Jazz Articles about Retta Christie

About Retta Christie

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Retta Christie with David Evans and David Frishberg: Volumes 1 and 2

by C. Michael Bailey
August 6, 2010

Vocalist Retta Christie exists at the curious intersection of country & western, swing and film music. Country music and jazz may seem strange bedfellows, but bedfellows they have been since the 1920s and bandleaders Spade Cooley and Bob Wills, Jay McShann and Count Basie all slumming together in Great Plains dance halls. It is from this rich loam of land in the middle of the United States that Christie's material comes from. But don't expect “Rose of San Antoine." Christie's ...

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Album Review

Retta Christie: Retta Christie with David Evans and Dave Frishberg

Read "Retta Christie with David Evans and Dave Frishberg" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
August 4, 2010

Many saxophonists also double on clarinet, some notable examples being Lester Young, Art Pepper and Phil Woods, as well as the converse in Eddie Daniels, Don Byron, and Victor Goines. The two reeds complement one another by informing the performance of a player talented enough to play both. Young, who played a vibrato-less tenor with perfect tonal dimensions, achieved the same with his clarinet. Some of that master's notable clarinet tunes include “Three Little Words" and “I Got Rhythm," from ...