01 Mar
Street of Dreams by Eileen Howard
Thursday, 01 March 2007
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Columbus, Ohio-based jazz vocalist Eileen Howard presents her sophomoric album with the just released Street of Dreams containing a host of jazz standards and sev…
Torch Rock isn’t just the title of Wensday’s debut CD. It’s also an apt description of the vocalist’s big, ranging style. While many female singers have been desc…
26 Feb
Different Smile by Kaz Simmons
Monday, 26 February 2007
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Different Smile is a glorious buffet for the ear. Kaz Simmons' hypnotic voice is deliciously infectious. Her arrangements eagerly explore form and meter. This wor…
24 Feb
Return To You by Sara Gazarek
Saturday, 24 February 2007
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Sara Gazarek’s CD Return To You, is about the many moods of love, and explores the many phases of relationships, both heartening and disheartening. Do not make …
Maria Guida debuts this 2007 jazz season with the Larknote Records release of Soul Eyes, a very unique effort parceled up with cool. Two things should come to t…
04 Feb
New Wonderland: The Best Of Jeri Brown by Jeri Brown
Sunday, 04 February 2007
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Even though Jeri Brown was born in St. Louis and refined her singing talent by performing in the United States, she settled in Montreal and continued her singing career the…
29 Jan
Crazy She Calls Me by Dexter Porter
Monday, 29 January 2007
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"Standards" are the life blood of jazz vocalists. The great catalog of songs that are recognized after one stanza gives jazz stylists a seemingly bottomless vat of mater…
29 Jan
They All Come Back by K8 Stewart Experience
Monday, 29 January 2007
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I honestly never thought that I would ever hear a CD (in this case an EP-CD) with both "Autumn Leaves" and Leonard Cohen’s "I’m Your Man" as tracks, but Kate Stewart pro…
22 Jan
Feeling Good by Joe Sample / Randy Crawford
Monday, 22 January 2007
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The collaboration between vocalist Randy Crawford and pianist Joe Sample has always been tantamount to being one of the best musical pairings in contempora…
21 Jan
Beginning To See The Light by Jane Stuart
Sunday, 21 January 2007
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Such a rare elation occurs when one opens a jewel case with unanticipated imagination and raw ability pleasantly enclosed. Jane Stuart allows us that encounter with her …
17 Jan
Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
Wednesday, 17 January 2007
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UK’s exotic beauty Amy Winehouse is a jazz-soul singer with a saucy attitude and the jugular action to match it. Her music has classic jazz infractions that rival Louie …
Los Angeles based pianist Ted Howe lives up to his stellar reputation as a stylish and inventive performer who, above all else, swings relentlessly. The aptly titled …
It is still amazing to me that more people outside of Alberta Canada do not know about the luxurious smooth vocals of jazz singer/composer Sandy Foster. Her recent relea…
March 2007 - Love Song is pianist Ted Howe’s third release for Summit Records. His six arrangements of tunes by Harold Arlen, Cole Porter and James Van Heusen add a …
Monday Off: big band era vocals meet contemporary harmonies. The group's name comes from musical theater's traditional night off. They've played Carnegie Hall a…
09 Jan
Right Where I Belong by Lauren Hooker
Tuesday, 09 January 2007
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Lauren Hooker’s newest entry into the world of jazz is far from mediocre. Powerful in vocals, a positioned flow of acute arrangements, and a vast array of fine selection…
Solstice, the sexy new CD from Slim Man delivers with original material from this exceedingly talented singer/songwriter. Slim Man’s custom bass and sultry vocals ma…
03 Jan
Speaking of Love... by Scott Whitfield
Wednesday, 03 January 2007
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Trombonist and bandleader Scott Whitfield pares things down a bit. Instead of fronting one of his two orchestras (The Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East based in New York …
02 Jan
On The Other Side by The Tierney Sutton Band
Tuesday, 02 January 2007
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Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but happiness appears to be pursued more vigorously than before.... and with less satisfying results. Will Smith’s movie character, the init…
Tony DeSare invites you into the intimate lounge act that unfolds as Last First Kiss, his most recent serving from Telarc. DeSare provides a comfortable mix of fo…
23 Aug
The Sky Could Send You by Sherri Roberts
Wednesday, 23 August 2006
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Sometimes you’ll read a book and wish you were in it, or you’ll see a picture of an inviting vista and imagine yourself being there. That is what singer-songwriter Sherr…
22 Aug
Summer Me, Winter Me by Jan Eisen
Tuesday, 22 August 2006
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Jan Eisen has been a performing vocalist for many years, yet this album is unique for her in that it was recorded, as she terms it, the "old fashion way," with all four …
16 Aug
A Lot Of Livin To Do by Jonathan Poretz
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
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Sometimes Jonathan Poretz sings like Frank Sinatra. Sometimes Jonathan Poretz acts like Frank Sinatra. Sometimes Jonathan Poretz is Frank Sintra. After years of purs…
07 Aug
Summer Me, Winter Me by Jan Eisen
Monday, 07 August 2006
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Jazz Songstress Jan Eisen, with her latest release Summer Me, Winter Me, has created the quintessential jazz experience. This dynamic CD was recorded, according to E…
Elin’s journey began in her hometown in Sweden, where she listened to her parents' record collection, which luckily included some Antonio Carlos Jobim recordings. Inspired …
28 Jul
A Spirit Free Abbey Lincoln Songbook by Kendra Shank
Friday, 28 July 2006
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A challenge to any jazz musician is a competent and plausible yet inventive interpretation of music from the familiar canon of jazz standards. Certainly that challenge d…
23 Jul
Planet Chill: Memoirs of a Jazz Band by L. Zaide
Sunday, 23 July 2006
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ALL THE TIME one hears of the archetypical singers - Ol' Blue Eyes, Lady Day, Ella, Anita (O'Day), Tony, Joe Williams.... all well and good, yet Chet Baker hardly ever g…
21 Jul
A Little Travelin Music by Russ Lorenson
Friday, 21 July 2006
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There is nothing wrong with a little bit of Tony Bennett. Vocalist Russ Lorenson is proof that a little bit of Bennett can really do a lot.The combination of "Com…
19 Jul
A Greater Love by Nancy Donnelly
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Jazz vocalist Nancy Donnelly is a taste of the old school of jazz, when vocals counted for something. Her voice carries you off to the jazz and swing clubs of the 30s an…
18 Jul
So In Love With You by Rosie Carlino
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
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The daughter of a radio singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rosie Carlino sings as if she was weaned on Dinah Shore, Lena Horne, Kay Starr, and Mary Martin. Her voca…
Ron Kaplan performs nine standards on Lounging Around, an album that originally had limited distribution, mostly at live performances. Recorded in 1999, the CD has b…
14 Jul
SongSpirit by Sathima Bea Benjamin
Friday, 14 July 2006
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SongSpirit is a solid 12-song compilation from vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. The CD draws from her 40-year career, with material dating as far back as 1963 and as r…
Haunted Heart is a wonderful debut album by New York City-based singer/songwriter Sarah Lynch. Lynch, a classical singer with a Masters degree in piano performance, …
10 Jul
There and Back Again by Tracy-Kash Thomas
Monday, 10 July 2006
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Accomplished flutist, songwriter, singer, Tracy Kash Thomas has done it again, with the release of her latest CD, There And Back Again, shows her vocal skills, expre…
10 Jul
All The Things You Are by Patrizia -The Sultry Lady of Jazz
Monday, 10 July 2006
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OK. Aretha Franklin is the queen of soul; and Nina Simone is the high priestess of soul. So, Patrizia can be the sultry lady of jazz if she wants to be. Why not? She's g…
09 Jul
Breath of the Soul by Ellen Honert
Sunday, 09 July 2006
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This is a brilliant new album from Ellen Honert, who seems like a fresh new breath on the American Jazz scene. She hails from Amsterdam and now lives in the U.S. The…
Torch singer Tim Camponeschi (aka Slim Man) serves jazz vocals in highballs of cocktail/lounge music liken to Michael Bubble and Tony Bennett on his eighth studio album …
06 Jul
You Stepped Out Of A Dream by Kate Paradise
Thursday, 06 July 2006
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"Mean To Me" is on my CD player and on my CD player. Then it's on my CD player again. Paradise went to the University of Miami School of Music. There's a live cut on her…
06 Jul
Afraid of the Heights by Leonisa Ardizzone Quartet
Thursday, 06 July 2006
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Leonisa Ardizzone is the Ted Weems of modern jazz. But she doesn't lie on a couch and whistle which everyone thought Weems did. She swings and sways but not like Sammy K…
05 Jul
Grady Tate: From The Heart by Grady Tate
Wednesday, 05 July 2006
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Grady Tate is a well known jazz and blues drummer whose work has graced an endless list of recordings. Tate has a brand new bag here as a singer. He sings Governor Jimmy…
When you listen to Sherris thoughtful way with a vocal line or her vibrant sense of swing or her effortless embodiment of a song's emotion it's har...
Recipient of the "Most Influential African-American in the Bay Area" Award 2005 for Entertainment, Kim Nalleys highly anticipated CD "She Put A Spe...
Since his breakout club debut in 2005, Lorenson has quickly established a reputation as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading interpreters of...
Born to singer mom-Carmen Revelle-who performed with the house band at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Benita Hill has the music of the late 1940’s...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or maybe it’s the other way around. In either case, with Innocent Of Nothing, Marilyn Scott’s ...
Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) merges singing, songwriting, and poetry-rap in a way that’s unique in jazz. While reaching a broad range of listeners, Lisa...
Jazz singer Tim Camponeschi (aka Slim Man) serves jazz vocals in highballs of cocktail/lounge music liken to Michael Bubble and Tony Bennett on his eighth studio album
Jimmy Scott is a true original. From the time he first recorded with the Lionel Hampton Big Band, Scott deconstructed songs with such heart-rending drama that listeners had…
There is a rising jazz star from Kansas City, Miss DJ Sweeney. Her debut self-titled CD is a beautiful blend of the classic standards being presented in a new, fresh voc…
28 Jun
The Moment After by Marcus Goldhaber
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
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Marcus Goldhaber appears to be a nice enough guy. He certainly cherishes childhood memories and the times that his family gathered around the piano and sang standards witho…