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Eva Cassidy
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Eva Cassidy was the third of four children born to Hugh and Barbara Cassidy. From an early age, she displayed artistic and musical talent. When she was nine years old, her father taught her to play the guitar, and she began to play and sing at family gatherings. While a student at Bowie High School, she sang with a local band called Stonehenge, and received considerable praise. At the age of eighteen, Cassidy began her professional career, singing and playing guitar in a Washington, D.C., area band, called Easy Street. This band performed in a variety of styles, at weddings, corporate parties, and pubs. During the summer of 1983, Cassidy sang and played guitar, six days per week, at Wild World, in Maryland
Take Five with Kari Kirkland
by AAJ Staff
Meet Kari Kirkland Kari Kirkland's debut album 'Wild is the Wind' was produced and arranged by four-time Grammy©-nominee, pianist, composer, and arranger Shelly Berg. He assembled an impressive cast of players for the recording: legendary guitarist Dean Parks, Kevin Axt (Tierney Sutton) on bass, and drummer Gregg Field (Frank Sinatra), with Berg himself on piano. The ...
Chiara Pancaldi: Alla Ricerca di Sè Stessi
by Paolo Marra
Precious è il nuovo disco di Chiara Pancaldi, il terzo registrato per la prestigiosa etichetta olandese Challenge Records. In questo lavoro, composto quasi interamente da brani originali, la cantante affianca per la prima volta il ruolo di interprete di standard a quello di compositrice, mettendo le sue doti ormai affermate al servizio di una musica più ...
C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2018
by C. Michael Bailey
The Pocket Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Stangel Beethoven Revisited Symphonies 1-9 One thing that can be bragged on regarding Beethoven's nine symphonies is their artistic durability and persistence. As the pinnacle of Western Musical thought, we might not expect any less of this music, seemingly forged in humanity's collective unconscious, as well ...
Seven woMEN 2018 – Part III
by C. Michael Bailey
Look what creeped into my monthly column... and herein exist end-of-the-year-recordings...(you decide which ones). Ben Paterson That Old Feeling Cellar Live Records 2018 Everything about pianist/vocalist Ben Paterson's Cellar Live release, That Old Feeling is delightful. This recording is a beautiful throwback, with just a touch of ...
Nightbird
By Eva Cassidy
Label: Audiophile Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD1: Blue Skies; Ain't Doin Too Bad; Ain't No Sunshine; Fields of
Gold; Baby I Love You; Honeysuckle Rose; Route 66; Bridge Over
Troubled Water; Band intro; Chain Of Fools; Fever; Autumn Leaves;
Fine And Mellow; Cheek To Cheek; Don't Mean A Thing; Late In The
Evening; Next Time You See Me; Waly Waly. CD2: Take Me To The
River; Nightbird; People Get Ready; The Letter; Son Of A Preacher
Man; Stormy Monday; Tall Trees In Georgia; Something's Got A Hold
Of Me; Time After Time; Somewhere Over The Rainbow; Welcome To The
Club; Caravan; You've Changed; Wonderful World; Oh Had I A Golden
Thread.
Singer, Songwriter & Jazz Musician Elizabeth Geyer To Release Long Awaited New Album "The Bridge"
“Elizabeth Geyer is a force of nature. An amazing singer and songwriter, original vocalist, wonderful trumpet player and multi instrumentalist. She writes songs directly from the heart!” —Bruce Lundvall, Blue Note Records / EMI An endorsement like that from the man who signed Nora Jones, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis is something to make one sit ...
Eva Cassidy: Nightbird
by C. Michael Bailey
The late singer/guitarist Eva Cassidy (1963-1996) was a possibility nature did not allow fulfilled. Barely started in what promised to be a successful career, Cassidy died at 33 from malignant melanoma, the same year her notable Live at Blues Alley (Eva Music) was recorded and released. The present Nightbird is the expansion and 20th Anniversary celebration ...
Take Five With Karen Lane
by Karen Lane
Meet Karen Lane: Originally from jny: Perth then jny: Sydney and Singapore and has been resident in London for the last 14 years. She has released five albums to rave reviews and played London's most prestigious jazz clubs including Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho and Ronnie Scotts with musicians including Jamie Cullum, Geoff Gascogne, Enzo ...
Swedish indie label Volenza relaunches
by Chris Mosey
At the age of 82, Torgil Rosenberg has decided that the time has come to take a back seat in the running his Swedish independent jazz label Volenza. “It's time for a new generation to take over," he says, “My future role in the company will be a purely advisory one."
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