Voice

Voice: Songs For Our Grandchildren

by AAJ Staff
June 25, 2003

Holding true to the identity established on Volume 1 of this series, the South African bop quintet known as Voice has chosen to stick to material that represents their country's jazz legacy on Volume 2: Songs For Our Grandchildren. You wouldn't necessarily appreciate that fact on first listen, given this group's overwhelming literacy in the world jazz tradition. But maybe that's the point: it doesn't really matter what country you come from in the end. Or does it?

Two compositions ...

Voice: Quintet Legacy

by Trevor MacLaren
February 17, 2003

Although not the most inventive of contemporary jazz styles, Voice's Quintet Legacy is a remarkable disc that features both great players and unique arrangements. With each listen what may have seemed passive on the surface builds and deepens. The five players represent something of a who's-who of South African jazz, which helps give the record its singular character.

The build and drop formula of the opener, "Siniville (We Heard You)," may seem old school, but then a jam ...

Lina Sarmiento: The Voice Redefining Colombian Zarzuela With Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 10, 2025

In the ever-innovative landscape of world music, few voices have made as powerful, imaginative, and lasting impression as Lina Sarmiento, the electrifying Colombian artist widely hailed as her generation’s leading zarzuela/early music/jazz crossover vocalist. An honors graduate of EAFIT University in Medellín and Boston’s prestigious Longy School of Music, Sarmiento has catapulted a distinctive blend of tradition and improvisation to the world stage, revitalizing the classic Spanish zarzuela by infusing it with the energy and depth of jazz—while grounding her ...
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An Italian Voice Takes Manhattan: The Unfolding Odyssey Of Monica Cialona

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2025

Award-winning Italian singer, arranger, and vocal coach Monica Cialona continues her musical journey of unparalleled originality and mastery, as reported by Francesco Arcudi. With New York firmly established as her creative epicenter, she brings to the city her singular blend of jazz intuition, pop craftsmanship, and architectural acoustics. Like Betty Carter reimagining standards or Esperanza Spalding bending genres, Cialona moves through musical worlds with both precision and daring. Her approach carries the improvisational spirit of jazz greats, filtered through a ...
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Anthony Arya (NBC's The Voice) Performs Intimate Concert At Sky Vault On September 29

Source: Robert C. Ford
September 10, 2024

On Sunday, September 29th, 2024, at 4:00pm EST, singer-songwriter Anthony Arya will perform an intimate salon concert at Sky Vault in the Financial District of New York City. Arya catapulted to national prominence following his performance on NBC's The Voice Season 15 (Team Adam Levine). Subsequently, he has released 4 albums, including his latest, As It Turns Out, featuring the single "Why Don't I". Arya will be joined by Robert C. Ford, aka Wall Street Poet. The two became fast ...
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Eastman School Of Music Appoints Sara Gazarek To Design And Lead New Jazz Voice Program

Source: Jessica Kaufman
July 28, 2023

Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, announces the launch of a newly conceived Jazz Voice track in the undergraduate Jazz and Contemporary Media degree program. To lead and design this new program, Eastman has appointed Sara Gazarek as Associate Professor of Jazz Voice within the Jazz and Contemporary Media (JCM) department. Joining Eastman after a 12-year tenure at the Thornton School of Music, of the University of Southern California, this two-time GRAMMY nominated vocalist has performed and/or ...
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Paul Slavens Is An Award-Winning Radio Host, A Voice On Legendary Anime 'dragon Ball Z,' A Member Of The Travoltas With Old 97’s Producer Salim Nourallah. He Is A Composer, Too!

Source: Fanatic Promotion
June 3, 2022

"Paul Slavens is very non-busy," said Dallas-based music discovery website Central Track. “The Denton-based composer, musician, and all-around entertainer is poised to release his new album, Alphabet Girls, Vol. II, on June 24," comments Dallas-based NPR-affiliate KXT which recently premiered the video for the Slavens single “X (On My Heart)," describing it as “a theatrical number that tells the story of a man who wants to know more about a mysterious woman who left him with a note and a ...
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Victoria-Based vocalist Alli Bean Presents Her Debut: Outside Voice

Source: Alli Bean
May 13, 2022

Debut Album Release Party – June 5, 2022 at Hermann's Jazz Club Alli Bean is pleased to announce the upcoming release of her debut album, Outside Voice. This is a major move on a mission to share her message with a wider audience. “The instrumentation... is truly a beautiful work of art, taking listeners into an alternate reality full of soulful vibes and inner peace. Alli’s vocal performance ... is phenomenal and the ambience to it is the perfect touch ...
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Nir Yaniv’s Voice Remains Eternal!

Source: Yaniv Tal
April 17, 2021

Nir Yaniv is the winner of the Sound & Vision award at the LifeArt International Festival 2020 among the competition from across the globe, including the blockbusters with superstars such as Gerard Butler, Vin Diesel, and popular Netflix series such as Emily in Paris and Fauda. However, the work he did on The Voice Remains didn't impress only LifeArt's grand jury. The original music, created by nothing but his God-given voice and a set of drums, won the Best Score ...
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World-Renowned Voice Teacher Jeannie Gagné Launches A New Subscription Series To Empower Singers And Transform Their Singing And Performing

Source: Darcie Nicole
January 20, 2021

Whether you know her as the impactful voice guru “The Vocal Genie,” as an acclaimed performing artist and bandleader, or as Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music, you know that Jeannie Gagné is a go-to source for getting students to sing their very best. Praised by her students for her honesty, compassionate approach, and uncanny skill for taking students to the next level, Jeannie translates complex musical and technical concepts into language people can understand, and infuses mind-body-spirit ...
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Guitarist And Composer Dan Liparini’s 'Tessellations' Bridges The Gap Between Paying Homage To The Legacy Of The Past And Staying True To One’s Own Voice.

Source: Outside in Music
August 25, 2020

Guitarist, composer, and bandleader Dan Liparini is a musician whose identity has been shaped by a plethora of influences, spanning genres, generations, and styles. With Tessellations, Liparini reconciles these varied influences together, birthing a voice whose sound is irrefutably drenched in jazz history while maintaining an integrity and honesty that remains unique to him. Tessellations sees Liparini’s worlds of music overlap and blend in a way that feels both organic and profound as his compositions and improvisation meet, tying together ...
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Veteran tuba master Ralph Hepola creates a dynamic, supremely soulful new lead voice for the idiom on his eclectic debut album 'Tuba'

Source: Ralph Hepola
July 2, 2020

Invented in both its bass and tenor forms in the 1830s by instrument builders Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht, Johann Gottfried Moritz and Johann’s son Carl Wilhelm Moritz, the tuba played a prominent role over the next century in the works of Strauss, Stravinsky, Wagner, Prokofiev, Brahms, Gershwin and others. Having played for several years with the Basel Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland and in the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria as part of a five-year stint in Europe ...
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