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Album

Living In Twilight

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Very Thought Of You; 500 Miles High; Living In Twilight; So In Love; Someone Like You; Saudações; So Long; I Love You; To Be Alone; Gonzalo's Melody; When You Wish Upon A Star; Hymn; Go Leave.

Article: Year in Review

Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases Of 2017

by Dan Bilawsky
December 1, 2017

Few things are a given, yet we can always count on a flood of new music making its way into the world over the course of a year. In 2017 some of the best jazz found its path by looking forward, doubling back, and/or branching out. In short, this music and the dedicated artists who make ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Five Women V – Kathleen Potton, Ariel Pocock, Christina Morrison, Michelle Bradley, Donna E. Scott, Kellye Gray

by C. Michael Bailey
June 20, 2017

There is no end to very good jazz vocals. Kathleen Potton Nero Self Produced 2017 Australian-born singer/songwriter Kathleen Potton's debut recording Nero is a sly nod in the direction of female singer/songwriters who came before. The title refers to the Laura Nyro ("Eli's Coming," Stoned Soul Picnic") and the ...

Article: Album Review

Ariel Pocock: Living In Twilight

Read "Living In Twilight" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 31, 2017

When the sun rests below the horizon, the sky sits in a limbo state represented by a wondrous ambiguity in color, content, and intention. An intoxicating afterglow emerges, both wishing the day a fond adieu and ushering in the night. It's that variegated realm, an in-between locale that's neither here nor there, that inspires pianist-vocalist Ariel ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince, 2017 - Part 1

by Mark Sullivan
March 21, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 4-11, 2017 Haiti: the only nation in the world established as the result of a slave revolt; home of Vodou. Haiti: poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; subject to devastating hurricanes and earthquakes. Most potential visitors ...

Album

Touchstone

By Ariel Pocock

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Exactly Like You; Devil May Care; Real Emotional Girl; Barrel Roll; Country; You Can Close Your Eyes; Ugly Beauty/Still We Dream; All the Things You Are; When I Fall in Love; Rainbow Sleeves; Mother Stands for Comfort; Touchstone.

Article: Album Review

Ariel Pocock: Touchstone

Read "Touchstone" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
September 14, 2016

È un brillante debutto discografico questo di Ariel Pocock, la pianista-cantante di Seattle che il produttore Matt Pierson ha preso sotto l'ala, affiancandole musicisti del calibro di Larry Grenadier, Julian Lage, Eric Harland e Seamus Blake. Un supporto di prim'ordine ma anche una bella responsabilità per una ragazza poco più che ventenne, appena uscita dall'University of ...

Album

Touchstone

By Ariel Pocock

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Exactly Like You; Devil May Care; Real Emotional Girl; Barrel Roll; Country; You Can Close Your Eyes; Ugly Beauty/Still We Dream; All The THings You Are; When I Fall In Love; Rainbow Sleeves; Mother Stands For Comfort; Touchstone.

Article: Album Review

Ariel Pocock: Touchstone

Read "Touchstone" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 7, 2015

What are the touchstones of jazz? Harmonic acuity? Internalization of swing aesthetics and advanced rhythmic language(s)? The ability to quickly parse a composition in real time? An understanding of the historical framework of the music? The ability to create and speak one's own mind using any number of vocabulary sets? Yes. Each of those elements are ...

News: Recording

Vocalist Ariel Pocock Launches Debut Artistshare Project

December 6, 2012

We are very excited to announce the launch of new ArtistShare artist Ariel Pocock's debut ArtistShare Project. At only 20 years old, Ariel is an incredibly talented singer, pianist, and composer. She has already earned widespread recognition for her talents from Downbeat Magazine, the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival at Lincoln Center, the Seattle-Kobe Jazz Vocalist Competition, ...