Jazz Articles about Karen Blixt

Karen Blitx: Spin This

by Woodrow Wilkins
July 16, 2007

It started when she was a little church girl. Listening to her organist mother sing the harmony parts of hymns, Karen Blixt soon developed a knack for improvising. The New York-born West Coast transplant has spent her life exploring different ways to present a song. After years of live performances in nightclubs, weddings, receptions and fund-raisers, she took a friend's advice and recorded her own album, Spin This, on her label HiFli. A fixture ...