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Album Review

Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere

Read "Somewhere" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Based in Victoria, British Columbia, Angela Verbrugge keeps a busy schedule as a singer, touring in Canada and farther afield. In addition to performing, she writes songs--jazz songs, new standards--with lyrics that are engagingly personal and funny, containing the occasional acerbic twist. As a lyricist, she often speaks to the quotidian. Her texts are a perfect match for pianist Ray Gallon's boppish compositions. On “Enough's Enough" (Love for Connoisseurs, Gut String Records, 2022), she takes a sloppy lover to task ...

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Liner Notes

Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere

Read "Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere" reviewed by Michael Steinman


The proper response to Beauty is an awed admiring silence. So these liner notes should be one word in a large font: LISTEN. But Angela asked me to add a few hundred keystrokes to the project, so here we are. Incidentally, I have chosen to focus on Angela in the midst of the most superb musicians and arrangements. I hope they will forgive me! Angela Verbrugge is a great subversive. Her work is so quietly insinuating that listeners ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Somewhere

OA2 Records
2024

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Love for Connoisseurs

Gut String Records
2022

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For You, For Me, Forevermore

From: Somewhere
By Joel Fountain

Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)

From: Somewhere
By Joel Fountain

Corn on the Cob

From: Love for Connoisseurs
By Joel Fountain

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