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Veronica Swift

At age 23, Veronica Swift is now being recognized around the country as one of the top young jazz singers on the scene. In the fall of 2015, she won second place at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. In 2016 she was asked to perform a concert of her own at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City and she was a guest artist with Michael Feinstein at Jazz at Lincoln Center with the Tedd Firth Big Band and Marilyn Maye and Freda Payne. Veronica’s first appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center was at age 11 when she performed at the “Women in Jazz” series at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola

Veronica Swift

By Veronica Swift

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: I Am What I Am; Closer; Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me; The Show Must Go On; I'm Always Chasing Rainbows; In the Moonlight; Severed Heads; Je Veux Vivre; Chega de Saudade; Keep Yourself Alive

Veronica Swift: Breaking It Up, Making It New

by Mike Jurkovic
October 3, 2023

Easily on track to become the “Streisand-in-the-mosh-pit" of her restless generation, singer and urban changeling Veronica Swift likes to shake things up and keep things moving. Especially her music. Especially on an album that bears her name. Veronica Swift, her latest. “I want to inspire people to fight against the forces that curb our ...

Elina Duni, Veronica Swift, Maria Pia de Vito, Gabriela Martina & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 30, 2023

Too often we focus our attention on instrumental jazz... in this hour we remedy that by paying special attention to jazz vocalists who excel at surprising and challenging expectations.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter “Freeman Square" SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree ...

Hamiet Bluiett, A Coltrane Interview, Natural Info. Society, Veronica Swift

by David Brown
September 26, 2023

Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz from a historical perspective. This week, let's celebrate the birth anniversary of Hamiet Bluiett; check out John Coltrane ending his time with Miles in an interview from Stockholm 1960; and ...

Fall Harvest - New Releases From Veronica Swift, Hannah Gill, Marike van Dijk, The Diva Jazz Orchestra (Celebrating 30 Years) & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 25, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Thomas Fonnesbaek & Justin Kauflin, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra (a celebration of 30 years going strong), Veronica Swift, Hannah Gill and Marike van Dijk, with birthday shoutouts to Doris Tauber (Them There Eyes, Drinking Again), Helen Sung, Giacomo Gates, Libby York, Amy Winehouse, Champian Fulton, Francesca Remigi and Wesla Whitfield, ...

Veronica Swift: Veronica Swift

by Mike Jurkovic
September 13, 2023

Leave it to the irascibly spirited and octane-charged Veronica Swift to release the party record of the year! From the pure joy scatting of the blast-off opener “I Am What I Am" (from Broadway's grand musical La Cage aux Folles) to the rabble rousing, mad-cap Joan Jett jam with The Ramones finale “Don't Rain On My ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 11, 2023

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world ...

Veronica Swift: Veronica Swift

by Katharine (Katchie) Cartwright
September 1, 2023

Veronica Swift is a masterful jazz singer. Her craft is immaculate. She scats like nobody's business and her texted improvisations are inventive. What's more, she always seems to sing straight from the heart. All that might be enough for some people, not Swift. She is an artistic adventurer who wonders aloud on social media: “What would ...

Take Five with Vocalist Vanessa Racci

by AAJ Staff
August 14, 2023

Meet Vanessa Racci Vanessa Racci is a jazz singer of Italian American descent with a passion for retro jazz and music made famous by Italian Americans. She has recorded two albums (Italiana Fresca and Jazzy Italian) and produces and performs in several shows that celebrate American jazz, Italian American music and their contributions to jazz and ...