Jazz Articles about Pamela Hines

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Pamela Hines Trio: Return

by Dan McClenaghan
January 17, 2008

You could call Pamela Hines a mainstream pianist, but that word “mainstream" suggests a limiting category and might draw a rather static map and restrict your expectations. What's the old rule of semantics? The map is not the territory. Or how about: the category is not the sound.While Hines, on this (mostly) trio outing, fits into the mainstream category, she freshens up the approach and makes it sound as vital and boundary-stretching today as Bill Evans did throughout ...

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The Pamela Hines Trio: Drop 2

by Jim Santella
December 19, 2006

In the straight-ahead tradition of acoustic jazz, Pamela Hines leads this lovely session of standards and originals with an appealing, refreshing charm. She takes a familiar melody, removes its standard interface, and comes up with a new approach.

Familiar themes are surrounded with an exciting fanfare that includes extensive soloing from bass and drums. Bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Guilotti add an expressive ambience that complements the pianist's persuasive flair. Her theme this time out places its ...

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The Pamela Hines Trio: Drop 2

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 12, 2006

The sixth album from Boston-based pianist Pamela Hines, Drop 2, is a solid piano trio session with two originals voiced by singer April Hall. Pamela Hines is a 1998 graduate from the New England Conservatory with a masters in music. In addition to her previous recordings, Hines was also featured on Marian McPartland's NPR Piano Jazz series in 2000. While her previous albums have included horns, this new effort is essentially a piano trio project.

Hines begins the album with ...

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The Pamela Hines Trio: Drop 2

by Dan McClenaghan
November 1, 2006

Beatles tunes are showing up fairly often on jazz discs these days. On The Fred Hersch Trio + 2 (Palmetto, 2004), the pianist/leader included an early Fab Four hit, “And I Love Her"; Brad Mehldau's Day is Done (Nonesuch, 2005) immersed his trio in “Martha My Dear" and “She's Leaving Home."And now Boston-based pianist Pamela Hines opens Drop 2 with a seven-plus minute take on “I Will," a lovely McCartney ballad. In hindsight, the tune seems a bit ...

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April Hall with the Pamela Hines Trio: Hall Sings Hines

by Jerry D'Souza
December 13, 2005

Pamela Hines and April Hall continue their collaboration with a full album of tunes that Hines composed. The last time around, Hall was a guest vocalist on Twilight World. On the present effort, the tunes cross different streams and Hall gets in to them with compact ease. Her voice is supple and she uses phrasing to bring out the emotional strength of the lyrics.

Hines has a free-flowing gait as a pianist. Her ideas are relevant and they ...

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Pamela Hines: Hall Sings Hines

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
October 23, 2005

Feminine sensitivity, creativity and a strong desire to enjoy playing jazz is felt in the newly released album by Pamela Hines. She is a musician, raised in Boston, who studied with George Russell and obtained a Masters degree in music from the New England Conservatory. The dancing fingers of this pianist have a mixture of experience and freshness that is not common this days. Bebop, Latin rhythms, ballads, and the blues mix harmonically in this work composed ...

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April Hall with the Pamela Hines Trio: Hall Sings Hines

by Dan McClenaghan
October 15, 2005

A teaming of talented ladies brings us Hall Sings Hines. The combination of vocalist April Hall and pianist Pamela Hines, who wrote all the tunes, seems a perfect fit, like Tony Bennett's work with the Ralph Sharon Trio for the past several years.If the music that Hall and Hines make represents an extension of their personalities, they both must be people possessed of an uplifting panache, a dash of style. “I Go for You" opens the set with ...