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Michelle Willis
Prior to launching a solo career, British-born, Canadian-raised singer/songwriter Michelle Willis amassed an impressive résumé through a variety of collaborations and work as a session keyboardist and background singer. She graduated from Toronto's Humber College jazz program, and began performing weekly residencies at piano bars across the city. It wasn't long before she had expanded to become a hired gun for a variety of different acts like David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Laura Mvula, Snarky Puppy, Parachute Club and Zac Brown Band. She came from a family of "let's sing that James Taylor song again" kind of people at holidays
Earth Voices
Label: Empress Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. A Dream Within a Dream (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow)
2. Sonnet 49 (feat. Robin Dann)
3. Here and Heaven (feat. Michelle Willis & Alex Samaras)
4. Birdwings (feat. Alex Samaras)
5. Oh, Life (feat. Laila Biali & Alex Samaras)
6. The Fiddle and the Drum (feat. Lydia Persaud)
7. To a Stranger (feat. Felicity Williams w/ strings)
8. Finis (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow)
Vocalists and composers listed above.
Music arranged by Amanda Tosoff
Celebrate Women's History Month With Birthday Celebrations for Flora Purim, Carol Sloane, Carole Bayer Sager And More
by Mary Foster Conklin
March is Women's History Month and A Broad Spectrum begins another year on the air with the best of women-driven jazz music, past and present. This broadcast features new releases from vocalist Frances Coché, pianist Lara Downes and a single from trombonist Aubrey Logan plus birthday shoutouts to pianist Tomoko Ohno, vocalists Carol Sloane, Flora Purim, ...
Finis
Album: Earth Voices
By Amanda Tosoff
Label: Empress Music Group
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:52
Amanda Tosoff: Earth Voices
by Dan Bilawsky
Building off the lure of language planted in Amanda Tosoff's Juno-nominated Words (Empress Music Group, 2016), this sixth album from the Toronto-based composer and pianist waves poetic in wondrous fashion. Pairing different guest vocalists and collections of musicians with personalized takes on Parnassian beauty of varied sorts, Tosoff cements the bonds between earthly voices and heavenly ...
Becca Stevens on releasing new music in a pandemic
by Leo Sidran
Singer and songwriter Becca Stevens has the ability to make you feel like you know her even when you only know her work. Here she talks about “dancing with the critical voice," looking for silver linings, “the whole money thing" and a newly born pack of baby ducks out her window. Plus she discusses her new ...
See Us Through
Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Home;
It'll Rain Today;
Battlefield (A Letter To You);
See Us Through;
Persimmon;
Trust Me;
Waking Morning;
Solitude,
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