Jazz Articles about Veronica Swift

About Veronica Swift

Album Review

A born be-bopper, it's literally impossible not to love the energy that 25 year old Veronica Swift brings to her game. Soulfully infused with an infectious passion for jazz past and future, she is building a grand foundation for a long and colorful career, guaranteeing plenty of great performances and listenings along the way. So it is certain that it is no accident that she opens her raucous and ballsy Mack Avenue Records debut Confessions with Andre and ...

Album Review

Veronica Swift: Confessions

Read "Confessions" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
August 7, 2019

Times change. In the Me Too era it is clearly politically incorrect for a female singer to sidle up to the microphone and huskily breathe “My Heart Belongs To Daddy" like Julie London used to do. Or even, for that matter, to lustily proclaim “Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" like Marilyn Monroe. But a residue of that sort of thing (it's called sex appeal) needs to remain, regardless. Veronica Swift is the epitome of a modern female ...

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Nuove vocalist all’orizzonte

by Angelo Leonardi
March 19, 2019

Nuove vocalist crescono. Da qualche anno, sia nel jazz che nella black popular music, sono emerse vocalist di talento, prossime a imporsi negli anni a venire. In questa fase storica di globalizzazione spinta anche il canto jazz è entrato in una dimensione globale. Aumentano le possibilità per tutti di apprendere le forme espressive delle musiche afroamericane e operare eventuali sintesi con le tradizioni d'origine. È un arricchimento per musiche di nicchia come il jazz ma nasconde una perdita identitaria quando ...