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Fay Claassen
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Fay Claassen was born in 1969 in Nijmegen The Netherlands. Before she devoted herself to singing, she followed courses at the academy of ballet. Subsequently she studied at the academy of acting after which she finally opted for singing. She completed her study at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague in Holland with remarkable distinctions for jazz-timing and vocal improvisation.
Fay Claassen graduated in 1997 from the Royal Consevatory of The Hague with two special endorsements for Jazz timing and Jazz improvisation. Some of her teachers were: Rita Reys, Deborah Brown, Frans Elsen, Racheal Gould, James McGray, Marjory Barnes and Judy Niemack.
The Hidden World Of Piloo
By Ada Rovatti
Label: Piloo Records and Productions LLC
Released: 2024
Track listing: Make Up Girl;
Hey You (Scintilla Of Sonder) (Feat. Fay Claassen );
Painchiller;
Life Must Go On ( feat. Alma Naidu);
Grooveland;
Take It Home (feat. Niki Haris);
Simba's Samba;
Red August;
The Naked King;
Done Deal (Feat. Niki Haris and Kurt Elling).
The Hot Toddies Jazz Band, Anat Cohen, Delia Fischer, Kris Davis Plus A Centennial Celebration of Producer Rosetta Reitz
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from the Hot Toddies Jazz Band, Anat Cohen, Delia Fischer, Kris Davis plus a single from Jenny Scheinman, with birthday shoutouts to record producer and feminist historian Rosetta Reitz (100!), Koko Taylor, Irene Reid, Norma Winstone, Carol Welsman, Mamiko Watanabe and Nadia Washington, among others. Happy listening and please support the ...
Ada Rovatti: The Hidden World Of Piloo
by Katchie Cartwright
Ada Rovatti's curiously titled album, The Hidden World of Piloo, has a tale attached (and a tail). Piloo is an affectionate name Rovatti's father has called her since childhood, after a “naughty" cat in a favorite children's book. She adopted it for her label as well (Piloo Records). Rovatti grew up in Mortara, Italy, outside of ...
Tis The Season - New Releases and Jazz Holiday Fare
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast is full of jazz holiday fare, with new Christmas releases from Jonathan Karrant, Jane Monheit and Lyn Stanley, as well as the latest from Houston Person, Nicholas Payton, Nadje Noordhuis and The String Queens, plus birthday shoutouts to Amina Figarova, Ethel Ennis, Fay Claassen, Melissa Aldana, Cassandra Wilson and Beth McKenna, among others. Thanks ...
What We Need Are Hearts On Fire
by Mary Foster Conklin
Sample sweet holiday music from Beegie Adair, plus new releases by pianists Harold Mabern and Sue Palmer, with birthday shout outs to Diane Schuur, Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams (celebrating his centennial this year), Jazz Master Bob Dorough, Cassandra Wilson and lyricist Morgan Ames, among others. Playlist Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band “The Little Drummer ...
Luck Child
By Fay Claassen
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Luck Child; One Trick Pony; Song of Life; Blackbird; Fay; In a Sentimental Mood; Finding You; When Love Was New; Oh Shenandoah; Miniature No. 7; A House is Not a Home; God Bless the Child; Cinema Paradiso.
Fay Claassen: Luck Child
by C. Michael Bailey
Dutch singer Fay Claassen has taken her sweet time releasing a follow-up to her 2010 big band release, Sing (Challenge). Her most recent recordings before sing include Red, Hot & Blue: The Music of Cole Porter (Challenge, 2009), and the uniformly excellent Two Portraits Of Chet Baker (Munich, 2006), all uniquely their own works of art. ...
Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves
by Jack Bowers
Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...
Sing!
By Fay Claassen
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Tight; Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby; Throw It Away; A Felicidade; You Turn Me On; Cover Me; Be Cool; Umhome; A Good Man Is Hard To Find; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing; Tea For Two; Everything Must Change.
