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Article: Album Review

Jurg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet: Furioso

by John Sharpe
March 11, 2009

Irrespective of the connections, the soprano saxophone clarion call opening Furioso immediately evokes the ghost of Steve Lacy. The debut disc from Swiss soprano saxophonist Jurg Wickihalder's Overseas quartet might be better titled Vivacissimo, such is the joy and vitality which springs out from every digital pit and pore. Though it was at Boston's ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

JD Walter: Live in Portugal

by Victor L. Schermer
March 6, 2009

J.D. Walter Live In Portugal JWAL Records 2008 J.D. Walter may be the most avant-garde vocalist in jazz today. He uses a broad range of musical and linguistic approaches to create haunting atmospheres, rapid scat runs, and emotionally engaging interpretations of both standards and his own compositions. On ...

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Article: Interview

Don Braden: Harvard Hipster

by Jason Crane
January 22, 2007

Don Braden went to Harvard in 1981 to become a computer programmer and emerged as a new voice on the saxophone. For two decades he's been making a name for himself in the modern jazz world, and he's compiled an impressive resume, working with established masters like [trumpeter] Freddie Hubbard, [vocalist] Betty Carter, [drummers] Roy Haynes ...

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El Momento

By Betty Carter

Label: BETTYRules Music
Released: 2006

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Article: First Time I Saw

Betty Carter Remembered

by Dee Dee McNeil
May 13, 2006

On a smoggy summer day in the mid-1970's, Soul & Jazz Record magazine scheduled my interview with Betty “Be Bop Carter. Even then she was legendary. Lillie Mae Jones, soon to become Betty Carter, grew up traveling between Flint and Detroit chasing scat dreams. Ultimately, Lillie Mae would become the world's Be Bop Queen, donning her ...

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Article: Book Review

Open The Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter

by Craig Jolley
March 4, 2004

Open The Door William R. Bauer Univ of Michigan Press ISBN: 019514838X Betty Carter came up as a bebop-only singer in the late 40's. She gradually broadened and deepened her music, enduring what she perceived as failed career over the next 25 years. Beginning with an engagement at the Keystone ...

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'S Finest Hour

By Betty Carter

Label: BETTYRules Music
Released: 2003

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Betty Carter's Finest Hour

By Betty Carter

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: You're Driving Me Crazy; I Can't Help It; Babe's Blues; Medley: I Didn't Know What Time It Was / All The Things You Are / I Could Write A Book; Tight; Open The Door (Theme Song); The Trolley Song; I Could Write A Book; Social Call; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; It Don't Mean A Thing; The Good Life; Droppin' Things; In The Still Of The Night;

Article: Interview

Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled

by Mathew Bahl
December 1, 2001

The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...

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I'm Yours, You're Mine

By Betty Carter

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1997
Track listing: This Time; I'm Yours, You're Mine; Lonely House; Close Your Eyes; Useless Landscape; East of the Sun; September Song.