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Laurie Antonioli: A Constellation In The West
by C. Michael Bailey
While vocalist Laurie Antonioli may not be a household name, she is not exactly an unknown quantity. The Bay area native has been singing pre-professionally and professionally since the late 1970s, initially influenced by the diamond songwriting talents of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Neil Young. She took a right turn listening to her grandmother's 78s ...
Nancy King Leads Improv and Duo Workshop in the Languedoc, August 28 to September 4, 2010
Nancy King is one of the world's pre-eminent living jazz vocal improvisers. And she's incredibly fun to sing with. This summer 15 lucky people will be able to experience that in person as she leads a week-long jazz workshop for vocalists and duo artists in the wine-making village of Roujan, in Southern France. The workshop, which ...
Seattle Times: Portland: Top Jazz Festival with New Life
from The Seattle Times: Reborn for its sixth season as the Alaska Airline/Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival, the 10-day event opens Friday and runs through Feb. 22, presenting many of jazz’s most-celebrated artists within a square mile of downtown. The program, dubbed Somethin’ Else this year, celebrates the 70th birthday of Blue Note, the definitive modern ...
Nancy King: Overdue Accolades
by Suzanne Lorge
Before her October 23, 2004 gig at the Jazz Standard, singer Nancy King hadn't played a major New York club in several years. She's never been signed to a major jazz label, although she's come close. By 2004 King had been touring regionally and internationally for four decades and jazz insiders knew who she was, even ...
Live At Jazz Standard
By Nancy King
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2006
Track listing: There's A Small Hotel; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Little Suede Shoes/Day By Day; Everything
Happens To Me; Ain't Misbehavin'; Useless Landscape (Inutil Paisagem); There Will Never Be
Another You; Autumn In New York; Four.
Nancy King at Jazz Standard with Fred Hersch
by Andrew Velez
Nancy King with Fred Hersch Jazz Standard New York, NY May 9, 2006 A definite anticipatory buzz was in the air around Nancy King and Fred Hersch at Jazz Standard last month. It was much like the happy sound a Broadway audience makes upon arriving for the performance of a ...
Nancy King: Live at Jazz Standard
by Jim Santella
Nancy King's duo performance with pianist Fred Hersch on Live at Jazz Standard allows her to share emotional warmth--which she's portrayed naturally throughout a career that spans over forty years--with her audience in an intimate setting. King's personal interpretations of standards and other popular songs have always worked well in the duo format. Her recorded collaborations ...
Nancy King with Fred Hersch: Live At Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
Nancy King is a jazz vocalist who swings for the fences. An all-out scat master, King possesses all of the elasticity of Betty Carter and all of the panache and control of Ella Fitzgerald. Fred Hersch is a pianist's pianist, the finest ballad-oriented player to emerge from the long shadow of Bill Evans. It's a bit ...
Carla Cook: Just a Swingin' and a Groovin'
by Mathew Bahl
On the question of categories, Carla Cook will say this much: “I'm definitely a jazz singer in that I like to improvise and I like to swing." Beyond that, the subject doesn't interest her. “I don't spend a lot of time haggling with the word “jazz,?" she explains. “I let the “Jazz Police" handle that. I ...
Moon Ray
By Nancy King
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Released: 2000
Track listing: Moon Ray; Yesterdays; Twisted; Everything Happens to Me; How High the Moon; Quiet Nights; St. Thomas; Scrapple from Apple; Useless Landscape*
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