Results for "Sheila Jordan"

Winter Sunshine

By Sheila Jordan

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Comes Love; I Remember You; Lady Be Good; Whose Little Angry Man Are You?; Dat Dere; Ballad For Miles/It Never Entered My Mind; All God's Chillun Got Rhythm/Little Willie Leaps; The Crossing; Sheila's Blues.

Sheila Jordan: Winter Sunshine

by Marcia Hillman
December 24, 2008

Sheila Jordan has reasons to celebrate: her 80th birthday, a new record company connection and this new CD release, her 21st album under her own name. Taped live at a Montreal jazz club in February of this year, Jordan is joined by a trio of Steve Amirault (piano), Kieran Overs (bass) and Andre ...

Sheila Jordan: Winter Sunshine

by Jerry D'Souza
December 19, 2008

Sheila Jordan has stamped her class as a jazz singer over a career that has spanned 60 years. She has an articulate sense of phrasing and rhythm and she can ad lib at the turn of a note, but it is the emotion she draws out of a lyric that makes her standout. Jordan proves her ...

Sheila Jordan: Winter Sunshine Review

November 15, 2008

Sheila Jordan/Winter Sunshine-Live at Upstairs: Reprising her 76th birthday recording with a set for her 80th birthday, this grande dame of jazz vocal shows about as much signs of slowing down as Marian McPartland. Certainly a survivor with a rich jazz history under her belt, she didnt think shed live to make this recording as the ...

Sheila Jordan Celebrates 80th Birthday with New CD, Performances and NPR Concert

November 6, 2008

New York, NY, November 5, 2008: Don't expect legendary jazz icon Sheila Jordan to stop singing any time soon. “I'll retire when I die," she asserts. “This is what I do and it's been very good to me. I am blessed." Sheila Jordan continues her relentless schedule making her sixth trip to Europe this year with ...

Jazz Vocalist Sheila Jordan Honored in Concert

November 1, 2008

At the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., long-stemmed roses are wrapped in a big red ribbon on the stage, and words like “innovative and passionate" are used to honor vocalist Sheila Jordan with the 2008 Mary Lou Williams Award for a Lifetime of Service to Jazz. Jordan accepts the honor by thanking Kennedy Center artistic advisor ...

Sheila Jordan 80th Birthday Celebration in New York

October 20, 2008

One of the remaining legends of jazz vocals, Sheila Jordan, celebrates her 80th birthday with a series of performances November 18th – 20th at Dizzy’s Coca Cola along with the Steve Kuhn Trio and String Quartet featuring Steve Kuhn, piano; David Finck, bass; Billy Drummond, drums; Mark Feldman, violin; Barry Finclair, violin; Vincent Lionti, viola; Harold ...

Jordon's Genius Closes out Jazz Fest

July 27, 2008

YOU CAN SAY what you want about other jazz artists. But the truth, the absolute truth, is there is nobody like Sheila Jordan. At age 79 (and a half, she meticulously observes), she can still hold a 500-plus audience in pin-drop thrall as she and bassist Cameron Brown did for 90 magical minutes Saturday night in ...

The Water Is Wide

Featuring the music of Sheila Jordan
Duration: 7:18
May 2, 2007

Sheila Jordan: A Life of Honest Expression

by Joao Moreira dos Santos
March 12, 2007

Her voice really cooks but what is the recipe for the way Sheila Jordan picks songs and transforms them into something special and swinging? Well, you take a quarter Cherokee child raised in poverty in Pennsylvania's coal-mining country, you add to it the definitive influence of a genius, Charlie Parker, and mix it all with a ...