Results for "Billie Holiday"

Patricia Scot: Once Around the Clock

by Samuel Chell
August 1, 2009

This reissue has at least two pleasant surprises: first, the revelation that, before discovering and promoting the gold mine that came to be known as smooth jazz, Creed Taylor was a musician of impeccable taste and discrimination; second, the rediscovery of an original vocalist/pianist who once toiled in piano bars in the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor as well ...

Take Five With Mike Mainieri

by AAJ Staff
July 30, 2009

Meet Mike Mainieri: Primarily recognized as an award-winning jazz vibraphonist, Mike Mainieri's equally remarkable talents as producer, performer, arranger, and composer have contributed to shaping the cutting edge in music. During '50s and early '60s, he performed with such legendary artists as Buddy Rich, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Wes Montgomery. ...

Take Five With Amy Barlow Liberatore

by AAJ Staff
July 23, 2009

Meet Amy Barlow Liberatore: Born in Binghamton, raised among jazz musicians who mentored her from her first club appearance at 17, Amy Barlow Liberatore began her vocal/piano career (New York, Los Angeles, Bermuda, Puerto Rico) playing jazz standards. A lucky break put her on the road with Rickie Lee Jones' first national tour. She later began ...

Kat Edmonson: Take To The Sky

by Holly Holmes
July 23, 2009

Jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson summed up her musical philosophy best when she told journalist Joey Guerra, “I just think good music is good music." The Austin-based singer's album Take To The Sky draws half of its repertoire from America's most timeless Tin Pan Alley songwriters, including the Gershwins and Cole Porter. The other half of the ...

Introducing the World's Greatest Jazz Collection at JazzGreatsOnline.com

July 21, 2009

The innovative new website jazzgreatsonline.com has been launched for jazz lovers everywhere. This classic collection is available for the first time as a weekly downloadable collectable magazine in pdf format and MP3 music tracks. It provides some of the best digital remastering of classic jazz music around. For only $4.99/€3.99/£2.99 per issue, you will receive direct ...

Billie Holiday Statue Finally Gets Finishing Touches

July 17, 2009

Graphic panels in the base add elements of black history When Baltimore sculptor James Earl Reid created the city's first memorial to the stunningly gifted jazz singer Billie Holiday in 1985, something was missing. Gone were the panels containing references to the Jim Crow era and the lynching that Holiday so chillingly recounted in the ballad ...

Remembering Billie Holiday

July 17, 2009

Billie Holiday Fifty Years Later: A Tribute and Reassessment

by Victor L. Schermer
July 17, 2009

Fifty years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died an untimely death at age 44 in a New York hospital from complications of drug and alcohol dependency. Now, half a century after her passing, it is an appropriate hommage to reflect once again on her legacy as a singer, an African American woman, a victim-- ...

Melody Gardot: My One And Only Thrill

by Ian Patterson
June 27, 2009

The old saying 'stick to what you know' has paid handsome dividends for Melody Gardot, for in writing her own songs she is able to express her considerable talent to the full. With the exception of one non-original, (a Brazilian tinged “Somewhere Over the Rainbow") these self penned songs show that Gardot is a poet bursting ...

Mike Arroyo: Transition

by Edward Blanco
June 17, 2009

Mike Arroyo, from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico is no ordinary jazz artist. He believes in a higher calling where his devotion to music is secondary to his commitment to his faith. Arroyo is a jazz guitarist who is first and foremost a full-time pastor with an almost religious fervor to spreading the music as well as ...