Jazz Articles about Nicole Zuraitis

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Radio & Podcasts

Four new albums from Goldings, Bernstein & Stewart; Nicole Zuraitis; Joey Amexander and Steve Wilson

by George Graham
July 21, 2026

George Graham spotlights four new jazz releases from Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein / Bill Stewart . Also Nicole Zuraitis , Joey Alexander and Steve Wilson.Playlist Goldings, Bernstein & Stewart “Hi-Fly" from Rhombus (Smoke Sessions) 7:00 Goldings, Bernstein & Stewart “They Say It's Wonderful" from Rhombus (Smoke Sessions) 6:31 Nicole Zuraitis “I Won't Make It Out Alive" from The Devil I Knew (La Reserve) 4:24 Nicole Zuraitis “Two Steps Back (The Overlap)" from The Devil I Knew (La ...

Album Review

The Birdland Big Band: Storybook—The Music Of Mark Miller

Read "Storybook—The Music Of Mark Miller" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell
June 3, 2026

Storybook: The Music Of Mark Miller is at one level the unfolding narrative of its 10 musical selections. At another, it is a tale about its primary author, Mark Miller, who prefaced his journey from Racine to New York City with a preliminary solo album, Mark Miller: The Return Of Slide Huxtable, before retaking the long road that is a serious jazz player's dream of making it in the Big Apple. But most of all, this new album is a ...

Album Review

Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan

Read "Jackson Plays Dylan" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2026

On Jackson Plays Dylan, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, an admirer of Bob Dylan, aims his jazz arsenal toward the iconic singer and songwriter in hopes of reworking Dylan's folk/pop music into a framework that jazz enthusiasts might consider creative and pleasing. So how does that play? For the most part, rather tediously, which is surely not what Jackson's quartet had in mind. As it turns out, Dylan's themes sans lyrics do not lend themselves readily to the jazz ...

Live Review

Nicole Zuraitis Quartet in Vilnius: Precision Without Excess

by Ieva Pakalniškytė
April 30, 2026

Nicole Zuraitis Quartet LVSO Concert Hall Vilnius, Lithuania April 18, 2026 Vilnius has a unique way of welcoming artists who are connected to its culture. When Nicole Zuraitis, a two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, pianist, composer, and producer with Lithuanian roots, took the stage at the sold-out LVSO Concert Hall, that connection remained understated and functioned more as context than as a narrative. A symphonic setting, designed for classical music, does not always lend itself to ...

Album Review

Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan

Read "Jackson Plays Dylan" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
April 29, 2026

Bob Dylan without the lyric? Javon Jackson's Jackson Plays Dylan makes a strong case. With two exquisite exceptions, the arrangements are purely instrumental, but Jackson manages to draw us in past the words (he knows we can hear most of them in our heads) to the emotional heart of each piece. More than that, he turns the program into a sort of film score. Each song (scene) dissolves into the next via a snippet of its intro. Starting ...

Album Review

Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan

Read "Jackson Plays Dylan" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
March 27, 2026

With Jackson Plays Dylan, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson delves into one of the great sources of modern song, the work of Bob Dylan. He treats it with reverence, imagination, and a strong respect for jazz tradition. This is not a clever concept album but a heartfelt musician's dialogue with timeless material, influenced by tradition and deep musical listening. Jackson is joined on this release by pianist and keyboardist Jeremy Manasia, bassist Isaac Levien, drummer Ryan Sands, and Grammy-winning guest vocalists ...

Interview

Nicole Zuraitis: The Up and Down and Up Journey to Newport

by Mark Robbins
April 29, 2025

Nicole Zuraitis should receive a Grammy Award just for her laugh! It's deep, loud, energetic and a treat to hear. Not taking herself too seriously, her conversation is peppered with laughter while she talks about the high and lows of her travels from a struggling young jazz vocalist/composer to her surprising (to her) Grammy win. Her career started as a young jazz singer with a community college big band and at the Litchfield Jazz Camp. She performed opera for a ...