Jazz Articles about Judi Silvano

Judi Silvano: Women's Work: Live at Sweet Rhythm

by Michael P. Gladstone
August 12, 2007

Jazz singer Judi Silvano is the wife of tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano and she has appeared on some of his Blue Note albums, including Viva Caruso (2002), Celebrating Sinatra (1996) and Universal Language (1992), with a rather operatic vocalese style.

Silvano began recording under her own name on Blue Note with Vocalese (1996) and then with her own JSL Label which has released several albums including Songs I Wrote or Wish I Wrote (2000), Sound Garden: Spirit Music ...

Judi Silvano: Let Yourself Go

by Dan McClenaghan
October 25, 2004

Judi Silvano Let Yourself Go Zoho Music 2004

Vocalist Judi Silvano's Let Yourself Go makes me long for the day when jazz was America's popular music. If that were the case today, this disc would sell a million copies and score three or four top ten radio hits. But it's a new pop song millennium, and the jazz recordings are pushed into the back racks--the general listening public's loss; the discerning and ...

Judi Silvano: Let Yourself Go

by Jerry D'Souza
October 12, 2004

Guess it was about time. This is Judi Silvano's first album of standards, and if it need be said, these are the songs her mother loves. Well, mother Miriam has good taste and daughter Judi has the voice to give them a rich, red-blooded vein. Silvano is also blessed in having a top notch band and an arranger who knows how to filter the essence masterfully. But in the final analysis, it is the interpreter of song that stands in ...

Judi Silvano: Let Yourself Go

by Michael P. Gladstone
October 8, 2004

Singer Judi Silvano (aka Mrs. Joe Lovano) has a real winner in this release. Having only heard her on several albums with Joe Lovano in which she was singing vocalese, or on her own Songs I Wrote or Wished I Did in '00, I was totally unprepared for my first listening of this new venture. The album was conceived as tribute to Silvano's mother on her 80th birthday, who assisted in selecting the eleven standards performed here. Silvano has accrued ...

Judi Silvano/Mal Waldron: Riding a Zephyr

by Riel Lazarus
April 16, 2003

The mood at Judi Silvano's recent Birdland engagement was decidedly bittersweet. She was there to promote a new duo CD with Mal Waldron entitled Riding A Zephyr, but the legendary pianist's unexpected passing last December transformed the proceedings from what had originally been intended as a celebration of their work together into a moving tribute to Waldron's hallowed career. On the recently released CD, Silvano and Waldron team up on ten bulbous tracks, offering both artists' intrinsically ...

Mal Waldron/Judi Silvano: Riding A Zephyr

by Jerry D'Souza
December 11, 2002

During his lifetime Mal Waldron teamed with some great jazz musicians, including Billie Holiday. He was never afraid of taking chances with his music, often flying in the face of convention. He chose to express himself in modes that gave unusual shape and texture to his compositions. Those traits are in evidence here. In one of his last recordings, he finds the right complement in another singer, Judi Silvano, who gives voice to song with an assurance that delves deep ...

Judi Silvano and Mal Waldron: Riding a Zephyr

by Dan McClenaghan
November 1, 2002

She's been flirting with us, Judi Silvano has, these past few years. Her wordless vocalese on the Joe Lovano/Gunther Schuller masterpiece, Rush Hour ; and again on Joe Lovano's fine Celebrating Sinatra CD from '96; and more recently on James Emery's gorgeous and overlooked Fourth World. Great sounds, but sideperson roles; not enough of Judi Silvano.The flirtation is not by design, though. She's given us our shot at romance with three memorable CDs of her own that somehow ...