Jazz Articles about Joyce DiCamillo

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Joyce DiCamillo: Sunrise Lady

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

Pianist Joyce DiCamillo and her trio come out swingin’ on their fifth CD, Sunrise Lady, with a muscular reading of “The Lamp Is Low” and sustain a delightful groove throughout, thanks in part to her canny choice of repertoire and even more to the group’s close interplay after seventeen years together. With so many excellent piano–led trios competing these days for a place in the sun, what one chooses to record is sometimes as important as how the music is ...

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Joyce DiCamillo Trio: Sunrise Lady

by C. Michael Bailey
February 1, 2001

Joyce DiCamillo and her working trio wax another provocative collection of standards from over the rainbow.

Piano trio discs are nice in that the listener is treated to stripped-down, atomic versions of standards where they might see the skeleton of a classic tune. Joyce DiCamillo and her trio give airy, orchestral readings of a series of standards as different as “You And The Night And The Music" and “Moanin'". On Oliver Nelson's “Stolen Moments", DiCamillo woos the melody with block ...