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Retta Christie

Retta Christie has staked a claim to a fabulously rich but oft-overlooked vein of Americana, a musical mother lode located at the dusty crossroads where the American Songbook and the country-western canon converge. A vocalist with a light twangy timbre, breezy sense of swing, and a gift for conveying the emotional essence of a lyric, Christie delivers an eagerly anticipated second volume of her collaboration with reed expert David Evans and piano legend Dave Frishberg (who’s responsible for one of the American Songbook’s most witty chapters, though that facet of his work isn’t represented here)

Retta Christie with David Evans and Dave Frishberg

By Retta Christie

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010

Birdie Leigh: In A Silky Mood

by C. Michael Bailey
September 22, 2010

In A Silky Mood is very much a sampler disc, showing off the considerable wares of one Birdie Leigh. The vocalist joins Retta Christie (Retta Christie with David Evans and David Frishberg: Volumes 1 and 2) and Lawrence Lebo ( Lawrence Lebo: Rhythm and Roots) in addressing American Music in a very stripped down fashion. Leigh ...

Retta Christie with David Evans and David Frishberg: Volumes 1 and 2

by C. Michael Bailey
August 6, 2010

Vocalist Retta Christie exists at the curious intersection of country & western, swing and film music. Country music and jazz may seem strange bedfellows, but bedfellows they have been since the 1920s and bandleaders Spade Cooley and Bob Wills, Jay McShann and Count Basie all slumming together in Great Plains dance halls. It is from this ...

Retta Christie: Retta Christie with David Evans and Dave Frishberg

by C. Michael Bailey
August 4, 2010

Many saxophonists also double on clarinet, some notable examples being Lester Young, Art Pepper and Phil Woods, as well as the converse in Eddie Daniels, Don Byron, and Victor Goines. The two reeds complement one another by informing the performance of a player talented enough to play both. Young, who played a vibrato-less tenor with perfect ...

New CD by Retta Christie + Dave Frishberg and David Evans Due 5/18

April 26, 2010

Retta Christie makes American music to be enjoyed. If the Portland vocalist has a heartfelt reaction to a song, she sings it her own way, regardless of the style or tradition whence it came. She draws on Western swing, jazz, country and western, and the Great American Songbook and makes all of it her own. Christie's ...