Results for "Keith Loftis"

Keith Loftis

46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 8, 2025

46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, OH June 26-28, 2025 Jazz festivals occupy a precarious space these days. Pressured by financial constraints, too many have drifted toward booking artists with only a passing connection to the jazz tradition. Cuts to both public and private funding have only compounded ...

ALIVE

By Monika Ryan

Label: Resensitize Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: 1) Every Day 2) Can You Slip Away 3) You Draw Me In 4) This Morning 5) I Would Like To Know 6) Let's Get Away 7) Tonight 8) I’m In It For Love and Happiness 9) I’m Here 10) Beauty All Around 11) In This Moment Forever 12) WayAway 13) Alive

The Baylor Project at the DC Jazz Festival

by Bridget A. Arnwine
September 8, 2022

The Baylor Project The District Wharf The DC Jazz Festival Washington, DC September 3, 2022 The 18th Annual DC Jazz Festival (August 31--September 4, 2022) closed out five days of music with a weekend of spectacular performances at The District Wharf, an outdoor space teeming with restaurants, shopping and waterfront ...

Catching Up With 2021 Releases

by Jerome Wilson
January 21, 2022

Despite another year of pandemic-related restrictions and limited live jazz performances, there was still the usual flood of new jazz recordings in 2021. Here are a few of the overlooked gems from the past few months that deserve some recognition. Joe Fielder's Open Sesame Fuzzy and Blue Multiphonics Music 2021 ...

Dear Love

By Jazzmeia Horn

Label: Empress Legacy Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Feel You Near; Be Perfect (Vocal Interlude); He Could Be Perfect; He's My Guy; Let Us (Take Our Time); Back To Me (Vocal Interlude); Lover Come Back To Me; Money Can't Buy Me, Love; Nia; Strive (Vocal Interlude); Strive (To Be); Where We Are; Judah Rise; Where Is Freedom!?.

Windmills

By Monika Ryan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Windmills of Your Mind; Cinnamon and Clove; The Summer Knows; I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before; Moonlight; What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?; So Many Stars; Where Do You Start?; His Eyes, Her Eyes; Love Like Ours.

Monika Ryan: Windmills

by Edward Blanco
March 24, 2017

Jazz vocalist Monika Ryan has recorded a series of albums as leader since 2000 with the sensuous and audacious Windmills, a tribute to the lyrics of composers Alan and Marilyn Bergman, one of her latest projects. Voicing a repertoire of beautiful love songs and ballads, Ryan caresses the lyrics of each song with a measure of ...

Involution

By Monika Ryan

Label: Resensitize Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: 1 River Of Music (Prelude) 3:44 2 Storm 4:10 3 Deconstruction Site 4:13 4 Setting My Sails 1:44 5 Life Of Simplicity 4:31 6 Monastery In My Mind 4:28 7 Vulnerable 4:10 8 We're All Made Of Love (Part 1) 3:38 9 We're All Made Of Love (Part 2) 3:11 10 Creative Process 3:07 11 Waiting For Spring To Come 2:25 12 Hello Springtime 5:15 13 Moderation 3:32 14 Peace And Remembrance 4:39 15 Life Is 5:49 16 River Of Music (Reprise) 4:59