Results for "Nate Birkey"

Nate Birkey: Christmas

by Victor L. Schermer
November 27, 2008

This may be the most laid back Christmas album ever. The more typical holiday records bring to mind sleigh-bells, snowmen, parties, families, caroling, mistletoe, chestnuts on an open fire, and fond memories of past holidays. What comes to mind in connection with Nate Birkey: Christmas are dry martinis, The New Yorker magazine, twilights by the ocean, ...

Nate Birkey: Almost Home

by Victor L. Schermer
August 15, 2008

This laid-back, mostly cool jazz album with echoes of the West Coast 1950s sound also bespeaks a certain dramatic intensity. Further, it invokes a shade of country blues as it goes along. Nate Birkey's trumpet and vocal renditions of both his own songs and some standards are enjoyable to hear, partly because they are strongly reminiscent ...

Water in My Hand

By Shelly Rudolph

Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: If You, Amma, Miles Away, Ripen Me, Just Around the Corner, Boys & Girls, A Song 4 the Kidz, Orfea, Fire, Water in My Hand, So I Lied

Blur Joan

By Joe Woodard

Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Blur Joan; Plaything; Brownie; Ambushed by Serenity; Then Was the Time; babble; Bluer in the Face; Buffoons; Door of the 4/3; Monk's Day Off; Walk Cycle; Sunday Go to Meetin' (Dream on Your Time).

Shortest Day

By Nate Birkey

Label: Birkey Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Autumn Leaves 2. Tennessee Waltz 3. Indelibly You 4. Shortest Day 5. Always on My Mind 6. Abide With Me 7. Recado Bossa Nova 8. Nostalgia in Times Square

Nate Birkey: Shortest Day

by Florence Wetzel
December 5, 2004

Make way for Nate Birkey, a talented trumpeter/vocalist/composer who has been honing his talents in the Santa Barbara jazz scene and is now getting the national exposure he deserves. Birkey's latest release, Shortest Day , recorded live in 2004, showcases his considerable gifts and puts him front and center among jazz's most promising musicians.

Ballads

By Nate Birkey

Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: "I'll Be Seeing You", "Nature Boy", "For All We Know", "Dreaming Of Memphis", "Hi Lili, Hi Lo", "But Not For Me", "I'll Be Around", "My Ship", "I Will Wait For You", "You Don't Know What Love Is".

Nate Birkey: Ballads

by AAJ Staff
September 20, 2002

There is a mystical quality to Nate Birkey that manifests itself in both his vocals and Trumpet style. Birkey has been compared to both Miles Davis and Chet Baker, and his playing has more than a touch of the former and a whole lot of the latter. And Mr Birkey with a nod to his influences, ...

The Mennonite and Ballads

By Nate Birkey

Label: Birkey Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Fool in the Tree; Delirio; Penelope; Before She Goes Away; Northern Lights; Hollow; Song Without Words; Prohibition; The Mennonite; What'll I Do.Collective

I'll Be Seeing You; Nature Boy; For All We Know; Dreaming of Memphis; Hi Lili, Hi Lo; But Not For Me; I'll Be Around; My Ship; I Will Wait For You; You Don't Know What Love Is.

Nate Birkey: The Mennonite and Ballads

by Jim Santella
November 1, 2001

Based in Southern California, trumpeter Nate Birkey has been affiliated with both the mainstream and avant-garde scenes since he finished his studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The leader, who released both albums this year, grew up in Colorado, where he began studying piano at an early age and “fell in love with" his ...