKenzie
October 13, 2009

Vocalist Fay Victor first appeared in the New York scene in the early '90s but soon moved to the Netherlands, returning in 2003. Victor's years abroad proved to be quite influential on her work, with a slightly Dutch aesthetic informing a quirky blend of absurdism, poetic lyricism and blues-influenced jazz styling. On The Freesong Suite, rather than presenting each tune on its own, the works are collaged together amidst an ongoing collective improvisation. Room 1407 starts things ...

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Fay Victor: The Freesong Suite

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 23, 2009

La cantante americana Fay Victor si conferma con questo eccellente The Freesong Suite, come una delle voci più interessanti emerse negli ultimi anni nel panorama internazionale della vocalità jazz. Il suo approccio è multiforme, tiene conto del blues e del free-jazz, non disdegna riferimenti che occhieggiano al rock e alla tradizione del canto jazz. Ma riesce sempre magicamente ad essere se stessa e a proporre una musica che guarda in avanti mischiando sapientemente elementi tratti dal passato e dal presente. ...

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Fay Victor Ensemble: Cartwheels Through the Cosmos

by John Kelman
March 26, 2007

Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving. “Leap of Faith," the opening track on Fay Victor's Cartwheels Through the Cosmos, bursts out of the speakers, suggestion a hard-edged album filled with relentless energy when that's only part of the equation. The beauty of Victor, who's the absolute antithesis of polite vocal jazz, is her blending of soulful delivery with avant-garde tactics. Cartwheels Through the Cosmos is that rarity amongst contemporary vocal jazz releases: an album that doesn't rely on a tired ...

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Fay Victor Ensemble: Cartwheels Through the Cosmos

by Jerry D'Souza
January 9, 2007

Fay Victor marks an impressive presence on Cartwheels Through the Cosmos as she comes up with an arresting amalgam of songs. Victor neither caters to the norm nor does she slot herself. Instead, she soars free and often beautifully as her phrasing finds a comfort zone in jazz harmony. Her sense of improvisation is another asset; she can take a song and turn it around on different rhythmic landscapes.

Victor is now a presence in New York, but she had ...