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June 2022: Constellations
by C. Michael Bailey
ChimyTina Constellations La Reserve 2022 ChimyTina is a collision moniker for the duo of bassist Dan “Chimy" Chmeilinski and vocalist Martina DaSilva. They are part of a daring group of singers/bassists perfecting the most musically intimate of performance formats. With the bass as the “harmony" instrument supporting a vocalist, ...
May 2022: Music In The Air
by C. Michael Bailey
Mark Christian MIller Music In The Air Sliding Jazz Door 2022 Southern California has an embarrassment of jazz vocal riches, of which Mark Christian Miller is a considerable part. A welcome fixture in the Los Angeles area, Miller has released two previous recordings in 2004's Dreamer With A Penney (Sliding Glass ...
April 2022: Get Out Of Town
by C. Michael Bailey
Kristina Koller Get Out Of Town Self Produced 2022 Youthful, vibrant, and musically precocious, vocalist / composer Kristina Koller answers her two previous recordings: the gracefully insurgent Perception (Self Produced, 2018) and frankly anarchic Stronger (Self Produced, 2019) with the intensely focused Get Out Of Town, devoted to a dramatic ...
March 2022: Send For Me
by C. Michael Bailey
Catherine Russell Send For Me Dot Time Records 2021 Where can one separate nostalgia from performance practice? Vocalist Catherine Russell prefers to engage her art using older formats. On Send For Me, Russell infuses her performances with a certain New Orleans-cum-Chicago flavor, circa 1930. She does not do this as a ...
February 2022: While I'm Still Here
by C. Michael Bailey
Bob Levy While I'm Still Here SRM Records 2021 Bob Levy is the Lord Byron of songwriters: he has the ability to throw off verse and melodies at will. His contribution to the COVID pandemic is the aptly named, While I'm Still Here. Levy has a stable of talent singing ...
January 2022: While We Were Gone
by C. Michael Bailey
Cecilia Bartoli Unreleased Decca Records 2021 A pandemic-age benefit is the marketing of unreleased past projects. Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli's Unreleased is such a project, having been recorded in 2013 and subsequently shelved. The program emanates from the center of the Classical period, well presented by Kammerorchester Basel under conductor Muhai ...
Jazz Vocals 2021
by C. Michael Bailey
Here are some notable jazz recordings heard this past year. Roseanna Vitro Sing a Song of Bird Skyline Records 2021 This release addresses jazz vocalese using Charlie Parker's music and is crafted by field expert, Roseanna Vitro while being recorded in two sessions (with two separate bands) on either ...
Classical Music 2021
by C. Michael Bailey
Here is a smattering of notable classical music released in 2021. Isata Kanneh-Mason Summertime Decca 2021 Isata Kanneh-Mason's debut, Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann (Decca, 2019) was a shrewd business decision disguised with clever production, selections at the edge of the standard repertoire, looking deeply into an ...
Christmas 2021
by C. Michael Bailey
The Holiday Season is enough to make anyone come out of hibernation. Here are some holiday recordings worthy of consideration. SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed, Director In Dulci Jubilo: Weihnachtskonzerte von Michael Praetorius SWR Classic 2021 “For in heaven we all have to make music..." so says composer Michael Praetorius, ...
Notable and Nearly Missed 2020
by C. Michael Bailey
The strange year that was 2020 yielded, reluctantly, re-issued and previously unissued recordings from across the spectrum of music and ain't it fine to have such to consider. The value of such recordings lay in their function in pointing to the musical future we presently inhabit. They fill in the blank spaces between then and now. ...
