Results for "Ada Bird Wolfe"

Ada Bird Wolfe, Jamieson Trotter: He & Me

by C. Michael Bailey
November 9, 2020

Ada Bird Wolfe's 2018 debut CD, Birdie (Self Produced), was one of the best recordings released that year. For Wolfe, music has been a lifetime love, even while in school and after, working in business, and writing full time. Wolfe has sojourned from the East to the West Coast, where she finally landed, set down roots ...

Ada Bird Wolfe

Ada Bird Wolfe is a jazz singer and lyricist located in Los Angeles. After many years in other professions, Ms. Wolfe returned to singing, her first love, in 2010. She has performed at venues throughout Southern California including Au Lac, Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill, Gardenia Supper Club, Upstairs at Vitello’s and Bar Fedora. Critics have called her: a “potent jazz singer,” “brilliant” and “magical,” with “stories to tell.” In addition to sets in clubs and restaurants, she has created a number of major shows: The French Show, Vol 1, Jazzography, Chanteuse, Soliloquy and Blues-A-Licious. In 2015 she created Giant Shoulders, a multi-show series exploring jazz musicians and composers, which so far has included: Monk-O-Sphere, And the Word Was Mingus, and The Saint and the Sinner Man: Miles Davis and John Coltrane

C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
December 12, 2019

The number of critics writing for All About Jazz is such that there is little content overlap from one scrib to the next. This provides the reader a rich and compelling collection of opinion from which to derive guidance regarding a broad variety of music. Also contributing to All About Jazz as a resource are the ...

Ten Artists: February 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
February 4, 2019

Cecilia Bartoli Antonio Vivaldi Decca 2018 2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli recording for Decca, her label for the duration of her career. Bartoli's first recording was Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (London/Decca, 1989) opposite famous baritone Leo Nucci. My own introduction to Bartoli was through her Mozart ...