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Mark Winkler to Release "The Laura Nyro Project"
Although his last three CDs have placed high on the Jazz Week charts, and his lyrics have been regularly recorded by over 150 singers (including Dianne Reeves, Cheryl Bentyne, Jackie Ryan and Bob Dorough), for his latest work jazz singer and lyricist Mark Winkler has created a new album dedicated to fresh interpretations of the work ...
Cheryl Bentyne & City of Hope All-Star Jazz Benefit: Hollywood, CA, August 11, 2012
by Carl L. Hager
Cheryl Bentyne & City of Hope All-Star Jazz BenefitCatalina Jazz ClubHollywood, CAAugust 11, 2012After kicking off Saturday night's festivities with a hard-charging version of Cole Porter's “It's Alright With Me," a beaming Cheryl Bentyne welcomed Catalina Jazz Club's capacity audience by effusing over the wide array of talent that had assembled ...
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 ...
Sweet Spot
By Mark Winkler
Label: Cafe Pacific Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Like Young; Catch Me if You Can; But Not For Me; Sweet Spot; This Side Of Loving; Somewhere In Brazil (West Coast); After Hours; On Broadway; Jazz is a Special Taste; Some Other Sunset; Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring; Somewhere In Brazil (East Coast).
Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che sfacciato Mark Winkler. Si fa fotografare con un lecca lecca in bocca come se fosse Katy Perry. Ma al contrario della provocante cantante pop, il losangelino qualche qualità nella voce ce le ha davvero. In giro da almeno 25 anni, un'idea di cosa dovrebbe essere la canzone swing l'ha dimostrata: dolcezza, bel canto e tanta ...
Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot
by Bruce Lindsay
Over a three-decade career, singer/songwriter Mark Winkler has released more than a dozen albums, and written songs performed by top vocalists including Randy Crawford, Dianne Reeves and Liza Minnelli. On Sweet Spot he brings together all of that experience, plus some superb musicians, to create a collection of songs perfect for a late night club performance--or ...
Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot
by C. Michael Bailey
For all of his musical bona fides, Mark Winkler is no more a jazz singer than Jim Caruso or Michael Bublé. In spite of the fact that he attracted the best of the best in his sidemen--bassist Robert Hurst, pianist Billy Childs and drummer Greg Hutchinson--for Sweet Spot, he remains something else. The point being, that ...
Dolores Scozzesi: A Special Taste
by Edward Blanco
Whenever the names of legendary vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Edith Piaf are used to describe a new singer, it's clear that there's something special about that artist. Dolores Scozzesi is one such artist, and her unique Mezzosoprano voice separates her from the plethora of female jazz vocalist dotting the landscape these ...
Till I Get It Right
By Mark Winkler
Label: Iris REcords
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Till I Get It Right; 2. How Can That Make You Fat?; 3. Cool; 4. Spring Is Where You
Are, 5. Lowercase; 6. Sissies; 7. In a Lonely
Place; 8. Future Street; 9. Evolution; 10. How to Pack a Suitcase; 11. In the Moment;
12. You Might As Well Live.
Mark Winkler: Till I Get It Right
by AAJ Italy Staff
Till I Get It Right è l'ultima fatica di Mark Winkler. Il cantante, di base a Los Angeles, firma dodici tracce che faranno la gioia degli appassionati della forma-canzone più contaminata dal jazz. Ma non solo dal jazz, perché la voce limpida di Winkler passa rapidamente da un tema dalla melodia accattivante a capitoli dai contorni ...
