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Ted Rosenthal and Thelonious Monk
by Nick Catalano
This is the year for numerous Monk retrospectives. There are many themes. One show celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Town Hall concert when Hall Overton arranged Monk's compositions for a large band. Another show focuses on Monk's pianism at Minton's Playhouse. And on and on. The concert that I found most intriguing was held in ...
Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola.
Ann Hampton Callaway’s self-reinvention from a lachrymose piano-bar chanteuse into a jazz swinger progressed a step further on Tuesday evening at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, where she added a new pose to her arsenal of attitudinal stances: pugilistic bossiness. Punching out “The Best Is Yet to Come,” that optimistic swinger by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, ...
Ann Hampton Callaway: At Last
by Woodrow Wilkins
It takes a certain degree of nerve to take on “At Last," Mack Gordon and Harry Warren's classic ballad. Etta James' definitive recording is the standard by which most--if not all--renderings are judged. Singer Ann Hampton Callaway has that nerve, and then some. Callaway, a performer in the Broadway musical Swing!, composed and ...
Ann Hampton Callaway: Blues In the Night
by Jim Santella
Ann Hampton Callaway shows off her persuasive pipes on this memorable program of familiar songs and originals. Backed by pianist Ted Rosenthal, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Lewis Nash, she explores the kind of songs that drive Broadway wild. Sherrie Maricle's Diva big band appears on four tracks, while band members Anat Cohen (tenor saxophone) and ...
Ann Hampton Callaway Swings Blues Alley
by Franz A. Matzner
Ann Hampton Callaway Blues Alley Washington, DC September 14, 2006 Showmanship is a rare commodity in the jazz world today. Too many performers believe it contradicts true artistry. In some cases they may be right. But add a healthy dose of real talent and the two can offer a winning ...
Signature
Label: N-Coded Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: Tenderly; You Turned the Tables on Me; Route 6*; A Kiss to Build a Dream On; The Best Is Yet to Come; For All We Know**; Mr. Paganini; In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning; Is That All There Is?; Twisted**; Good Morning Heartache
Ann Hampton Callaway: Signature
by Mathew Bahl
The gap between Barbra Streisand and Ella Fitzgerald is wide, a fact that Ann Hampton Callaway has no doubt discovered. Ms. Callaway began her career in the early 1980s as a rich-voiced, highly musical cabaret singer with a preference for intensely dramatic ballads. In the mid-90s, she changed directions and embraced vocal jazz. Although some of ...
Ann Hampton Callaway: Signature
by Dave Nathan
With each release, cabaret singer, Broadway performer and apparently soon to become TV star with her own show on PPBS, Ann Hampton Callaway amazes with her versatility. Becoming even more adventurous than ever on this latest release with a play list that brims with interesting and varied material, from the Vocalese gem, “Twisted", made famous by ...
