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Be-Bop at the Bach with Eric Alexander's Quartet and Jackie Ryan, Half Moon Bay, CA
by Bill Leikam
Eric Alexander Quartet and Jackie RyanDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaMay 10, 2009 Considered one of the top jazz tenor sax players of our time, Eric Alexander and his quartet laid down a heavy be-bop style show at the Douglas Beach House (aka Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society) in Half Moon ...
Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: Infinity
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
With The Nature of the Beat (Patois, 2008), trombone virtuoso Wayne Wallace established himself as the musician you'd most like to have living in the downstairs apartment. If you had to have musicians downstairs, that is. The reasons Wallace and his extraordinary band mates would be welcome are essentially twofold. First, their repertoire is ...
Cape May Jazz Festival's 30th Edition
by Sandy Ingham
Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJNovember 6-8, 2008 Fifteen years and thirty festivals since its inception, the Cape May Jazz Festival continues to present a diverse lineup of music over two weekends--in mid-April and early November--each year in this picturesque resort town at New Jersey's southern tip.Fresh faces joined familiar favorites ...
Cape May Jazz Festival, November 6-8, 2008
by Ken Franckling
Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJNovember 6-8, 2008 For 15 years, the semi-annual Cape May Jazz Festival has been offering jazz-and-blues-filled weekends each April and November, to primarily East Coast jazz fans who flock to New Jersey's southernmost tip more for the music than the shopping, the colorful array of gingerbread Victorian houses, or ...
Jackie Ryan: You and the Night and the Music
by Joel Roberts
San Francisco-based chanteuse Jackie Ryan has a smoky contralto, an impressively wide vocal range and an actress' flair for delivering dramatic lyrics. That adds up to a winning combination on this collection of love songs. Backed by a top-notch trio of Los Angeles musicians, Ryan delivers straight-ahead performances of 14 mostly familiar romantic ...
You and the Night and the Music
By Jackie Ryan
Label: OpenArt Productions
Released: 2007
Track listing: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
The Very Thought of You
Something Happens To Me
Bésame Mucho
Let There Be Love
Wild Is The Wind
Moonlight
The Best Is Yet To Come
You And The Night and The Music
You Are There
I Just Found Out About Love
Never Let Me Go
I Know That You Know
While We're Young
Jackie Ryan: You and the Night and the Music
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
On most vocal recordings, singers are accompanied by their usual band, perhaps with a famous guest sitting in for a track or two. If the singer and band are good, the result is pleasing--but when the singer is excellent, the band is a crackling, long-term trio on its own, and the guest is a legend, it ...
Chatting With Jackie Ryan
by Roger Crane
Jackie Ryan is a San Francisco-based vocalist with three excellent CDs available. The most recent two are on Open Art records, the latest is titled This Heart of Mine.All About Jazz: Congratulations on your latest CD, This Heart of Mine. It is an exceptional vocal album and certainly one of the best in the ...
Jackie Ryan: This Heart of Mine
by C. Michael Bailey
The thing that first struck me about this fine recording was the concrete accompaniment provided Ms. Ryan. Solid, effortless swing is what propels this veteran vocalist through This Heart of Mine. The high quality of this swing, which I credit to crack arranging, is that much more a surprise when considering that the arrangements on this recording ...
Jackie Ryan: This Heart of Mine
by Roger Crane
You simply cannot sing a song any better than Jackie Ryan does. And you cannot make a better jazz vocal CD than this one. It is perfect. If that sounds too reverent, let me change the praise to “perfectly wonderful.” Each of the elements is truly wonderful: the choice of songs, the arrangements, accompanying musicians, even ...
