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Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata Resurrects Lost "Sound of Music" Gem on "The Hills Are Alive"
Fans of the Broadway version of “The Sound of Music" will notice an old favorite on Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata's The Hills Are Alive (Canal Records, 3/8). That's because BRO has included “No Way To Stop It, “ a song that was previously only used in the musical's Broadway production, on the Brooklyn collaborative's bold re-imagining of ...
Carolyn Leonhart: Tides of Yesterday
by Marcia Hillman
Vocalist Carolyn Leonhart and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery are a young husband-and-wife team, and Tides of Yesterday is their second recorded partnership. And a partnership it is, because this CD (as the liner notes say) is not about a “vocalist with a band or a band with a guest vocalist." Leonhart's sultry and expressive voice acts, at ...
Trumpeter Michael Leonhart Interviewed at AAJ
For most musicians, writers and actors, making the final decision to go against the grain and pursue a paycheck-to-paycheck, month-to-month career as a performing artist is one of the harder choices in life. Yet for trumpeter Michael Leonhart, a life in jazz and art is “all in the family": his father is the noted jazz bassist, ...
Michael Leonhart: A Fortunate Son
by Telly Davidson
For most musicians, writers and actors, making the final decision to go against the grain and pursue a paycheck-to-paycheck, month-to-month career as a performing artist is one of the harder choices in life. Yet for trumpeter Michael Leonhart, a life in jazz and art is “all in the family": his father is the noted jazz bassist, ...
The State of Organ Jazz 2010 (Pt. 1): Wayne Escoffery, Dan Pratt and Matthew Kaminski
by C. Michael Bailey
Organ-based jazz inhabits a unique place as a sub-genre. The combination of the sacred churchy organ with the decadence of blues and bebop made for a heady brew after the introduction of the format by Wild Bill Davis and Bill Doggett in the 1950s. Qualitatively, the names that loom largest in organ jazz are Jimmy Smith, ...
Wayne Escoffery: Uptown
by Woodrow Wilkins
Bob Mintzer, Kirk Whalum and Ada Rovatti are just a few of today's stunning tenor sax players. Wayne Escoffery can be added to their company. Escoffery, 34, is a native of London who moved to the United States with his mother at an early age. He enjoyed singing, and was a member of the ...
NYC Vocal Jazz Workshops with Carolyn Leonhart, Presented by New York Jazz Academy, Now Registering
NYC Vocal Jazz Workshops with Carolyn Leonhart, presented by New York Jazz Academy, are now registering interested students. Led by Carolyn Leonhart, long-time vocalist with Steely Dan, acclaimed jazz singer, and professor at Berklee School of Music, these workshops are open to teens and adults at all levels. For jazz vocal enthusiasts, these weekly workshops offer ...
Carolyn Leonhart and Wayne Escoffery: If Dreams Come True
by Suzanne Lorge
Singer Carolyn Leonhart and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, a couple both on and off the bandstand, completed a smooth run at New York's Smoke the weekend of Valentine's Day 2008, highlighting the title cut from If Dreams Come True along with some well-written originals and some intelligently reworked standards. Theirs is a sweetly romantic tale: The couple ...
Carolyn Leonhart and Wayne Escoffery: If Dreams Come True
by Michael P. Gladstone
The combination of jazz vocalist Carolyn Leonhart and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery is an unusual and exciting one. Leonhart, the daughter of jazz bassist Jay Leonhart, has recorded in the past for Sunnyside Records--Steal The Moon (2000) and New 8th Day (2005). She also has provided harmony vocal work for Steely Dan over an eleven-year period. Escoffery ...
The Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery Group @ Smoke NYC - Feb 14-16 2008
The Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery Group will be performing at SMOKE Jazz Club in NYC for a Valentines Weekend celebration on February 14th, 15th & 16th, 2008. The Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery Group Carolyn Leonhart - vocals Wayne Escoffery - tenor & soprano saxophones Kevin Hays- piano
