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Jazz Is For The Birds: An Aviary In Song

by Dan Bilawsky
In jazz--as in all else in life--different words mean different things to different people. The way we associate words or sounds with meaning is unique to the individual, but certain words tend to draw similar thoughts from within the jazz community. Bird" is one such word. Whether you're an avant-garde aficionado, a moldy fig," a modernist ...
Lorraine Feather: The Girl With the Lazy Eye

by Carl L. Hager
While writing the tune Scrabble" for her recently released CD Ages (Jazzed Media, 2010), lyricist and singer Lorraine Feather's songwriting partner, Dick Hyman, had an unusual request that bordered on a dare: could she work the name of the venerable pianist/composer's family friend Dushka into the lyrics? After all, the middle section of his stride composition ...
Beauty & Crime

By Suzanne Vega
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Zephyr & I; Ludlow Street; New York is a Woman; Pornographer's Dream; Frank & Ava; Edith Wharton's Figurines; Bound; Unbound; As You Are Now; Angel's Doorway; Anniversary.
Suzanne Vega: Beauty & Crime

by Ken Kase
Once the public face of a largely over-hyped folk music resurgence in the mid-eighties, Suzanne Vega has remained remarkably consistent. Early in her career, popular successes such as the hits Luca" and Tom's Diner, while padding the artist's purse, have unfortunately overshadowed her accomplishments as a songwriter. Over the years, she would embrace and discard a ...
Dave Douglas: Moving the Music Forward

by David Adler
There aren't many artists who release records two at a time, but trumpeter Dave Douglas has done it already this year with Leap of Faith, a quartet date for Arabesque, and Soul On Soul, a sextet session for RCA Victor which pays tribute to the late pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams. On top of that, ...