Results for "Libby York"

ARTICLE: RADIO November 18, 2019

Moon in Scorpio and Mischief Night

Besides some spooky seasonal fare, this week we focus on new releases from vocalists Carmen Lundy, Michelle Lordi and Carrie Wicks, trombonist Michael Dease and pianist Michele Rosewoman with birthday shout outs to Nellie Lutcher (pictured), Victoria Spivey, Laura Nyro, Bobby Troup, Jane Bunnett, Esperanza Spalding, Brenda Earle Stokes, Allison Miller and Freddy Cole, among others. ...

ARTICLE: RADIO February 23, 2019

Songs to Aging Children Come

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This week we celebrate new releases by vocalist Cyrille Aimee, pianist Betty Bryant, saxophonist Jazmin Ghent and we give a look at some interesting old and new duets of songs by Joni Mitchell, including a new single by Carol Lipnik and Rachelle Garniez in the final hour. Then some shout outs to Barbara Carroll, Etta James, ...

ARTICLE: RADIO September 22, 2018

Love Songs for August

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

"What fresh Hell is this?" We begin with songs by Dorothy Parker, who, though best known for her sharp wisecracks, turned out several luscious standards in her day. In the second hour, we salute the great Count Basie then usher in the Leonard Bernstein centennial celebration; plus there is a bumper crop of new releases to ...

NEWS: EVENT June 13, 2014

Acclaimed Vocalist Libby York Celebrates Release Of Memoir A Personal Take On Standards From Porter To Fagen Tuesday, June 17 At Jazz Showcase In Chicago

York performs with Quartet: Jeremy Kahn, Larry Kohut and Eric Schneider Acclaimed vocalist Libby York celebrates the release of Memoir on Tuesday, June 17 at Jazz Showcase, 806 South Plymouth Court, Chicago. Joining her are pianist Jeremy Kahn, bassist Larry Kohut and Eric Schneider on tenor saxophone and clarinet. Sets at 8 and 10 p.m. $10, ...

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Here With You

By LIBBY YORK

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: I Love Being Here With You; The Day The World Stopped Turning; For All We Know; Walkin' My Baby Back Home; You Go To My Head; A Beautiful Friendship; But Beautiful; Azure Te (Paris Blues); Look For The Silver Lining; The Things We Did Last Summer; Flamingo.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW November 13, 2008

Libby York: Here with You

By AAJ ITALY STAFF

Le cantanti sono sempre alla ribalta e spesso con dischi autoprodotti. E il pubblico sembra apprezzare quella che è ormai una tendenza del jazz odierno. Con dei sideman di tutto rispetto come il chitarrista Russell Malone, impegnato in tre brani in duo, od il cornettista Warren Vaché a farle da controvoce nei brani eseguiti in quintetto, ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW April 19, 2008

Libby York: Here With You

By MICHAEL P. GLADSTONE

Chicago-born Libby York's third album, Here With You, is an expression of her jazz vocal techniques, with more than a little of Chris Connor and June Christy in her delivery. York goes right out on a limb by challenging Peggy Lee's “I Love Being Here With You" as an opener, a tune also associated with Chris ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW April 8, 2008

Libby York: Here With You

By SUZANNE LORGE

Libby York has the rich, rounded kind of voice that evokes another time--a time when it was Rosemary (not George) and there were only two kinds of martini (gin or vodka). York's new CD, Here With You, covers traditional territory with a surety that gives the material renewed relevance: York feels the swing or the bossa ...

ALBUM

Sunday in New York

By LIBBY YORK

Label: Blujazz Productions
Released: 2004
Track listing: Midnight Sun, Sunday in New York, Waltz for Debby, Gee Baby,Ain't I Good To You, Down in Brazil, I Go For That, All My Tomorrows, In the Wee Small Hours, Like Someone in Love, That's All.