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Katie Bull: Conversations with the Jokers

Read "Conversations with the Jokers" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Female jazz vocalists are spoon-fed to the masses these days, made as accessible as possible with their approach and repertoire by, more often than not, big labels and mass marketing machines. If you ask most fans of jazz vocals, however, you'll gather there's a shortage of any memorable, or listenable, vocalists out there. Vocalists such as Sheila Jordan and Jeanne Lee brought interpretive and adventurous jazz vocals to the next level. Such flexible instruments are sorely lacking in our regurgitated ...

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Katie Bull: Conversations with the Jokers

Read "Conversations with the Jokers" reviewed by Trevor MacLaren


With the recent resurgence in female vocal jazz, a lot of competition has arisen. Katie Bull may not yet have the strongest of vocal chops, but she certainly makes up for that in the original and eclectic use of varying styles that piece together her debut, Conversations with the Jokers. Opening up with the Schertzinger/Mercer track 'I Remember You', Bull is haunted by the phrasing of post-Chick Webb Ella Fitzgerald, before taking on the groove of bossa-nova. But it's when ...


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