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Eva Cassidy: Live at Blues Alley
by Mathew Bahl
When Eva Cassidy died of cancer on November 2, 1996, few people outside of the Washington D.C. area had heard of this shy, young singer/guitarist. Five years later, a posthumously released collection of Ms. Cassidy’s work has sold well over one million copies in Europe and the United States. The reason for Ms. Cassidy’s appeal is ...
Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled
by Mathew Bahl
The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...
Ren: Vertigo
by Mathew Bahl
Few debut records in recent memory have held as much promise as René Marie’s How Can I Keep from Singing?. Any thoughts that the jazz singer might hit a sophomore slump with her second CD for MAXJAZZ are dispelled only seconds into Vertigo. A bold and challenging record, Vertigo subverts expectations while at the same time ...
Diana Krall: The Look of Love
by Mathew Bahl
If you took the time to catch Diana Krall on the road in recent months, you would have seen a talented mainstream jazz pianist fascinated by the possibilities of making music. You would have heard an interpretative singer fully capable of holding a large audience spellbound. And leaving the concert, you would not have suspected that ...
Lea DeLaria: Play It Cool
by Mathew Bahl
Jazz fans can be forgiven for approaching Play It Cool with some degree of skepticism. After all, Lea DeLaria is known for her work as a comic and for her appearances on the Broadway stage neither of which is a breeding ground for jazz musicians. However, this turns out to be one of those cases where ...
Cleo Laine: Live in Manhattan
by Mathew Bahl
Dame Cleo Laine and her husband, reed player John Dankworth, have been working together since the 1950s and have enjoyed a good deal of success in the United States as well as in their native Great Britain. Although Dame Cleo’s career has included stints in the West End and on Broadway as well as dalliances with ...
Chris Connor: Haunted Heart
by Mathew Bahl
There is always a moment of trepidation when a jazz legend produces a new record after an absence of several years; a fear that what is will diminish the memory of what was. Thankfully, that is not the case with Haunted Heart, Chris Connor’s wonderful new CD on the HighNote label. Vocally, the 73-year old singer ...
Mary Stallings: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Mathew Bahl
Mary Stallings belongs to that lost generation of jazz singers whose careers imploded when the rock/folk/pop explosion of the mid-1960s sucked all of the oxygen out of jazz. From the early 1970s onward, Ms. Stallings generally confined her activities to the San Francisco Bay area so that she could raise her daughter. She returned to full-time ...
Jane Monheit: Come Dream With Me
by Mathew Bahl
Two things should have been obvious to anyone who listened to Jane Monheit’s debut CD, Never Never Land. First, Ms. Monheit, with her lovely crystaline soprano and solid musicianship, was a singer with an abundance of raw talent. Second, given her youth, good looks and conservative repertoire, Ms. Monheit’s commercial success was likely to far outpace ...
Carmen McRae: Something Wonderful
by Mathew Bahl
The great Carmen McRae’s tenure at Columbia lasted only two years (1961-1962). Most of her work for the label involved collaborations with pianist Dave Brubeck (her Take Five and his Tonight Only and The Real Ambassadors ). In fact, she recorded only two LPs and a few singles that featured material not written by Brubeck. Her ...
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