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Live Review

Joanna Pascale Quintet at Loews Hotel in Philadelphia

by Victor L. Schermer
August 5, 2006

Joanna Pascale Loews Hotel Philadelphia, PA August 2006

It isn't often one gets to hear a top of the line jazz vocalist at a hotel cocktail lounge and restaurant (the great Mabel Mercer comes to mind as one of those rarities), but we've lucked out. Joanna Pascale, one of the best young jazz vocalists, has landed herself a regular weekly gig at the Loews Hotel, at 12th and Market Streets right by the Pennsylvania ...

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Extended Analysis

Joanna Pascale: When Lights are Low

by Victor L. Schermer
December 5, 2004

Joanna Pascale When Lights are Low CAP 2004

The quintessential instrument of jazz, perhaps all of music, is the female voice. While jazz has many personae and “voices" (I think of John Coltrane's “preacher" inflections, Miles Davis' contemplative, moody, and earthy “speaking through the horn," Bill Evans' dreamy, complex, ethereal “muse," etc.), the female voice most fully embodies the dialectic of blues and ecstasy, the resiliency, and the inner spiritual core of the jazz ...