Results for "Janis Siegel"

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Janis Siegel - Nightsongs: A Late Night Interlude

By Janis Siegel

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Love Saves (Salva Pantallas); Slow; Love and Paris Rain; If You Never Come to Me (Inutil Paisgem); Marie; You're Mine, You; Sweet September Rain; A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing; Midnight Sun; Lover; Say You'll Go; Clair De Lune.

Album

Nightsongs - A Late Night Interlude

By Janis Siegel

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Love Saves ("Salvapantallas"); Slow; Love And Paris Rain; If You Never Come To Me ("Inútil Paisagem"); Marie; You're Mine, You; Sweet September Rain; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing; Midnight Sun; Lover; Say You'll Go; Claire De Lune;

News: Recording

Dewa Budjana's New Album "Joged Kahyangan" Features Larry Goldings, Peter Erskine, Jimmy Johnson, Bob Mintzer, Janis Siegel

November 17, 2013

Boasting a stellar lineup of modern jazz icons Larry Goldings, Bob Mintzer, Jimmy Johnson and Peter Erskine (and featuring guest vocalist, the fabulous Janis Siegel), Indonesian guitar maestro Dewa Budjana's sixth solo album — his second for MoonJune Records — is a progressive jazz master-class session of huge proportions. Overflowing with moments of elegance, grace, depth ...

Article: Album Review

Janis Siegel: Janis Siegel - Nightsongs: A Late Night Interlude

by C. Michael Bailey
November 4, 2013

Vocalist Janis Siegel is the mezzo-soprano/alto quarter of the Manhattan Transfer as well as half of the female contingency of the same with soprano Cheryl Bentyne. Like Bentyne, Siegel has managed a very successful solo career, releasing ten recordings since 1981. Nightsongs: A Late Night Interlude follows 2006's A Thousand Beautiful Things (Telarc, 2006) and 2004's ...

Article: Interview

Lorraine Feather: I Love You Guys

by Carl L. Hager
October 30, 2013

The great pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk, is credited with the remark that “writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture." But don't dash off and try to authenticate the quote. One, it'll just take you down a rabbit hole, and two, whether or not he ever actually uttered those words doesn't really matter. Because far ...

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Vocal Icon Janis Siegel Releases First Solo Album in Seven Years: "NightSongs"

October 25, 2013

Over the past four decades, the voice of Janis Siegel, a nine-time Grammy winner and a seventeen-time Grammy nominee, has been an undeniable force in music; a founding member of The Manhattan Transfer, solo artist, producer and arranger, Janis is “about as eclectic in her musical tastes as a pop singer can get,” writes The New ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Janis Siegel

by AAJ Staff
October 3, 2013

Meet Janis Siegel: Over the past four decades, the voice of Janis Siegel, a nine-time Grammy winner and a seventeen-time Grammy nominee, has been an undeniable force in The Manhattan Transfer's diverse musical catalog. Alongside her career as a founding member of this musical institution, Siegel has also sustained a solo career that has spawned ...

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Take Five With Cheryl Pyle

by AAJ Staff
October 2, 2013

Meet Cheryl Pyle:The versatile flutist Cheryl Pyle received her BA in Music from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, having received her Associates Degree from Mesa College in 1974. Her teachers included Merrill Jordan, Janet Maestre, Francis Watson, and Jayn Rosenfeld. She took Master classes with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, and James ...

Video

Midnight Sun

Featuring the music of Janis Siegel
Duration: 08:05
September 24, 2013

Janis Siegel. Her new album "NightSongs: A Late Night Interlude." Here, a standout track "Midnight Sun," filmed live during the recording sessions. This classic song was composed by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke, with lyrics by the incomparable Johnny Mercer. Shot in HD at East Side Sound, NYC. The cinematography is by James Fideler.

Article: Album Review

Bob Dorough: Duets

by C. Michael Bailey
June 24, 2013

Is vocalist/pianist/composer Bob Dorough the Mose Allison of Cherry Hill, Arkansas or is Mose Allison the Bob Dorough of Tippo, Mississippi? The two are famously linked by geographic origin: the country South, time period: '50s to the present, and vocation: singing, songwriting jazzmen. The two also share timeless voices, full of Southern dry dust and humus. ...