Jazz Articles about Amanda Addleman

About Amanda Addleman

Instrument: Vocals

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Composer and pianist Amanda Addleman spent time working as an educator in her native Marin County, California so she is familiar with the problems minority students of that area have in dealing with racism and bullying from their peers. The irony of this is adults in that community vote for progressive causes and take a “not in my backyard" attitude toward the idea of such things happening where they live. She expresses all this musically through her composition “NIMBY."

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Amanda Addleman: Into the Light

Read "Into the Light" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
January 12, 2020

There are a lot of young singers around whose music draws equally from the fluidity of jazz and the confessional focus of the singer-songwriter genre. San Francisco's Amanda Addleman is one of those. This CD mixes personal original songs with standards and she delivers both with a deceptively light but powerful voice and understated passion. Her voice has a gauzy, high-flying quality that fits perfectly with her languid, easy-flowing music, rhythms built on electric piano and guitar that ...