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Jackie Ryan

Jackie teamed with GRAMMY Award winner John Clayton to deliver her chart-
topping CD "Listen Here" - a tour de force through a myriad of jazz idioms — from
blues and gospel flavored jazz gems, to luscious love songs, a soaring Spanish
ballad, a Gershwin classic, pulsating samba rhythms, an original with lyrics penned
by GRAMMY/Oscar/Emmy Award winners — all culminating with the title track: a
stunning duet with 3-time GRAMMY nominee Gerald Clayton.
"Those who hear her are the fortunate ones," writes Howard Mandel - president, Jazz
Journalists Association; "An astonishing contralto voice," (DOWNBEAT), thrilling
audiences across the globe with her powerful 3 & 1/2 octave range and her magnetic
stage presence - and amassing, along the way, an impressive array of records (three
back-to-back #1 CDs on JazzWeek's nationwide chart) and glowing reviews.
Her previous outing - a double CD, "DOOZY" - featured Cyrus Chestnut, Eric
Alexander, Jeremy Pelt, Carl Allen, Ray Drummond and Romero Lubambo, garnered
universal praise (4-Stars from both DOWNBEAT and AMG), and held the #1 position
nationwide on JazzWeek's industry-standard chart for a record-breaking 7 solid
weeks
Recuerdos de mi Madre

By Jackie Ryan
Label: OpenArt PRODUCTIONS LLC
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1 EL DÍA QUE ME QUIERAS the day that you love me;
2 SABOR A MÍ taste of me;
3 MARIA ELENA maria elena;
4 NOCHE DE RONDA night rounds;
5 CONTIGO APRENDÍ i learned with you;
6 PERFIDIA treachery;
7 NOSOTROS we;
8 SIBONEY siboney;
9 CAMINITO little street;
10 QUIZÁS, QUIZÁS, QUIZÁS perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
More Than 3 Tenors

by H William Stine
They were superstars on their own, iconic names who didn't need first names: Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti. The world loved them; and they loved the world -sometimes a little too literary. When they agreed to sing together, they went from superstars to superheroes: The Three Tenors. Three? Really? That's all it takes to be adored? I can ...
Baby Talk

by H William Stine
Taking baby stepsisn't that what I was doing in my driveway after the last snow storm? Out of the mouths of babesisn't that why we put bibs on them? Sleep like a babyI'm sure my audience can relate to that. Throw the baby out with the bath waterdoesn't that just mean it's time to get your eyes examined? ...
Singing Their Praises

by H William Stine
Don't you love it when Nat Cole sings one of his signature songs, for instance, "Smile?" Someone else sang that this week. What about any recordings of Sinatra singing Angel Eyes?" Someone else sang that too, because this week great singers and musicians paid tribute to other great singers and musicians in a two-hour love fest of ...
Tom Lawton: Not Less Than Everything

by Victor L. Schermer
Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) --T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets; Little Gidding" This poetic quotation ...
Groundhog Day

by H William Stine
Explain to me again why we created a holiday to honor an ugly, destructive rodent and a misguided superstition while continuing to discredit the value of scientific facts in our lives? I based my Groundhog Day celebration on the classic movie and this rule: if you hear a song once this week, you're going to hear ...
Drum Maestro Akira Tana Puts A Gorgeous Spin On The Brazilian Songbook With JAZZaNOVA

AKIRA TANA didn’t have to go looking for Brazilian music as a young musician. An elite jazz drummer since the mid-1970s, he’s been immersed in the verdant hothouse of Brazil’s surging rhythms and sensuous melodies his entire career. His new album JAZZaNOVA, which is slated for release by Vega on March 1, 2018, reflects an abiding ...
Mark Winkler: The Company I Keep

by Dan Bilawsky
The Beatles had it right when they noted that we get by with a little help from our friends. It's a fact that vocalist Mark Winkler can surely testify to. In the wake of losing his husband, Winkler found the comfort and strength he needed through the company he keeps and in the music that feeds ...
Mark Winkler: The Company I Keep

by C. Michael Bailey
The utility of music, at its very core, is entertainment. It is not all about dissonance and consonance, tonal conflict and resolution; heart and intellect, pathos and ethos. Somewhere in everything music has to offer, there must be a smile. It is in music's smile that vocalist Mark Winkler exists. An elegant West Coast mainstay, vocalist/lyricist/composer ...