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News: Recording

"Golden Earrings" - Testament to Taste, Talent, and Exceptional Chemistry

"Golden Earrings" - Testament to Taste, Talent, and Exceptional Chemistry

Whaling City Sound is excited to bring you this very special collection of music from the late, great guitarist Joe Beck and jazz vocalist Laura Theodore. This intimate and inspired series of duets effectively pays twin tributes. Initially conceived by Theodore as a tribute to the revered vocalist and popular music icon Peggy Lee, whose alluring, ...

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Article: Album Review

Patricia Scot: Once Around the Clock

Read "Once Around the Clock" reviewed by Samuel Chell


This reissue has at least two pleasant surprises: first, the revelation that, before discovering and promoting the gold mine that came to be known as smooth jazz, Creed Taylor was a musician of impeccable taste and discrimination; second, the rediscovery of an original vocalist/pianist who once toiled in piano bars in the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor as well ...

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Article: Profile

Mark Murphy: Inside the Mystery

Read "Mark Murphy: Inside the Mystery" reviewed by Suzanne Lorge


Beyond its stylistic differentiators, jazz contains what vocalist Mark Murphy calls “a wonderful mystery," a mystery that was fostered in small, regional clubs around the US during the '30s-40s, when Murphy was developing the distinctive vocal style that launched his decades-long career. “I've seen this mysterious quality of jazz set rooms on fire," Murphy ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Marcus Goldhaber

Read "Take Five With Marcus Goldhaber" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Marcus Goldhaber: Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Marcus developed a passion for Jazz alongside a 1928 Ivers & Pond upright piano, on which his mother casually played countless standards. Inspired by his upbringing, along with a clear inheritance of the musical gene, Marcus graduated later with a BFA in Musical Theatre from ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Myra Melford: Under The Water (Piano Solo and Duo), Continuation & My Fingers Will Be Your Tears

Read "Myra Melford: Under The Water (Piano Solo and Duo), Continuation & My Fingers Will Be Your Tears" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Satoko Fujii / Myra Melford Under the Water Libra 2009 Alex Cline Continuation Cryptogramophone 2009 Andrew Drury My Fingers Will Be Your Tears Cadence Jazz Records ...

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Article: Album Review

Melody Gardot: My One And Only Thrill

Read "My One And Only Thrill" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The old saying 'stick to what you know' has paid handsome dividends for Melody Gardot, for in writing her own songs she is able to express her considerable talent to the full. With the exception of one non-original, (a Brazilian tinged “Somewhere Over the Rainbow") these self penned songs show that Gardot is a poet bursting ...

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Article: Album Review

Irene Atman: New York Rendezvous

Read "New York Rendezvous" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


Every once in a while, a fresh voice comes along that's worthy of notice. Or, in the case of Irene Atman, it's an experienced voice with a fresh interpretation of classics. When other children wanted to hear bedtime stories or have parents sing them to sleep, Atman sang to herself. By the age ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Irene Atman and Daniela Schachter meet at the Intersection of Joel Frahm

Read "Irene Atman and Daniela Schachter meet at the Intersection of Joel Frahm" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Nowhere in jazz is the soil so rich as it is in the area of female vocals. Major label, independents, melting pots and old school, there are vocal releases appealing to any persnickety taste. Such a diverse marketplace is to the fortune of the listening public. This fortune is magnified when two dramatically different singers share ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Elaine Lucia

Read "Take Five With Elaine Lucia" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Elaine Lucia: Elaine Lucia has been performing and recording for over twenty-five years and has produced three nationally released jazz CDs that have brought her five-star reviews and airplay on jazz station across the country. Her energetic and engaging show has graced stages as diverse as world-renowned Yoshi's San Francisco to festivals, wineries, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Peggy Lee: Basin Street and Beyond

Read "Peggy Lee: Basin Street and Beyond" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Six classic albums from the vocalist Peggy Lee catch her at the height of her powers. One or two of these discs may be hard to find in 2009, but the effort of tracking them down, if successful, will be amply repaid. Peggy Lee Basin Street EastBlue Note 1995


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