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Rachel Z: Everlasting
by Javier AQ Ortiz
If one has little sympathy for the jazzification of popular music, low tolerance for jazzified swinging musicality for its own sake, outright disgust for anything other than scorching tempos or abstraction for its own sake, derision for space and breaths of cooled musical air between the polarities of accessible depth and potent fragility, then one should ...
Rachel Z: Everlasting
by John Kelman
Deconstructing popular contemporary songs seems to be the current flavour of the month. From the Bad Plus' rock-heavy interpretations of the Pixies to Brad Mehldau's inventive look at Radiohead, artists are realizing that not only is there a wealth of modern material out there to replace the Great American Songbook, but the approach has resulted in ...
Rachel Z Shocks the Bunny
by Mike Brannon
Ok, quick...name all the artists you can think of with a last name starting with Z. Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet...but they're all in the Zappa family, right? Ok, Zamfir, if you've really gotta go there. Well, now there's another worthy of that elusive 26th letter... pianist/keyboardist Rachel Niccolazzo or Rachel Z, for short. Numbered among her many ...
Rachel Z: On The Milky Way Express
by Mark Corroto
Rachel Z is a lot shorter than I expected her to be. The former Ms. Nicolazzo, henceforth the ‘Z,’ should be taller, much taller, a height equal to her ambitious sound. The once classical piano student turned jazz pianist, graduated from the New England Conservatory and set about playing music both inside and outside the jazz ...
Room Of One's Own
By Rachel Z
Label: NYC Records
Released: 1996
Track listing: Artemisia; The Trail Of Her Blood In The Snow; Room Of One's Own; Dance Of The Lioness Club; Feel The Power; Gently Sleeps The Pear Tree; Set Her Free; For The Concubine; Talking To Electrons; Ship Of Tears;
