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The Freesong Suite
By Fay Victor
Label: Greene Avenue Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Room 1407: Seasons, Dry, Bob and Weave, Night Ties; Room 1093: Joe's Car, Stemming; Room 1310: Gone Fishing, Ideal Situation, Heating Up; Seasons - Reprise.
Fay Victor Ensemble: The Freesong Suite
by John Kelman
It's a tough time to be a singer. With an excessive plethora of vocalists mining the Great American Songbook ad nauseum, or trying their hands at songwriting with less than distinctive results, it's harder than ever to be heard. Even once-innovative singers like Cassandra Wilson--now a Grammy Award-winning “star"--have deserted experimentation, resting instead on their not ...
Fay Victor: The Freesong Suite
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Vocalist Fay Victor first appeared in the New York scene in the early '90s but soon moved to the Netherlands, returning in 2003. Victor's years abroad proved to be quite influential on her work, with a slightly Dutch aesthetic informing a quirky blend of absurdism, poetic lyricism and blues-influenced jazz styling. On The Freesong Suite, rather ...
The Jazz Session #95: Fay Victor
The Fay Victor Ensemble's The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue, 2009) is a tour de force of writing, improvisation and performance. Victor and her band paint one fluid word picture after another, linking these composed sections with free playing that is smart, muscular and emotional. In this interview, Victor talks about why she needed a steady band ...
Fay Victor: The Freesong Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
La cantante americana Fay Victor si conferma con questo eccellente The Freesong Suite, come una delle voci più interessanti emerse negli ultimi anni nel panorama internazionale della vocalità jazz. Il suo approccio è multiforme, tiene conto del blues e del free-jazz, non disdegna riferimenti che occhieggiano al rock e alla tradizione del canto jazz. Ma riesce ...
Fay Victor Ensemble, Cartwheels Through The Cosmos
By Fay Victor
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2007
Cartwheels Through the Cosmos
By Fay Victor
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2007
Track listing: Leap of Faith; Exchange Rate; It
Fay Victor Ensemble: Cartwheels Through the Cosmos
by John Kelman
Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving. “Leap of Faith," the opening track on Fay Victor's Cartwheels Through the Cosmos, bursts out of the speakers, suggestion a hard-edged album filled with relentless energy when that's only part of the equation. The beauty of Victor, who's the absolute antithesis of polite vocal jazz, is her blending of soulful ...
Fay Victor Ensemble: Cartwheels Through the Cosmos
by Jerry D'Souza
Fay Victor marks an impressive presence on Cartwheels Through the Cosmos as she comes up with an arresting amalgam of songs. Victor neither caters to the norm nor does she slot herself. Instead, she soars free and often beautifully as her phrasing finds a comfort zone in jazz harmony. Her sense of improvisation is another asset; ...
