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Sets The Standard

Label: V.S.O.P. Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: My Shining Hour; Trouble Is A Man; Star Eyes; Little Girl Blue; These Things; Gone With The Wind; Jitterbug Waltz; Chelsea Bridge; Ask Me Now; I Remember You.

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Doug Webb: Sets The Standard

Read "Sets The Standard" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
March 14, 2016

Doug Webb's newly released Sets The Standard is a textbook case of individual resourcefulness and group consonance in the context of songs often associated with the jazz tradition. For the most part, Webb, who plays tenor, stritch, and soprano sax on the record, puts his assertive, hard blowing persona on hold in favor of a somewhat ...

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Thrush Hour

By Stephanie Nakasian

Label: V.S.O.P. Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: A Good Man Is Hard To Find; Guess Who

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Stephanie Nakasian: Thrush Hour

Read "Thrush Hour" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 3, 2007

Stephanie Nakasian, who has been recording since the 1980s, has released an ambitious tribute to those singers she calls the “Great Ladies of Jazz." On Thrush Hour, the vocalist tries to connect to each of twenty female vocalists, going back as far as Bessie Smith. Arranged in more or less chronological fashion, ...

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Stephanie Nakasian: Thrush Hour

Read "Thrush Hour" reviewed by Suzanne Lorge

by Suzanne Lorge
August 6, 2007

Stephanie Nakasian is a great gift to jazz buffs--and especially to those who love singers. Not just for her exuberant performances but for her ability to articulate in layman's terms what it is to be a jazz singer. Her latest recording on V.S.O.P. Records, Thrush Hour, combines masterful singing, top-notch musicianship, and an educator's expertise to ...

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Meets the Dek-Tette

By Eric Felten

Label: V.S.O.P. Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: You're Driving Me Crazy; Pick Yourself Up; I Hadn't Anyone Till You; I Could Write a Book; I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan; My Time of Day/I've Never Been in Love Before; Broadway; Gone with the Wind; I'll Be Around; It's All Right With Me; Where or When; I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry; This Can't Be Love.

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Eric Felten: Meets the Dek-Tette

Read "Meets the Dek-Tette" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
March 18, 2005

In a tribute to Mel Tormé and Marty Paich, veterans of the West Coast jazz scene gather with singer/trombonist Eric Felten to interpret enjoyable standards in their own sweet way. Felten's clear baritone voice gives the session a smooth texture that proves to be an appropriate homage to singer Tormé. Patterned after Miles Davis' ...

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Frank Rosolino Quintet

By Frank Rosolino

Label: V.S.O.P. Records
Released: 1957
Track listing: Cherry; Let's Make It; How Long Has This Been Going On; They Say; Fine Shape; Fallout; Thou Swell; Tuffy;