Jennifer Scott

Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo: The Other Road

Read "The Other Road" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 23, 2007

It has been three years since Movimento (Cumulus, 2004), the last album from singer/guitarist Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo, and the wait has been worth it. The Other Road , from this San Francisco Bay Area ensemble, evokes vivid memories of Brazilian samba and bossa nova music before the Tropicalia Movement introduced rock music into the menu of the first wave of bossa singer/songwriters in the early 1970s. At the same time, despite numerous re-awakenings of acoustic samba music, where ...

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Seattle Times: Jennifer Scott Forges Jazz Art from Pop Classics

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 28, 2009

from The Seattle Times: Jennifer Scott is a musical alchemist, a singer with a gift for transforming songs often dismissed as pop dross into jazz gold. Not that she makes a particular point out of dredging up Top 40 hits, but the Vancouver, B.C.-based Scott has set herself apart from the jazz-vocalist pack with her mesmerizing renditions of the most unlikely tunes. “I’ve never been a jazz snob,” says Scott, who makes her Bake’s Place debut as a bandleader this ...
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