Jazz Articles about Sara Bielanski

About Sara Bielanski

Album Review

Sara Bielanski: From the Heart

Read "From the Heart" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
March 11, 2017

Vocalist Sara Bielanski's debut album is heartfelt in the most descriptive sense possible for being inspired by the open-heart surgery that saved her life in 2011. Bielanski, who comes from a classical background yet has always nurtured a love for jazz standards, decided it was time to let that love shine in the studio, and the results are as affirming as their catalyst was close to being fatal. From the smoothly ushered first lines of “Night Lights," Bielanski's ...

Album Review

Sara Bielanski: From the Heart

Read "From the Heart" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer
December 20, 2016

This is vocalist Sara Bielanski's debut album, and for it she brought together a group of fine musicians with connections to the Berklee School of Music and The New England Conservatory, institutions where for well over more than a half-century many of our most outstanding players have gotten their jump start. Bielanski herself is a fine crossover singer and vocal teacher based in Cambridge, so the album has a touch of the sophisticated New England Back Bay feeling of those ...