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Kitty Margolis: Heart and Soul: Live in San Francisco

Read "Heart and Soul: Live in San Francisco" reviewed by Rich Friedman

by Rich Friedman
February 11, 2004

Wow, this woman can sing. Recorded live on her home turf, Kitty Margolis’ fifth disc, Heart and Soul: Live in San Francisco , skillfully whips her audience into an appreciative frenzy, and most of the excitement carries over to those listening to the disc. Live recordings tend to be either very good or bad—make ...

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Evolution

By Kitty Margolis

Label: Mad-Kat
Released: 2002
Track listing: Anthropology; I'm Old Fashioned; Evolution; Ancient Footprints; Midnight Sun; Nothing Like You; Please Send Me Someone to Love; You Don't Know What Love Is; Firm Roots; Tristesa de Amar; Gone With the Wind; Someone Else Is Steppin' In; When Lights Are Low; Where Do You Start?

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Kitty Margolis: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by William Grim

by William Grim
July 14, 2002

This is an amazing album. There are few jazz singers with the range of expression of Kitty Margolis, a singer equally at home in bop, blues and ballads. Possessed of unerring pitch and flawless enunciation, Margolis can also scat with the best of them. Indeed, her versatility brings to mind Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae. In ...

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Left Coast Life

By Kitty Margolis

Label: Mad-Kat
Released: 2001
Track listing: I Want to Be Happy; It's You; You Just Might Get It; Money; Lonely at the Top; Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year; Devil May Care; Without a Song; Heart's Desire; The Best Is Yet to Come; Take It with Me

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Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled

by Mathew Bahl
December 1, 2001

The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...

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Kitty Margolis: Left Coast Life

by Jim Santella
December 1, 2001

Jazz has a long history in San Francisco. Kitty Margolis, who grew up hangin' at the Keystone Korner, sings about the people who make the Golden Gate city unique. Settled by the Spanish centuries ago and shaken unequivocally by the Gold Rush of 1849, the city has harbored all kinds of people. The last 50 years ...

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Kitty Margolis: Left Coast Life

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2001

If the major purposes - - or at least some of them - - of a jazz singer are to inject a fresh breath into standards and to make sense of newer material, then San Francisco singer Kitty Margolis sits at the top of the class for achieving these noble goals. The West Coast vocalist is ...

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