Jazz Articles about Dorothy Doring

Dorothy Doring: Southern Exposure

by Michael P. Gladstone
March 22, 2008

Jazz vocalist Dorothy Doring has a history with the Crescent City. A native of Minnesota vacationing in New Orleans in 2004, Doring encountered pianist David Torkanowsky, which led to her sitting in with his group. One thing led to another and, although the beginnings of this album began that year, it was not released until December, 2007 due to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

The aptly named Southern Exposure was produced by Torkanowsky, who recruited some of the ...

Dorothy Doring: Southern Exposure

by Dan McClenaghan
February 26, 2008

Minnesota-based vocalist Dorothy Doring followed the Mississippi River from her native Minnesota down to New Orleans to record her CD Southern Exposure.The set opens with the time-tested Consuelo Velasques tune, “Besame Mucho." It's a song that's been covered by, seemingly, everybody: The Beatles, Carmen McCrae, Frank Sinatra, Nat “King" Cole and so on. So how do you freshen it up? Doring does it via a slow simmer of David Tarkanowsky's spare arrangement, that opens with a haunted saxophone ...

Take Five With Dorothy Doring

by AAJ Staff
February 4, 2008

Meet Dorothy Doring: Dorothy Doring is a Minnesota-based jazz vocalist and music educator. She successfully balances employment between teaching for the Saint Paul Public Schools and performing at various clubs in the Twin Cities area. Doring prefers to use her free time reading, traveling and listening to music. Dorothy Doring recorded Southern Exposure in New Orleans with producer and arranger David Torkanowsky, now available on iTunes and CDbaby.com.Instrument(s): Voice.When were you happiest? When I was living ...