Jazz Articles about Rick Blessing

About Rick Blessing

Album Review

Rick Blessing: I'm Just The Guy For You

Read "I'm Just The Guy For You" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
June 24, 2007

Vocalists always seem to get the short end of the jazz stick. Even back in the Swing Era, the female singers standing in front of the bands were called “the birds" and were not considered musicians by the players. Be that as it may, Rick Blessing is a wonderful vocalist and songwriter so thoroughly in touch with the style of the fifties and sixties swinging jazz/pop singer, that you would think he really is his father's age. ...

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Album Review

Rick Blessing: I'm Just The Guy For You!

Read "I'm Just The Guy For You!" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 8, 2007

It takes a bunch of chutzpah to create a musical persona and bring it off on disc and in an on-stage act successfully, and singer Rick Blessing has essentially done just that. His preferred ambiance on this debut album is the comfort level of a Frank Sinatra mid-Twentieth Century crooner. Pictured on the album's artwork, and included in the photos, is a snapbrim “Ring-A-Ding-Ding" hat along with a hipster picture of two-toned shoes somewhat akin to those retro swing groups ...