Jazz Articles about Lucy Wijnands

About Lucy Wijnands

Album Review

Various Artists: Swinging In The Holidays

Read "Swinging In The Holidays" reviewed by Jim Trageser

by Jim Trageser
December 12, 2025

With a warm, wood-paneled vintage glow, a new Christmas collection inhabits the space formerly reserved for top-flight crooners like Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett: blending pop and jazz into comfort food for your ears. While few of the “next-gen" (as the album's publicity tag puts it) performers here will be known to those unfamiliar with the contemporary New York City scene, their chops are undeniable and the arrangements flattering to the performers' strengths.

Rising Stars

Meet Vocalist Lucy Wijnands

by Sanford Josephson
June 1, 2021

Contestants in the fourth annual Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition, sponsored by the Blues Alley Jazz Society, were asked to sing three selections from the 1964 Verve album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book. That request, said Lucy Wijnands, the winner, was “a gift from heaven. Johnny Mercer is absolutely my favorite composer." Her three Mercer selections were: “Too Marvelous For Words," “Laura," and “Dearly Beloved." The latter song was not on the album, but Harry ...