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With her serene, spirited tone, emerging jazz vocalist Lucy Wijnands is a dedicated enthusiast of jazz music from its beginnings to today. Now a recent graduate and the Ella Fitzgerald scholar at the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase, Wijnands has been named the 1st place winner of the 4th annual Ella Fitzgerald Vocal Competition. Wijnands has drawn inspiration from Jazz Studies director Peter Malinverni, voice professor Alexis Cole, Ingrid Jensen and jazz icon, Jon Faddis, with whom she has performed at the Louis Armstrong Museum and Jazz Forum Arts, among other places. Wijnands has also received the 2020 President's Award for Achievement for the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music as well as a Downbeat Student Music Award as Outstanding Jazz Vocal Soloist

Album

Swinging In The Holidays

By Songbook Ink All-Stars

Label: Songbook Ink
Released: 2025
Track listing: Baby, It's Cold Outside; Winter Wonderland; Button Up Your Overcoat; Snow; Christmas Time Is Here; Santa Baby; Mistletoe And Holly; That Holiday Feeling; Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; Happy Holidays; Jingle Bells; I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas; Silver Bells; The Christmas Song; We Wish You The Merriest; White Christmas; What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Song of the Day

Button Up Your Overcoat

December 15, 2025

Album: Swinging In The Holidays
By Songbook Ink All-Stars
Label: Songbook Ink
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:06

Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Swinging In The Holidays

Read "Swinging In The Holidays" reviewed by Jim Trageser

by Jim Trageser
December 12, 2025

With a warm, wood-paneled vintage glow, a new Christmas collection inhabits the space formerly reserved for top-flight crooners like Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett: blending pop and jazz into comfort food for your ears. While few of the “next-gen" (as the album's publicity tag puts it) performers here will be known ...

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Vocalist Dani Assis

by Sanford Josephson
June 1, 2024

Vocalist Dani Assis' bio points out that he was born into a musical family. That is an understatement. “When I was younger," he said, “I didn't know there was anything else to life other than music because both my parents were musicians. My mom, Adriana Quadros, is a wonderful singer, and my father, Nanny Assis, is ...

Article: Year in Review

2021: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
December 31, 2021

The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Jazz Day again went virtual for the most part. Singer Tony Bennett put the final stamp on his touring--and likely recording--career after his Alzheimer's disclosure. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was headed to federal prison. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four ...

Article: Rising Stars

Meet Vocalist Lucy Wijnands

by Sanford Josephson
June 1, 2021

Contestants in the fourth annual Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition, sponsored by the Blues Alley Jazz Society, were asked to sing three selections from the 1964 Verve album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book. That request, said Lucy Wijnands, the winner, was “a gift from heaven. Johnny Mercer is absolutely my favorite composer."