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Article: Album Review

Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony

Read "Silver Pony" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Brilliant in spite of its ragged texture, Cassandra Wilson's Silver Pony justly illuminates the important influence Wilson has had on all jazz vocals, since her artistic breakthrough with 1993's Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note). A sharp solution of live and studio performances, Silver Pony reveals the depth and breadth of both Wilson's enigmatic singing and ...

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News: Recording

Cassandra Wilson - Silver Pony (2010)

Cassandra Wilson - Silver Pony (2010)

By Nick Deriso Cassandra Wilson, who consistently defies convention as this restless chanteuse, doesn't disappoint with Silver Pony—issued today on Blue Note as the long-awaited part-in studio, part-live followup to her celebrated Loverly. She has the vocal phrasing, the dusky intellect, of Charlie Parker and the elastic intuition of Betty Carter. Yet, Wilson is no throwback. ...

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Beneath A Silver Moon

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Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 6:39

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Article: Album Review

Danielle Eva: Road and Moon

Read "Road and Moon" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Danielle Eva emerges a fully formed jazz vocalist on her debut, Road and Moon (Devour Music, 2010). She has assimilated the influences of the finest jazz vocal talent of the last 20 years: Cassandra Wilson, Cheryl Bentyne, Tierney Sutton, Karrin Allyson, and nominally, Norah Jones. Drawing equally from Wilson's organic approach, Allyson's timbre-perfect pitch, and Jones' ...

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Article: Interview

Fabrizio Sotti: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Great Album

Read "Fabrizio Sotti: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Great Album" reviewed by Matthew Warnock


Recording a jazz album is never easy. Compared to most genres of music, where everything is prearranged and planned out ahead of time, there is a large amount of spontaneity when it comes to laying down a jazz record. Many times, the best takes are the least thought-about beforehand--the ones where improvisational magic just jumps out ...

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News: Website

Free MP3s from SF Jazz Collective, Kenny Werner, Charlie Hunter, Either/Orchestra, Chucho Valdes and more at All About Jazz

All About Jazz recently topped six million MP3 downloads (since November 2005) featuring some exclusive tracks not found elsewhere on the web. We highly recommend these recently featured tracks from established and up & coming artists. And be on the lookout for a free track from Cassandra Wilson's latest Silver Pony (Blue Note, 2010) on November ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Karl Jannuska: Streaming

Read "Karl Jannuska: Streaming" reviewed by Pascal-Denis Lussier


Karl Jannuska Streaming Paris Jazz Underground Records 2010 Studies demonstrate that everyone pays more attention to a female voice--the more alluring, the better the attention--and this, regardless of gender. Singer Sienna Dahlen has an extremely alluring voice, one that could sell rainwater in a snowstorm. This may ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Aimua Eghobamien

Read "Take Five With Aimua Eghobamien" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Aimua Eghobamien: With a dad who listened to a world of music from British pop to Highlife and Calypso; a mum who sang him a do lullabies; and siblings who were interested in all things American--Motown, soul, US pop and R&B charts--his musical tastes developed without limitations. Living at various points on three continents, he ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Middelheim 2010

Read "Jazz Middelheim 2010" reviewed by Martin Longley


Jazz MiddelheimPark Den BrandtAntwerpen, BelgiumAugust 12-15, 2010 The Jazz Middelheim festival is a weekender that hasn't relinquished its fondness for adventure over the last four decades. Nuzzling up against stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...

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Article: Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: In A Dream

Read "In A Dream" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Vocalist Gretchen Parlato is part Bobby McFerrin, part Theo Bleckmann, and David Binney. All men, yes. Parlato's voice is light as an apparition, ethereal and implied. She is fond of vocal gymnastics as is McFerrin. She shares a sense of humor in art with Bleckmann and a musical adventurousness with Binney. In A Dream is the ...


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