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DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Salutes Woody Herman
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Anecdotes of all kinds about bandleader Woody Herman-- whose centennial is celebrated this year--circulate among musicians and fans to this day. From them, we deduce that “The Chopper" had a straight-razor tongue, wry humor, and less-than-zero patience for disingenuous fan-fawning over himself or his band's celebrity. Even as road-weary big bands faded from the scene and ...
Judy Wexler: What I See
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Judy Wexler has already garnered much attention among the All About Jazz family of critics, having been covered by the likes of colleagues Dan Bilawsky and Nicholas F. Mondello. They both remark on the breadth of Wexler's repertoire, which is impressive. Rather than browbeating us with one more collection of songs inhabiting Scott Yanow's moratorium ...
The Depaul University Jazz Ensemble: Salutes Woody Herman
by Jack Bowers
Were he still with us, bandleader Woody Herman would have turned one hundred years young on May 16, 2013. What better way, then, to mark the occasion than by doing something that made “the Chopper" happier than anything else: swinging hard and often. Chicago's DePaul University Jazz Ensemble does precisely that on this superb album comprised ...
Judy Wexler: What I See
by Nicholas F. Mondello
When they excavated the world-famous La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, scientists discovered an other-worldly array of fossilized treasures. Who would have thought that, millennia ago, in the middle of Tinseltown, saber-toothed tigers and mammoths were sashaying down Rodeo Drive? In an analogous way, What I See from Judy Wexler yields surprisingly terrific finds, primarily ...
Judy Wexler: What I See
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Judy Wexler is more than a mere singer of songs. She's an actress, mood painter, song archaeologist and vocalist par excellence, and those designations shouldn't be taken as independent virtues; they all merge in her marvelous musical pursuits. When I See is Wexler's fourth album, but it only took two--Easy On The ...
Lorraine Feather: Attachments
by C. Michael Bailey
First, there is “who exactly is Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather?" Well, she is the daughter of jazz writer and impresario Leonard Feather (1914 -1994) and Jane Feather, a former big-band singer and ex-roommate of Peggy Lee (ergo “Lee"). The Billie in Feather's name is her godmother, Billie Holiday, and the Jane, well that is obvious. ...
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Album: Attachments
By Lorraine Feather
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2013
Duration: 3:46
Lorraine Feather: Attachments
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
As expertly-crafted and enjoyable as all of her other recordings, Lorraine Feather's Attachments is her most raw and intimate CD to date. Here, she applies her famously incisive perception, sweet voice, and stunning lyrical gifts to a frank exploration of life's major emotional ties, describing how they can soothe, stretch, and break as they wind through ...
Lorraine Feather: Attachments
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Let's get this out up front: Lorraine Feather is a collaborator extraordinaire. Before taking that down a darker path and picturing black op sites, duct tape, and stubbly- faced bad cats, let's spill: take a masterful wordsmith who's also a sublime vocal talent, surround her with highly intelligent soundscapes and wrap with some of L.A.'s usual ...
Judi Silvano: Indigo Moods
by AAJ Italy Staff
Conosciamo da tempo le capacità vocali di Judi Silvano, collaudate in una miriade di contesti a riprova della sua versatilità. Nonostante ciò questo suo disco - che la vede all'opera in un contesto minimalista, insieme al pianista Peter Tomlinson che offre il contesto armonico nel quale poi il trombettista Fred Jacobs colora con poche ed espressive ...
