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Jazz vocalist and DC-native Akua Allrich has proven herself to be a musician of extraordinary talent and crowd-moving passion. With finesse and charisma, this vocalist, composer and teacher, has successfully etched out a place for her unique musical expression, electrifying audiences in and around the nation’s capital with sold-out performances. With the launch of her independently produced album, A Peace of Mine, in 2010, the young artist’s music and concerts are creating a significant buzz with critics and music-lovers alike. Said Franz Matzner of All About Jazz, “Akua Allrich’s music flows with a free, natural energy as engaging as her equally ingenuous personality.” Allrich’s style is fluid and ever evolving
Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In the 1939-40 academic year at Harvard University, Igor Stravinsky delivered a series of six lectures in French entitled Poétique musicale sous forme de six leçons. Stravinsky analysed the role of the critic, the requirements of the interpreter and the state of Russian music. He believed that a composer's freedom to create rose from ...
Al Jarreau, Norma Winstone, Thandi Ntuli and More
by Jua Howard
Welcome Music Family! It's time for another heartfelt episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a great show in store for you this week including a lot of new music from artists such as Norma Winstone, Zack Foley, Suzanne Pittson, and Eric Hollaway; and plenty more timeless music from artists such as Billie Holiday, ...
2023 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
by Richard Conde
The City Parks Foundation kicked off its 31st annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. The three day celebration of the life of the late saxophonist Charlie Parker took place in the neighborhood near where Charlie Parker worked and lived. Friday August 25th uptown Harlem at Marcus Garvey Park featured Orrin Evans, Lisa Fischer, and The Captain Black ...
Akua Allrich at the Howard Theater
by Franz A. Matzner
Local star Akua Allrich continued her rapid rise this month performing music from her latest album Uniquely Standard (Self Produced, 2012) at the historic Howard Theater on Washington, DC's U Street.An accomplished vocalist whose vibrant performances and inviting stage presence have built a loyal following and propelled her to the forefront of Washington, DC's ...
Sinnerman
Featuring the music of Akua Allrich
Duration: 3:27
Live! Uniquely Standard
By Akua Allrich
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: My Baby Just Cares for Me; Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood; I Wish You
Love; Lush Life; Jol'Inkomo; Afro Blue; Wishful Thinking; Black
Coffee;Sinnerman; (I'm Afraid) the Masquerade Is Over; (Outro)
Fire/Seeline Woman.
Akua Allrich: Live! Uniquely Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz vocals standard repertoire has a quantum mechanics of its own. Artists seem attracted to certain dense loci within the repertoire and orbit there. Then there are some artists that do this while accumulating other pieces outside of this loci to make their own. This is what Washington, DC native Akua Allrich does and displays ...
Jazz Film Uncovers Washington, D.C. Jazz Treasures
Stefan Immler has taken Washington’s love for jazz to new heights with his seminal documentary Oxygen for the Ears: Living Jazz. This full-length documentary, which took the German-born jazz lover more than three years to make, reveals many surprising new facts about jazz in the nation’s capital. Immler’s film will be the opener for the Third ...
