Jazz Articles about Hilary Gardner

About Hilary Gardner

Album Review

Hilary Gardner: The Great City

Read "The Great City" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 12, 2015

Nel traboccante panorama delle nuove jazz singers, Hilary Gardner ha saputo emergere già con questo debutto, che spicca per la sentita adesione al jazz anni quaranta/cinquanta senza timore d'apparire demodé. La Gardner è una suadente interprete di ballads che disegna con profonda musicalità, purezza espressiva ed elegante chiarore timbrico secondo i modelli di Julie London, Peggy Lee e June Christy. È cresciuta a Wasilla -una cittadina dell'Alaska -e da qualche anno ha realizzato il sogno di lavorare ...

Album Review

Hilary Gardner: The Great City

Read "The Great City" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 17, 2014

New York City has its fair share of sobriquets--"The City That Never Sleeps," “The Big Apple," and “Gotham" are just a few that spring to mind. It's a place of joy and frustration, triumph and tragedy, hope and despair, and all that exists between the extremes. It's a microcosm of the world we know, existing not as a great city, but as the great city. Just ask vocalist Hilary Gardner, an Alaskan-turned-New Yorker who's been soaking up New York City's ...