Jazz Articles about Miss Justine

Miss Justine: Jazz Appreciation Month Event at Bob and Barbara’s Lounge

by Victor L. Schermer
May 5, 2023

Miss Justine Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project and the Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy Bob and Barbara's Lounge Philadelphia, PA April 23, 2023 Vocalist Miss Justine (full name Justine Keeys) is a Philadelphia phenomenon. She has a unique mastery of the jazz idiom, faithful to both the letter and the expressive meaning of the music. Justine has an intuitive sense of phrasing, timing, and dynamics that ...

Miss Justine: The Many Moods of a Philly Jazz Treasure

by Victor L. Schermer
August 4, 2005

Jazz vocalist Miss Justine (Justine Keeys) is a Philadelphia phenomenon. I first heard her sing several years ago, and was blown away by her unique mastery of the jazz idiom, so completely faithful to the music that it seems to run through her rather than be “performed in any artificial sense of that term. Thus, Justine is a “natural in several respects. For one thing, she has the “gift---the intuitive sense of phrasing, timing, and dynamics that is never forced, ...

Miss Justine: The Many Moods of Miss Justine

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 3, 2005

Justine Keeys is a Philadelphia-based jazz singer whose second recording, a septet outing, features highly regarded Philly saxman Larry McKenna. The album is so titled due to the singer's wish to mix the instrumentation throughout, presenting voice with piano and bass, or adding drums, or adding sax and/or trumpet.

She presents thirteen well-chosen songs (albeit not in the order listed on the jacket) that consist of some well-selected standards as well as some obscure and interesting alternatives. The ...