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Tessa Souter: Nights of Key Largo
by Suzanne Lorge
Tessa Souter excels at creating mood and on her new CD, Nights of Key Largo, that mood is one of a relaxed intimacy: She never strains to emote, never pushes a note, never rushes a phrase. Her material--13 songs about moonlight, sand and romance--lends itself to this kind of laid-back treatment, reminding the listener that there ...
Max Raabe: Heute Nacht Oder Nie
by Suzanne Lorge
In November 2007 German singer Max Raabe performed at Carnegie Hall with the Palast Orchester, presenting a half-English, half-German program of songs from the golden years of Weimar Germany. The resulting recording--Heute Nacht Oder Nie (Tonight Or Never)--has spurred a flurry of activity both in the States and abroad, and Raabe has been on the road ...
The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide
by Suzanne Lorge
The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide Scott Yanow Paperback; 264 pages ISBN: 0879308257 Backbeat Books 2008 Gosh, there are a heck of a lot of jazz singers out there. More than 700 at least, according to Scott Yanow, who takes on the daunting task ...
Deborah Latz: Lifeline
by Suzanne Lorge
Deborah Latz is a bold singer with a strong sense of her own musical identity. So sure-footed is she that it's hard to imagine her needing a lifeline--she's more the type to throw one to the sinking. Lifeline does just that--the 14 tunes pull the listener into Latz's fast-moving ship as it skims across her repertoire ...
Litchfield Jazz Fest 2008
by Suzanne Lorge
Litchfield Jazz Festival Goshen Fairgrounds Goshen, Connecticut August 1-3, 2008 No doubt that Litchfield Hills in northwest Connecticut is some of the prettiest terrain within a two- hour drive of Manhattan. The region attracts all sorts of visitors--antique buyers, wine tasters, history buffs and, for more than a decade, ...
Cassandra Wilson: Loverly
by Suzanne Lorge
When Cassandra Wilson played New York's Blue Note Jun. 9th, she let her band jam a long time before she stepped into the heavy mix of groove and musical jest among the instrumentalists. The room was sweltering because of the day's heat and the seemingly absent air conditioning, but Wilson never broke a sweat. Wilson always ...
Cassandra Wilson: Jazz Roots
by Suzanne Lorge
Over the last two decades Cassandra Wilson has emerged as one of the most celebrated jazz singers in the world--and with one album a year since 1985, she also ranks as one of the most prolific. Because of her openness to experimentation with grooves and repertoire, Wilson's work over the years has expanded our definition of ...
Libby York: Here With You
by Suzanne Lorge
Libby York has the rich, rounded kind of voice that evokes another time--a time when it was Rosemary (not George) and there were only two kinds of martini (gin or vodka). York's new CD, Here With You, covers traditional territory with a surety that gives the material renewed relevance: York feels the swing or the bossa ...
Carolyn Leonhart and Wayne Escoffery: If Dreams Come True
by Suzanne Lorge
Singer Carolyn Leonhart and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, a couple both on and off the bandstand, completed a smooth run at New York's Smoke the weekend of Valentine's Day 2008, highlighting the title cut from If Dreams Come True along with some well-written originals and some intelligently reworked standards. Theirs is a sweetly romantic tale: The couple ...
Roberta Gambarini: You Are There
by Suzanne Lorge
Grammy-nominated vocalist Roberta Gambarini has been working with pianist Hank Jones since 2001, when the pair first met and performed together at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival at the University of Idaho. Since then she's toured the world with Jones and his sidemen, George Mraz on bass and Willie Jones III on drums. Live ...
