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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
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 ...
Jackie Ryan and the Larry McKenna Quartet at Chris’ Jazz Café
by Victor L. Schermer
Jackie Ryan and the Larry McKenna Quartet Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA April 23, 2016 Jackie Ryan is acquiring a reputation as a “must hear" vocalist. When this reviewer heard DJ Bob Perkins ("BP with the GM") praise her singing on WRTI, he decided to attend her show at Chris' ...
Working the Rhythm Section: Tom Lawton, Lee Smith, and Dan Monaghan
by Victor L. Schermer
As Duke Ellington's standard goes, “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing." The rhythm section (piano, bass, drums, with guitar and percussion sometimes added) is the core of the typical jazz ensemble. They set the frame for the leader, singer, and soloists and contribute their own solos as well. Even though they ...
Tribute to Prentice “Pete” Douglas at Douglas Beach House
by Bill Leikam
Tribute to Prentice “Pete" Douglas Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, CA October 4-5, 2014 In some ways, for all of us who time and again came to the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay to listen to some of the finest jazz anywhere, the passing of Prentice “Pete" ...
GrandMasters of Jazz
By Jackie Ryan
Label: OpenArt Productions
Released: 2013
Track listing: 19 tracks, 14 songs;COLLECTORS 1 CD &
2 DVDs EDITION includes:
1 CD with 19 tracks, 14 songs
2 bonus DVDs - 90 minutes with
additional songs, additional concerts
20 page Booklet with bios and 27 photo portraits
Liner notes by Will Friedwald
CD - Not to be missed:
CLARK's haunting version of "Topsy"
BUDDY's skillfully creative "Speak Low" and "Liza"
GIBB's virtuoso "Love For Sale" and stunning "Body and Soul" with Jackie's a
cappella intro
JACKIE's luscious "East of the Sun" and "You Go To My Head"
SWING FEVER and GIBB's electrifying "Airmail Special"
DVD - Not to be missed:
CLARK and SWING FEVER's rousing "Swingin' The Blues"
CLARK's vocal antics on "I Want A Little Girl" - one of three best videos recorded of
Clark's vocal classic
CLARK's and JACKIE's mischievous banter on "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm
Gone"
Cheryl Bentyne and Mark Winkler: West Coast Cool
by C. Michael Bailey
In 2010, jazz vocal specialists Cheryl Bentyne and Mark Winkler began a collaboration that resulted in a live show entitled West Coast Cool that they presented at different venues on the West Coast and beyond. Summit Records commits this show to digital with an album of the same title that is something special. While programming a ...
