Jazz Articles about Randy Ingram

About Randy Ingram

Album Review

Vocalist Stevie Holland has blazed quite a path for herself. She is fifteen years into a career that has produced seven recordings, the most recent being the present impressionistic Life Goes On. While always refined, Holland takes her refinement to a gilded level that is almost a vapor, an essence. She never overuses her perfectly balanced soprano voice, erring always on the side of sophistication and pure simplicity. Holland approaches ten Gary William Friedman-arranged standards and originals like Matisse beginning ...

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Randy Ingram: Sky/Lift

by Budd Kopman
January 7, 2015

Pianist Randy Ingram is an unabashed romantic and through Sky/Lift communicates all of the optimism, love of life and the sheer joy of making music for everyone to experience. Ingram does not hide his roots in the music of Bill Evans, but what he takes from the past master is more of an aesthetic and a musical lushness than, say, particular chord voicings, even in the Evans tune “Time Remembered." His piano playing virtually sings the ...

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Randy Ingram: The Road Ahead

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 12, 2010

A guardarlo sulla foto della cover sembra una rockstar, very cool, appena uscita da una sessione fotografica. In realtà, Randy Ingram è un giovane pianista originario di Laguna Beach, California, che sta cercando fortuna nella scena newyorkese. Con lo sguardo leggermente triste cerca di fissare un punto nell'orizzonte. Poi, il titolo del suo debutto è emblematico: “La strada davanti" e sa di film neorealistici. Gli stessi che ti lasciano l'amaro in bocca e ti danno un colpo allo stomaco. Randy ...