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Elin: Lazy Afternoon
by Suzanne Lorge
Swedish-born singer Elin (née Kathleen Clelia Elin Melgarejo) moved to the U.S. as a young adult, won a scholarship to study Portuguese in Brazil, and later received her musical training in vocal jazz at the University of Miami in Florida. Eventually the peripatetic singer settled in New York City, and the local jazz scene is all ...
Daryl Sherman: Guess Who's In Town?
by Suzanne Lorge
Vocalist-pianist Daryl Sherman performs every week at the Waldorf-Astoria, playing the same piano on which Cole Porter composed. Sherman is the right player for such a setting and such an instrument; she's a swing musician in the most traditional sense of that phrase. Where many singers seek novelty in the hybridization of jazz with other musical ...
Kate McGarry: The Target
by Suzanne Lorge
Kate McGarry makes full use of her lilting, pitch- perfect voice on The Target, her third release for Palmetto Records. Like many jazz singers today, McGarry culls some of her musical ideas from non-jazz idioms like pop and folk; in McGarry's case, this hybridization of influences expands rather than limits her individual vocal expression. According to ...
Billie Holiday: God Bless The Child: The Very Best Of Billie Holiday & Masters of Jazz
by Suzanne Lorge
Billie Holiday began singing professionally in the early 1930s and toured and recorded until her death in 1959. Her only hiatus from performing came during a 10-month stay at the Federal Woman's Reformatory in Alederton, West Virginia for drug possession in 1947. Her story reveals the symbiosis between personal pain and early jazz, and that story ...
Steve Kuhn
by Suzanne Lorge
On March 27-30, 1986, Steve Kuhn played the Village Vanguard with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Al Foster. This noteworthy gig produced two live recordings, The Vanguard Date (Owl, 1986) and Life's Magic (Blackhawk, 1986). Twenty years later Kuhn reconvened the group for a four-night run in midtown, and the resultant live ...
Aga Zaryan at Joe's Pub
by Suzanne Lorge
Aga Zaryan Joe's Pub, New York City, New York January 11, 2007 Fans stood in the aisles at Joe's Pub on January 11, 2007 to hear Aga Zaryan, a Warsaw-based singer currently touring in the US to promote her second CD, Picking Up The Pieces. The biggest criticism to levy ...
Julie O'Hara: ...Paper Moon & Smoke Rings
by Suzanne Lorge
George Washingmachine/Julie O'Hara ...Paper Moon New Market Music 2006 Julie O'Hara Smoke Rings JOH 2006 Australia-based singer Julie O'Hara hangs out with a very convivial bunch. It's clear from ...
Lady Sings The Blues: The 50th Anniversary Edition
by Suzanne Lorge
Lady Sings The Blues: The 50th Anniversary Edition Billie Holiday with William Dufty Softcover; 231 pages ISBN: 978-0-7679-2386-6 Harlem Moon/Broadway Books 2006 In 1956 Billie Holiday sat down with ghostwriter William Dufty and recounted the story of her life. At times during the 224-page narrative Holiday ...
Nancy King: Overdue Accolades
by Suzanne Lorge
Before her October 23, 2004 gig at the Jazz Standard, singer Nancy King hadn't played a major New York club in several years. She's never been signed to a major jazz label, although she's come close. By 2004 King had been touring regionally and internationally for four decades and jazz insiders knew who she was, even ...
Golda Solomon: Word Riffs
by Suzanne Lorge
Golda Solomon mines language the way an instrumentalist mines a chart. The poet uses speech-song to explore words as percussive and melodic entities; jazz as a cultural force is the topic of her discourse. Word Riffs is an extension of her work as the founder of the Po'Jazz Series, presented monthly at Cornelia Street Café. Po'Jazz--the ...
