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Vocalist/Pianist Patty Wicks: 1945-2014
Vocalist and pianist Patti Wicks, who divided her jazz life between New York and Florida for the past 40 years, recording several well-considered albums since the turn of the new century, died from heart failure March 7 in West Palm Beach, Fla. She was 69-years old. Wicks belonged to that rarefied group of performers that include ...
Kate Reid: The Love I’m In
by C. Michael Bailey
Dr. Kate Reid is a faculty member of the Fine Arts department of Cypress College in Southern California. However, Reid is no stuffed shirt, ivory tower type. No, she is a living, breathing, practicing jazz singer, one who holds on to tradition loosely, having fun with the music she performs. She belongs to that treasured group ...
Cat Conner: Cat Tales
by C. Michael Bailey
Cat ConnerCat TailesSelf Produced2011 One of the greatest jazz performance challenges is playing and singing ballads slow...sometimes called “calendar slow." The trick is playing slowly without dragging or stalling. It is simple physics, the difference between velocity and momentum. Simple tempo may be understood in terms of ...
Various Artists: Jazzvox Presents: In Your Own Backyard
by C. Michael Bailey
Nich Anderson is a Northwest coast jazz vocalist and jazz vocals champion who has been bringing jazz vocal talent to his “house concerts" in Washington State for the past 10 years. Anderson and Origin Records' house presence Bill Anschell have produced a recording documenting some of this talent. The result is a collection of duets and ...
Patti Wicks's Jazzy Turn at the Metropolitan Room
The jazz singer and pianist Patti Wicks is all about rhythmic deconstruction. Like the much-missed Carmen McRae, Ms. Wicks, who appeared at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening with the bassist Linc Milliman, scrutinizes songs with a raised eyebrow. Words and phrases are dismantled with a wry deliberation and an improvisatory boldness that put a question ...
Dedicated To...
By Patti Wicks
Label: Geco Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Song is You; The Very Thought of You; Laura; Little Girl Blue; I Remember You; Emily; My One and Only Love; You're Getting to be a Habit; Lela.
It's a Good Day
By Patti Wicks
Label: Geco Tonwaren
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Everything Happens to Me (M. Dennis - T. Adair) - 4:47; 02. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (R. Rodgers - L. Hart) - 5:07; 03. Giant Steps (J. Coltrane) - 5:12; 04. It's a Good Day (P. Lee -
S. Burke) - 2:48; 05. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You (V. Young - B. Crosby - N. Washington) - 4:32; 06. I Believe in You (F. Loesser) - 3:32; 07. I Wish You Love (A. Beach - C.
Trenet) - 4.52; 08. My Romance (R. Rodgers - L. Hart) - 3:42; 09. Canto triste (E. Lobo - L. Hall) - 3:47; 10. Easy to Love (C. Porter) - 3:24; 11. Once in a While (B. Greene - M. Edwards) -
5:17; 12. It's a Good Day (P. Lee - D. barbour) - 2:25.
The Jazz Session #106: Patti Wicks
Pianist and vocalist Patti Wicks teams up with her Italian trio bassist Giovanni Sanguinetti and drummer Giovanni Gulino and guest saxophonist Scott Hamilton for Dedicated To (Geco Records, 2009). In this interview, Wicks talks about how she dealt with her childhood visual impairment and learned to play by ear; her college days at the Crane School ...
The State of Piano Playin' Jazz Singers 2009: Brenda Earle and John Proulx
by C. Michael Bailey
There exists in jazz vocals a sub-specialty, those artists who regularly double on an instrument, most often the piano. There are many notable pianist/singers recording, including Patricia Barber, Dena DeRose, Patti Wicks, Harry Connick Jr., Peter Cincotti and Tony DeSare. That is a heady bunch, to be sure. Brenda Earle and John Proulx can now be ...
Patti Wicks Trio: Dedicated To...
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist/singer Patti Wicks started out in New York City, moved to Florida and then each year or so since 2004 has rendezvoused with her Italian rhythm section of bassist Giovanni Sanguineti and drummer Giovanni Guillino in Italy to record successful trio sessions supplemented with a horn, typically a saxophone. For 2005's Basic Feeling (Studiottanta-Fortuna), Wicks was ...
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