Results for "Donna Summer"
Sidney Jacobs: If I Were Your Woman

by Richard J Salvucci
Take a deep breath. Whether or not Sidney Jacobs came up with the somewhat offbeat title of this album (originally the property of Gladys Knight and the Pips) is irrelevant. What would matter is that there is a clear line of sonic and stylistic descent from Al Jarreau to Jacobs. Fans of Jarreau's style are going ...
The Persistence of Big Bands

by Geno Thackara
It's faintly amazing to be able to talk at all about big-band recordings--plural--emerging during an ongoing pandemic with no end in sight. Nonetheless it's a milieu that still enjoys plenty of devotion, and musicians (especially jazz players) are no strangers to realizing ideas that seem practically impossible. Here we have scores of them willing to keep ...
Harriet Tubman at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
Harriet Tubman SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA January 23, 2020 The electric bass, electric guitar and drum trio Harriet Tubman stands apart in the music world. As guitarist Brandon Ross notes, they are electrified yet based on spiritual influences such as the late Alice Coltrane, the late John Coltrane's wife who ran ...
44 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: China Moses, Albert Sanz Trio y Brad Mehldau Trio

by Enrique Turpin
China Moses44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaArtèria Paral.lel17 de noviembre de 2013No siempre hacen caso los hijos a los padres. De hecho, no debieran cuando llegan a una edad --padres e hijos--, pero siempre hay excusas para no contrariar a las voces de la experiencia. Una de esas voces ...
Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63

Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty — the Queen of Disco. Yet unlike Michael Jackson or Aretha Franklin, it was a designation she wasn't comfortable embracing. I grew up on rock 'n' roll," Summer once said when explaining her reluctance to claim ...
Disco Diva Donna Summer's Studio Album

Donna Summer's Crayons Is Her First Album With New Music In 17 Years/ Crayons with all its songs co-written by Donna Summer, is an international banquet of musical delights and surprises. Singer/songwriter/pop culture icon Donna Summer has been working hard on Crayons, her bold and long-awaited new collection of songs, the artist's first full-length studio album ...