Jazz Articles about Michael Higgins

About Michael Higgins

Album Review

A Southern California Girl with a love of standards and romantic music, Thisbe Vos is not your typical female vocalist performing Louis Prima/ Keely Smith duets in a jazz band. Born in the Netherlands, Vos began exploring music by playing the harp and doing musical theatre and only after joining the British swing band, The Jive Aces, did she begin to embrace the style of love songs, ballads and swing that are the focus of her music. Her debut album ...

Album Review

Thisbe Vos: Under Your Spell

Read "Under Your Spell" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 24, 2013

First, there is that name...Thisbe Vos. It is not merely exotic; it is something much more than that, something mythic. Dutch-born, living the dream in America's land of Milk and Honey--LA--Vos, by her looks, voice, repertoire, composing...demands attention, and gets it without ever raising her voice. Her debut, two years percolating, Under Your Spell is a fully realized throwback that doesn't sound a day over the rainbow. Made up of five standards and six smacking, swinging originals, Under Your Spell ...

Album Review

Michael Higgins: The Moon and the Lady Dancing

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 6, 2009

Il clima di questo bel The Moon and the Lady Dancing è pensoso ed elegante. L'incedere della musica è raffinato come il dipinto suggestivo che campeggia sulla copertina del CD, autoprodotto dal chitarrista americano Michael Higgins che per l'occasione si è avvalso della collaborazione artistica di due eccellenti accompagnatori, ben noti agli appassionati di jazz. Si tratta del bassista Jay Anderson e del batterista Adam Nussbaum, due veterani degli studi di registrazione, con alle spalle innumerevoli collaborazioni, anche con altri ...