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Album

Confirmation

Label: Test of Time Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Introduction; God Bless the Child; My Favorite Things; Inch Worm; Because We're Kids; Confirmation; By Myself; Why Was I Born; Pearlie's Swine.

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Straight Ahead

By Sheila Jordan

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2005

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Article: Profile

A Celebration of Sheila Jordan

by Andrew Rowan
December 2, 2005

In his collection of essays Shadow and Act, novelist Ralph Ellison writes about certain singers, female singers, who have “an uncanny ability to provoke our love. He continues, “Their simplest songs sing in our hearts like the remembered voices of old dear friends. Sheila Jordan is such a singer. The ability to sing ...

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Article: Album Review

Sheila Jordan: Confirmation

Read "Confirmation" reviewed by Andrew Rowan

by Andrew Rowan
June 15, 2005

Sheila Jordan has the purity of heart of a child expressed through adult experience. When she dedicates this 1975 recording (originally on the Japanese East Wind label) to children of all ages, it is real. Confirmation has songs written by Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday (her two greatest influences) nestled alongside offerings from ...

Album

Little Song

By Sheila Jordan

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2003
Track listing: Little Song/Blackbird; Autumn in New York; Barbados; On a Slow Boat to China; Hello, Young Lovers; Fairweather; Something's Gotta Give; If I Should Lose You; The Way He Captured Me; Deep Tango; The Touch of Your Lips; When I Grow Too Old to Dream; Little Song.

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Sheila Jordan: Little Song

Read "Little Song" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
December 3, 2003

There's a lot to be said for experience. That may be especially true for singers. The knowledge of how to get inside a song and really convey the meaning of a lyric isn't something most younger singers, even those with pretty voices (and faces) can do with the skill of a seasoned performer like Sheila Jordan, ...

Article: Interview

Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled

by Mathew Bahl
December 1, 2001

The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...

Album

From the Heart

By Sheila Jordan

Label: 32 Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: The Very Thought of You, The Thrill is Gone, I Concentrate on You, Lost in the Stars, It Don't Mean a Thing, Haunted Heart, Comes Love, The Water is Wide, How Deep is the Ocean?, Japanese Dream/What'll I Do?, My Shining Hour/We'll Be Together Again, Look for the Silver Lining

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I've Grown Accustomed To The Bass

By Sheila Jordan

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2000
Track listing: Introductory Remarks; The Very Thought of You; Better Than Anything; Dat Dere; Mourning Song; The Bird/Tribute/Embraceable You; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Good Morning Heartache; I Got Rhythm/Listen to Monk; Sheila's Blues; I've Grown Accustomed to the Bass.

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Sheila Jordan: From the Heart

Read "From the Heart" reviewed by Mathew Bahl

by Mathew Bahl
October 1, 2000

From the Heart is a compilation CD that draws from three out-of-print albums Sheila Jordan recorded for the now defunct Muse label: Old Time Feeling (1982), Lost and Found (1989), and Heart Strings (1993). While these records deserve to reissued in their entirety, by culling tracks from each album, 32 Jazz has created a perfect single ...