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David Basse: Uptown
by C. Michael Bailey
West Coast singer Mark Winkler (Sweet Spot [Cafe Pacific Records, 2011]) heard David Basse and immediately signed him to his Cafe Pacific Records. Uptown is the first product of this partnership and, for the sake of the male jazz singer, does not come a moment too soon. There exists a huge disparity between female and male ...
Latviaʼs Rigas Ritmi Festival 2012 Now Brings Jazz To The Baltics Year Round
STARTING IN APRIL WITH AN EXQUISITE LINE UP OF INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS SPRING SEASON: April 26 - 28, 2012 SUMMER SEASON: July 4 – July 7, 2012 WINTER SEASON: December 1 - 9, 2012 New York, NY: Rigas Ritmi (“Rigas Rhythms“), the annual jazz festival in Riga, Latvia, is proud to announce the ...
Kate McGarry: Girl Talk
by Dan Bilawsky
While the world has no shortage of fine female singers, few have the musical depth, sense of passion and artistic ambitions of the divine Kate McGarry. It's doubtful that any other jazz singer could convincingly cover The Cars, weave their way through pianist Fred Hersch's take on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and triumphantly match wits, ...
Jose Garcia: Songs For A Lifetime, Live
by C. Michael Bailey
Asking if Jose Garcia is a jazz singer is like asking the same to Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett. The most conservative answer is “no," that they are, perhaps, “popular music stylists." They are the vehicles that introduce and reintroduce the great American songbook to a public craving the high quality craftsmanship of these songs originally ...
Kate McGarry: Girl Talk
by C. Michael Bailey
At a time when it seems that everyone is a jazz singer releasing new music in a male-female distribution of 1 to 10, what is it exactly that separates the merely good singers from the truly great ones. Because of the sheer number of singers and relative high quality of jazz singing today, it is brutally ...
The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is The Beautiful?
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Poetry has always been the libretto of jazz music. Even before epic works of the late Gil Scott Heron like “H2O Gate Blues" or “Winter in America" (which inspired the nations of rap and hip-hop), there was Langston Hughes with bassist Charles Mingus on Weary Blues (Verve, 1958), the great Amiri Baraka, and A.B. Spellman. Then ...
The 11th Annual Jazz Cruise: January 29-February 5, 2012
by Larry Taylor
Tributes to saxophonist Benny Golson and pianist Oscar Peterson highlighted the 11th annual Jazz Cruise, January 29 to February 5, 2012. As well, stellar performances were turned in by an assemblage of over 80 musicians, onboard for the Holland America cruise of the Caribbean. The spacious Westerdam ship was christened in 2004 and is one of ...
Singer Kate McGarry Pays Tribute to Her Jazz Heroines With “Girl Talk,” Due From Palmetto Records April 10
With the soul of a folk singer and the facility of a jazz instrumentalist, McGarry puts her own spin on an evergreen, ever-swinging tradition. “Kate McGarry's sense of musical authenticity is beautifully blended with her always-original musical vision." —The Los Angeles Times Kate McGarry, one of her generation's most individual and influential singers, has earned acclaim ...
Catch Up With Singer/Lyricist Lorraine Feather at All About Jazz!
Like her contemporary Kurt Elling, Lorraine Feather is that rare jazz vocalist and lyricist who reinvents herself with every project. With the February 2012 release of Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media) comes a new self so different that casual fans may not recognize her at first. Some might feel challenged or mystified at first by ...
Lorraine Feather
by Carl L. Hager
Like her contemporary Kurt Elling, Lorraine Feather is that rare jazz vocalist and lyricist who reinvents herself with every project. With the February 2012 release of Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media) comes a new self so different that casual fans may not recognize her at first. Some might feel challenged or mystified by these ambitious ...
