Results for "Jay Clayton"

The Peace of Wild Things

By Jay Clayton

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Free Me; Why Because; Sometime; Let It Go; Love Is A Place; Sheila's Dream; Secrets Of Living; The Peace Of Wild Things; No Words, Only A Feeling.

Jazz Vocalist Showcase with Jay Clayton at Crossroads Lounge in Baltimore

November 30, 2009

This Thursday, Dec. 3, internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer, and educator Jay Clayton will present a jazz vocalist showcase in the Crossroads Lounge at the Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys. The live jazz performances for December include a range of new artists and kick-off with Jay Clayton and four talented and emerging female jazz singers. Jay Clayton ...

Jay Clayton: The Peace of Wild Things

by Florence Wetzel
March 15, 2009

Innovative singer Jay Clayton has forged a career out of taking chances and exploring the possibilities inherent in the human voice. The Peace of Wild Things is a subtly adventurous mix of voice, electronics and poetry. Each of the nine songs features a poem; five are by the renowned poet E.E. Cummings, with others by jazz ...

Vocalist Jay Clayton Interviewed at AAJ

January 23, 2008

Jay Clayton's career as a singer defies easy classification. True, she most often sings jazz, but she's also collaborated with two of the most prominent modern composers of art music--Steve Reich and John Cage. Even when it comes to jazz, her palette is nothing if not diverse; she is as comfortable with free improvisation and electronic ...

Jay Clayton: Believing in The Word

by Suzanne Lorge
January 23, 2008

Jay Clayton's career as a singer defies easy classification. True, she most often sings jazz, but she's also collaborated with two of the most prominent modern composers of art music--Steve Reich and John Cage. Even when it comes to jazz, her palette is nothing if not diverse; she is as comfortable with free improvisation and electronic ...

All Out

By Jay Clayton

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Badadadat; Random Mondays; Lonely Woman; 2-5-1; 7/8 Thing; Fragments; All-out.

Jay Clayton: All Out

by Marcia Hillman
March 8, 2006

This reissue of All Out, Jay Clayton's 1980 debut, is a well-done exercise in the voice as instrument. Clayton occupies her own niche, exploring a freestyle, improvisational approach to vocals. She collaborates with Jane Ira Bloom (soprano and alto sax), Larry Karush (piano), Harvie S (bass), Frank Clayton (drums) and Bill Buchen (kalimba), as well as ...

Sound Songs & Point Of View

By Jay Clayton

Label: JMT Productions
Released: 2002
Track listing: Sound Songs: Four Tom-Toms; Goodbye Porkpie Hat; Togi; Joyous March; Somewhere Else ; I'm Nobody; Forgotten Song; Everything Machine; Chrystals.

Point Of View: Square Roots; Blue In Green; Never; Desperate Move; Love And Hate; I Am Waiting ; I Wished On The Moon; I Thought You Knew.

Jay Clayton & Jerry Granelli/Cassandra Wilson (Winter & Winter: Sound Songs & Point Of View

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2002

From 1985 thru 1995, JMT Productions' modern jazz-based record label released recordings by up and comers such as saxophonists, Steve Coleman, Tim Berne, Greg Osby and drummer, Joey Baron, amid a stellar cast of forward thinking artists. However, “Polydor K.K purchased the catalogue in 1995. Thus, all activities ceased as many of these albums and/or CDs ...

Brooklyn 2000

By Jay Clayton

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: You Taught My Heart to Sing; Lament for John Coltrane; Young and Foolish; Raga/Let It Go; I Told You so; The Lady Sings the Blues; I Wish I Knew; Three Free/Random Mondays.