Jazz Articles about Lisa Maxwell

About Lisa Maxwell

Album Review

Lisa Maxwell with the Keith Ingham Quartet: Happy

Read "Happy" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 15, 2011

Lisa Maxwell's debut, Return to Jazz Standards (Self Produced, 2010), was well-received when released, marking the New York singer's recovery and comeback from a vocal cord disorder that sidelined her for several years earlier in the decade. Maxwell returns with Happy, a recital of not-so-standard standards, supported by Maxwell's coach, pianist Keith Ingham, and his fine quartet. The result is an evolution in cohesiveness and vision. In a word, Maxwell's Happy is breezy. Her voice has filled ...

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Album Review

Lisa Maxwell: Return to Jazz Standards

Read "Return to Jazz Standards" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 18, 2010

Singing jazz standards will never go out of style; the songbook is too fertile, the audience too willing, and the erstwhile jazz vocalists (at least women) too plentiful. The result is a market clotted with a legion of releases where the signal-to-noise ratio is not favorable for the independent artists. But some worthy examples do rise to the surface, fed by deserved attention and fine musicality. Vocalist Lisa Maxwell fights back from the mouthful bilateral vocal fold paresis with surgery ...