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Paula West

PAULA WEST was fueled by a determination to find the best music and communicate it in her own way. Born into a Marine Corps family in San Diego, California, she was initially exposed to classical music. "My parents didn't have a lot of jazz records," remembers Paula "My father linked to listen to classical music." Paula began listening to jazz singers such as Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn while in college. After college, Paula moved to San Francisco, unsure of what she wanted to do with her life. Buying old records from thrift shops, she studied them and then began singing classes

Paula West and the Art of Making Art

by Mathew Bahl
August 23, 2023

Jazz singing is like a horse race. To the casual eye, all the horses in the stall look the same. But they aren't. Some have more talent. Some are better trained. Some have better jockeys. Some are more exciting to watch. But no matter what we see or don't see, what the odds might be, or ...

Half Moon Bay Wine & Jazz Festival 2023

by Walter Atkins
May 31, 2023

The Second Annual Half Moon Bay Wine & Jazz Festival took place on historic Main Street Half Moon Bay, with perfect 76° weather and a cloudless sky complementing the day's music and wine tasting. Artists for the HMB Festival included El Guajiro (The Peasant), the Marcus Shelby Quintet, Sammi Joy, Paula West, the Brian Andres Trio ...

Sweet And Low Down

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 28, 2019

A two hour broadcast with new releases from the legendary Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, guitarists Amanda Monaco and Doug MacDonald, a single from Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science and vocalists Claudia Villela and Kate Vargas, with birthday shout outs to George Gershwin, Lee Wiley (pictured) and Alison Wedding, among others. Also a preview ...

I'll Remember April - Happy Jazz Appreciation Month!

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 4, 2019

A smooth segue from Women's History into Jazz Appreciation Month, commencing with a celebration of Gene Bertoncini, Freddie Hubbard and John Pizzarelli's birthdays in the first hour and concluding with a celebration of Billie Holiday in the final hour, plus new releases from Ashley Pezzotti, Ulysses Owens, Jr., Alicia Olatuja and Claire Martin & Jim Mullen ...

A Family Feeling: Temple University Jazz Faculty Record New Music By Bruce Barth

August 26, 2018

In June, six members of Temple University’s noted jazz faculty gathered in Bunker Hill Studio in Brooklyn to record eight tracks of new music composed by Bruce Barth. Terell Stafford, director of Jazz Studies at Temple, lead the charge and the result, Family Feeling, is a reflection on the warm camaraderie between Terell Stafford (trumpet); Dick ...

Jerome Jennings: The Beast

by Dan Bilawsky
December 20, 2016

Jerome Jennings has occupied the drum throne on plenty of high profile gigs since arriving in New York just over a decade ago, working with everybody from vocalist Paula West to bassist Christian McBride and trumpeter Bria Skonberg to saxophonist Craig Handy. But his is a name that still may not be familiar to many jazz ...

Live at Jazz Standard

By Paula West

Label: Hi Horse
Released: 2012
Track listing: Baltimore Oriole; Like a Rolling Stone; Wichita Lineman; Romance in the Dark; Man wanted; Nature Boy; Don’t Think twice; Where Flamingos Fly; Pocketful of Miracles; Softly As in a Morning’s Sunrise; My Romance.

Paula West: Live at Jazz Standard

by Tom Pierce
July 31, 2012

Devotees of superior jazz vocalists have several reasons to rejoice about this fourth CD by the highly respected San Francisco-based Paula West. First and foremost, the recording is simply a true knockout; but the rejoicing is also because, despite rave audiences and reviews for over a decade, this is West's first release since the impressively executed ...

Paula West at Feinstein's

October 5, 2010

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, continues its Fall 2010 season with the debut engagement of critically-acclaimed jazz vocalist Paula West from October 12-16 and from November 22-27. He will perform selections by Bob Dylan ("Shelter ...