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Berkshires Jazz Announces 2012 Programming, Student Art Contest Winners
PITTSFIELD, MA: Berkshires Jazz, Inc., which organizes and presents festivals, concerts, and other jazz events in Berkshire County, has announced the winners of its annual Student Art Contest, as well as its 2012 season programming. Performance highlights include: a special concert on May 4 at the conclusion of Pittsfield's first “First Friday Artswalk"; the new Berkshires ...
Karrin Allyson: 'Round Midnight
by AAJ Italy Staff
La notte cantata da Karrin Allyson è piena di passioni, di luci soffuse, di amori che vanno e vengono passando per canzoni come “Smile" e “Goodbye". Un grande album, il tredicesimo per la Concord, in cui la Allyson ritorna anche dietro la tastiera del pianoforte e del Fender Rhodes, con autorità. La sua voce malinconica si ...
Karrin Allyson is USA Today #1 CD of Year; Grammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album
GRAMMY NOMINATED FOR BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM USA TODAY's Elysa Gardner has chosen Karrin Allyson's 'Round Midnight as her #1 Album of 2011, in a Year-End Poll of USA TODAY's top critics. It's the latest accolade in a year of extraordinary acclaim for Allyson's stunning CD. 'Round Midnight has been nominated for a 2012 GRAMMY AWARD ...
'Round Midnight
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2011
Track listing: Turn Out The Stars; April Come She Will; Goodbye; I'm Always Chasing
Rainbows; Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most; Smile; Sophisticated
Lady; There's No Such Thing As Love; The Shadow Of Your Smile; Send In
The Clowns; 'Round Midnight.
Take Five With Craig Akin
by AAJ Staff
Meet Craig Akin: Craig Akin is an in-demand upright and electric bassist living in New York City. Between 1997 and 2007, he averaged 270 gigs a year in his musical hometown of Kansas City. There he developed his rhythm and tone while playing or recording with nearly everyone on the jazz and blues scene. ...
Sasha Masakowski and Musical Playground: Wishes
by C. Michael Bailey
The field of female jazz vocals is somewhat bigger than 40 acres...like, a universe bigger. So congested is the musical ether with this flavor of jazz that it is nearly impossible for an artist to carve out a useful niche. Not that a niche is necessary, but it is nice to have some unifying element or ...
Eddie Jefferson: The Scientist of Vocalese
by Ed Hamilton
Detroit once had a reputation as the “Killer Kapital," but things have changed--Dave Bing, basketball Hall of Famer is Mayor and is striving to clean up the city. But 32 years ago, actress Brenda Vaccarro and altoist Richie Cole witnessed the drive-by shotgun slaying of the architect of Vocalese, Eddie Jefferson, at Bakers' Lounge. Jefferson was ...
Karrin Allyson "Round Midnight" Tour Dates
Rapturous, Career-Defining Coverage Runs for Grammy-Nominated Vocalist Karrin Allyson's 'Round Midnight Concord Jazz CD Jumps From #23 to #5 on JazzWeek Charts Coming to Birdland 5/31-6/4 Grammy-nominated vocalist and pianist Karrin Allyson has received rapturous, career- defining coverage from some of the top journalists in America for her understated new album 'Round Midnight. In his lengthy ...
Karrin Allyson: 'Round Midnight
by C. Michael Bailey
Karrin Allyson is a jazz singer's jazz singer. As such she is well-studied in jazz outside of the vocal realm. This particular tool in her considerable skill set is responsible for her command of even demanding material as evidenced on her near perfect Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (Concord Records, 2001) and Footprints (Concord Records, 2006). These ...
Karrin Allyson Earns Early Raves for 'Round Midnight' CD, out 5/3 on Concord Jazz
Grammy-Nominated Vocalist Karrin Allyson Earns Early Raves for Dreamy CD, 'Round Midnight, Out May 3rd on Concord Jazz USA TODAY: “Exquisite Voice and Elegant Delivery" On 'Round Midnight, Allyson weaves an elegant, understated dreamscape featuring 11 songs by some of the most storied writers in jazz, Broadway and pop music, from Duke Ellington to Stephen Sondheim ...
