Jazz Articles about Laura Dickinson

About Laura Dickinson

Album Review

Laura Dickinson: One for My Baby: To Frank Sinatra with Love

Read "One for My Baby: To Frank Sinatra with Love" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 17, 2015

Paying homage to the Chairman of the Board is never quite an easy thing to do, but vocalist Laura Dickinson takes on this challenge and delivers one of the best tributes to the crooner on her astonishing debut album One for My Baby, To Frank Sinatra with Love. Influenced by the sound early on in her life as a teenager and falling in love with Sinatra every time her parents played his music, the native Southern California songstress vowed to ...

Album Review

Laura Dickinson: One for My Baby: To Frank Sinatra with Love

Read "One for My Baby: To Frank Sinatra with Love" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 5, 2015

Invoking the name Frank Sinatra, even in adulation, always presents a challenge, as Ol' Blue Eyes is considered by many aficionados to be the best-ever interpreter of American popular song. Singer Laura Dickinson writes that she “fell in love" with Sinatra as a teen-ager and resolved then to help keep his music and that of the Great American Songbook alive. One for My Baby thus represents Dickinson's admirable attempt to breathe new life into “a select few" of the many ...