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Gypsy in My Soul

Label: Minnehaha Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Nature Boy; I'm Confession'; Gypsy in My Soul; Nuages; Lover Come Back to Me; Lullaby of the Leaves; Until; April in Paris; Caravan; The Lonely One; Night and Day; You and the Night and the Music; Django's Premonition (Anouman); I Cover the Waterfront; S'Wonderful/Dizzy Atmosphere.

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Connie Evingson: Gypsy in My Soul

Read "Gypsy in My Soul" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


2005 should be declared the Year of the Female Jazz Vocalist. In this first quarter we have seen new releases from Cheryl Bentyne, Kate McGarry, Patti Wicks, and Dena DeRose. All are notable artists whose new recordings are equally notable. Add to this Connie Evingson's beautifully provocative Gypsy in My Soul, and one can only be ...

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Connie Evingson: Gypsy in My Soul

Read "Gypsy in My Soul" reviewed by Jim Santella


Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli gave us a timeless chapter in jazz history that emphasized acoustic music with cultural influences from various parts of the world. To that lovely aroma Connie Evingson adds her mellifluous voice and intimate way with a melody. She interprets songs that carry a nostalgic memory, and she carves each one with ...

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Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Blackbird, Wait, The Night Before, Can't Buy Me Love, From Me to You, Fixing a Hole, When I'm 64, I'm Looking Through You, For No One, I Will, Oh! Darlin,' Got to Get You Into My Life, Good Day Sunshine

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The Secret of Christmas

Label: Minnehaha Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Snowfall/I Love Winter Weather; A Carol of Bells, Simple gifts, The Christmas Song, The Nutcracker Petite Suite, Some Children See Him, Gesu Bambino, The Secret of Christmas, A Cradle in Bethlehem, Silent Night

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Connie Evingson: The Secret Of Christmas

Read "The Secret Of Christmas" reviewed by Jim Santella


Scat singing, interpreting familiar lyrics, and inserting fresh, new ideas into her holiday program, Connie Evingson offers a personal gift for everyone. The Jazz lover appreciates the strength of her vocal instrument and the cohesive manner in which she integrates her artistic companions. The Swing lover appreciates the bright outlook that she’s applied to traditional holiday ...

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Connie Evingson: The Secret of Christmas

Read "The Secret of Christmas" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Minneapolis-based vocalist Connie Evingson has a way of turning potential musical yawns into highly original and vibrant jazz workouts. Earlier this year her Let it Be Jazz--Connie Evingson Sings the Beatles gave a jolt of jazzy fresh air to a bunch of Lennon/McCartney tunes from the sixties. Now, with The Secret of Christmas, she does the ...

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Connie Evingson: Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles

Read "Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles" reviewed by Jim Santella


The songs that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote and recorded with the Beatles in the 1960s have left lasting impressions on all of us. They are timeless anecdotes from an era of exploration and change. On Let It Be Jazz Connie Evingson places each of these familiar melodies into a mainstream jazz context with a ...

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Connie Evingson: Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles

Read "Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


We orignal diehard Beatles fans--those of us who came of age during and just after the '64 British Invasion--tend to cringe at the mention of Beatles jazz albums. There's a certain sanctity associated with the music of the Fab Four; and who among us hasn't encountered an uninspired and blandly arranged Beatles knock-off? Certainly ...

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Connie Evingson: Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles

Read "Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


In my experience, non-pop interpretations of the Beatles? songbook have been dismal at best, suicidal at worst. Part of the problem, I suspect, is one of context. It seems that the Beatles canon does not lend itself readily to differing genre applications. Take for example Telarc?s recent attempt to apply a blues treatment to The White ...


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