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Cynthia Felton: Cynthia Felton Sings The Nancy Wilson Classics: Save Your Love For Me
by Dan Bilawsky
Dr. Cynthia Felton dots all the i's and crosses all the t's when putting together an album. She's a detail-oriented singer with enough smarts, business savvy, and musical skill to pull off whatever type of project she wants to pursue, be it a salute to a woefully under-appreciated figure like Oscar Brown Jr. or a tribute to jazz's most lauded figure--the great Duke Ellington. For her third tribute album, and fourth album overall, Felton turns her attention to the work ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Cynthia Felton has released two exceptionally well-conceived concept recordings in Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown (Self Produced, 2009) and Come Sunday: The Music of Duke Ellington (Self Produced, 2010). She makes a partial break with this refined focus to release a collection of personal favorite standards on Freedom Jazz Dance. Like her two previous recordings, Felton has opted to employ a variety of musicians as available as opposed to a single unit. Clearly, there is no reason to ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist/academic Cynthia Felton established herself right out of the gate with two artist-specific tribute albums that were stacked with A-list guests and highlighted her supple and soulful vocals. Felton's debut--Afro Blue: The Music Of Oscar Brown (Self Produced, 2009)--was a welcome nod to an underappreciated figure in jazz, and her journey through the world of constantly lauded jazz giant Duke Ellington was a worthy follow-up, but a third single-figure album would have been too predictable. Instead, Felton wisely broke from ...
read moreCynthia Felton: Come Sunday - The Music of Duke Ellington
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un disco del genere è di quelli che ci fa chiedere dove va il jazz oggi. Sia per la musica che contiene che per le modalità di produzione. L'ennesima autoproduzione (di questi tempi sempre più numerose). Ma stavolta con ben quattro sezioni ritmiche più ospiti, voce registrata ai Capitols Studios di Hollywood ed un grande lavoro in sede di missaggio. Non è che tutti possono permettersi uno spiegamento del genere per stamparsi un disco! Il Duca scriveva la musica e ...
read moreCynthia Felton: Come Sunday: The Music Of Duke Ellington
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Cynthia Felton turned a lot of heads with her debut, Afro Blue: The Music Of Oscar Brown Jr. (Self Produced, 2009), and her sophomore effort is bound to gain even more attention. While Brown is an important, if often overlooked figure, Felton ups the ante with her honoree of choice here. Duke Ellington is considered by many to be the alpha and omega of jazz. Artists have been paying tribute to Ellington for generations with single ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Dr. Cynthia Felton made quite the splash with her self-produced debut, Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown, Jr. (2009). In the spirit of well-assembled theme recordings like Karrin Allyson's Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (Concord, 2001) and Todd Bishop's Pop Art 4 disc, 69 Annee Erotique, Afro Blue is a solid look at a master's craft of writing lyrics for jazz pieces. Felton treads more familiar territory on Come Sunday: The Music of Duke Ellington, undertaking the ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Ormai anche per le autoproduzioni si fanno le cose in grande, basta dare uno sguardo ai tanti protagonisti che accompagnano Cynthia Felton. Altro che musicisti da studio! Qui ci sono, coinvolti di volta in volta in brani resi famosi da Oscar Brown Jr., nomi importanti di quello che è il jazz contemporaneo, impegnati a rendere efficaci gli arrangiamenti raffinati della cantante, a dare un´impronta precisa a brani più che noti al pubblico degli appassionati. Con tanta bella compagnia Cynthia Felton ...
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