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Article: Album Review

Michelle Nicolle & Larry Koonse: The Silent Wish

Read "The Silent Wish" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


In The Silent Wish, Australian vocalist Michelle Nicolle collaborates with American guitar virtuoso Larry Koonse in a duo setting that removes all excess, revealing the essence of musical conversation. This recording is both daring and intimate, as it marks Nicolle's entry into a new chapter of vocal exploration, driven by a desire to awaken her creative ...

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Article: Album Review

Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante

Read "Introducing Adrian Galante" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The late Phil Woods used to argue that of all the members of the woodwind family, the clarinet is by far the most difficult to manage, saying it was “designed by six guys who had never met one another." If Australian-born, New York-based clarinetist Adrian Galante has any problems with the instrument, they are in no ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Harry Allen, Rossano Sportiello & Bryan Carter, Elaine Dame, Michelle Nicolle, Jenna McLean, Rachel Therrien & More

Read "Harry Allen, Rossano Sportiello & Bryan Carter, Elaine Dame, Michelle Nicolle, Jenna McLean, Rachel Therrien & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Harry Allen, Rossano Sportiello & Bryan Carter, Elaine Dame, Michelle Nicolle & Larry Koonse, Jenna McLean and Rachel Therrien, with birthday shoutouts to Anat Fort, Eric Comstock, Flora Purim, Jenny Hill and Carole Bayer Sager. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so ...

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Article: Album Review

Judy Wexler: No Wonder

Read "No Wonder" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Judy Wexler's release No Wonder is a portrait in vocal jazz artistry, underscored by thoughtful arrangements from pianist and arranger Jeff Colella and a luminous supporting cast of Los Angeles A-list musicians including multi-instrumentalists Danny Janklow, and Bob Sheppard, trumpeter Jay Jennings guitarist Larry Koonse, bassist Gabe Davis and drummer Steve Hass. The ...

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Article: Album Review

Judy Wexler: No Wonder

Read "No Wonder" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Judy Wexler imbues every song she touches with a sense of realism, wonder and depth that's ever so rare. An inimitable artist, this celebrated singer adds volumes to each story she encounters, be it a post-millennial jazz tune, '60s counterculture anthem, glimmering Brazilian jewel or any number of other finds. In the case ...

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Making It Up As We Go Along

Label: Cafe Pacific Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: I'm Not the Same Without You, I'm Glad There Is You, Unlikely Valentine, Our Game, Tin Tin Deo, Lowercase, Vrohoula, Making It Up As We Go Along, I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before, Make Sure You're Sure, Turn Out the Stars.

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News: Performance / Tour

The 1881 Club In Pasadena Adds Vocal Jazz To Their Popular Jazz Nights

The 1881 Club In Pasadena Adds Vocal Jazz To Their Popular Jazz Nights

The 1881 Club in Pasadena is pleased to announce the addition of a new music series, Vocal Jazz nights, to their live jazz lineup on the first and third Saturdays of the month, beginning January 18, 2025. The 1881 Club is Pasadena's oldest continuously running cocktail bar, established long ago when Washington Boulevard was still an ...

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Article: Album Review

Julie Kelly: Freedom Jazz Dance

Read "Freedom Jazz Dance" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Freedom Jazz Dance from Los Angeles singer, Julie Kelly offers an interesting array of selections that emanate from that musical road less traveled. And, as in life, sometimes that road yields nuggets of delight that would most likely never make it to the tried and “true way." Peter Nero and Carroll Coates' “New ...

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Article: Album Review

Lauren White: Making It Up As We Go Along

Read "Making It Up As We Go Along" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


With this, her fifth album, Los Angeles-based Renaissance lady, Lauren White offers eleven intriguing selections across a range of styles and sources, backed up by some of the city's best. While shrewdly avoiding the tried, true and over-recorded, White uses her subtle skills with taste and maturity. Interestingly, the album plays sequentially as if it were ...

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Isn't It Romantic

Label: Arden House Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: It Could Happen To You; I Remember You; Sunday In New York; You Go To My Head; The Nearness Of You; The Birth Of The Blues; Speak Low; Isn't It Romantic; In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning; But Beautiful; Just Little Loving'; Hallelujah I Love Him So.


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