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Veronica Swift: Veronica Swift

by Katchie Cartwright
September 1, 2023

Veronica Swift is a masterful jazz singer. Her craft is immaculate. She scats like nobody's business and her texted improvisations are inventive. What's more, she always seems to sing straight from the heart. All that might be enough for some people, not Swift. She is an artistic adventurer who wonders aloud on social media: “What would ...

Introducing Yasuhiro Yoshigaki's Orquesta Libre

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 18, 2013

Japanese drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki is one of the most influential drummers in the left-off-center alternative music scene in Japan. A close collaborator of sound sculptor Otomo Yoshihide, included in all incarnations of Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet/Ensemble/Orchestra, and member of the groups Emergency! (with Yoshihide), Altered States (with guitarist Uchihashi Kazuhisa), Rovo (with violinist Yuji Katsui, former ...

How Wall-E Met Hello Dolly

July 4, 2008

Two songs from the movie musical help Pixar's robot express his romantic feelings. I'm still blown away by the fact that two songs of mine that are close to 50 years old have been used as the underpinning, -Jerry Herman In high school, “Wall-E" director Andrew Stanton played the shy Yonkers store clerk Barnaby ...