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Al Jarreau
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July 2004 - Singer Al Jarreau has been known as a pop singer, a soul singer and a blues singer. However, for the longest time, he has always wanted to show that he is a jazz singer as well. His newest dynamite release Accentuate the Positive brings Jarreau into the jazz idiom with a style all his own. He...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Al Jarreau
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- Al Jarreau is synonymous with great vocal acrobatics and a velvety smooth tone that makes people of all listening experiences equally enjoy his music. His latest CD, “All I Got” (Verve 2002) proves Al has a lot to offer any music fan of the contemporary music scene. With Jarreau’s acute sense of understanding of what works, and the ability...
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Artist Interview by Ron Miller
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Ingrid Jensen
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February 2006 - Trumpet virtuoso Ingrid Jensen and I both dissolved into laughter as she responded to my question concerning how much of a role she played in the production of her new CD At Sea. "I paid for it all," she says and then there is this big pause. Jensen continues, "There would have been no product had I not opened...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Ingrid Jensen
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- There's a cool wind in Nanaimo in
Northern Vancouver that seems to blow a steady stream of talented women into
the world of jazz. Ingrid Jensen is one of these extraordinary women. The
gifted, critically acclaimed, hard bop trumpeter gained international
recognition in 1995 with the release of her first CD on Enja entitled "Vernal
Fields." This was the...
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Artist Interview by Suzi Price
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Gail Jhonson
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- Gail Jhonson is a lady who knows what she likes and how she wants it done. As a solo R&B/funk keyboardist, such abilities have served her well to establish herself as a neo-soul artist and enable her to release her latest CD Pearls, which features collaborations with Marion Meadows, Paul Brown, and Norman Brown. Jhonson has also established herself as...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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ellen johnson
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- “I don’t paint, so I guess in my music I try to paint (using) words and sounds. People have made mention that with this CD (These Days) they hear all these subtleties and nuances. I do that on purpose because I am not just trying to sing a song, I am trying to add colors to it with my...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Anna Marie Jopek
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November 2004 - "Anna is original, unique, different. She’s brave, she's modest, she’s open. She's a great musician. What she's been doing all her life is just trying to play the best notes. Trying to sound good. In that particular sense she's a lot like me and that's why I decided to work with her. Because she just cares for the music"....
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Jackiem Joyner
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- Saxman Jackiem Joyner has moved from being a sideman to center stage. He says, "As a musician, you always start off as a sideman. I've been on the road with Ronnie Laws and he influenced me. I think his jazz chops are really great. I picked up a few licks here and there from him, and I also liked...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
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- Violist and violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch is a rarity in the world of music, as she has the ability to combine the abilities to create sophisticated compositions with strong elements of classical music, with her fondness for improvisation that reflects her love of jazz music. Earlier the gifted composer/musician united with pianist/harmonium player Myra Meldford and released Heart Mountain, a...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Darrell Katz
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- The Same Thing, the new release by composer/musician Darrell Katz and the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra utilizes Katz’s skills as a leader, a musician, and an educator. He explains how the music for the recording came together.
Jazzreview: What inspired the music for The Same Thing? Where did these songs come from?
Katz: The material on The Same Thing, except for...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Roger Kellaway
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- It is not very often that you have an opportunity to speak with a music icon as celebrated as Roger Kellaway and it is even less often that you get to talk to him on his birthday (67th). I had the opportunity to do both recently and found the pianist/composer to be one of the more congenial people that...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Roger Kellaway
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February 2005 - Roger Kellaway’s new solo piano recording coincided with the release of the film
biography of Bobby Darin, Beyond the Sea. The recording, titled I Was There –
Roger Kellaway Plays From the Bobby Darin Songbook (IPOC1006), features tunes
that Kellaway performed with Bobby Darin when he was Darin’s musical director
in the late 1960s, and is available at CD retailers around the country...
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Artist Interview by Carla & Jason Rupp
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Nancy Kelly
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June 2006 - Nancy Kelly’s refined vocal style is a study in phrasing, style and the ability to swing. Kelly’s powerful singing has captured many awards and the ears of many jazz fans around the globe. With a new CD that continues to demonstrate why critics have called Nancy Kelly “the real deal,” Kelly is back and keeping the jazz world swinging.
JazzReview:...
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Artist Interview by H. Allen Williams
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Grace Kelly
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June 2006 - Comedian Bill Cosby said, “Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.” There seems to be a young prodigy born every minute and a record label circling in search of its next savior to record. Barely a release or two are issued and their careers are deflated due to insufficient sales and...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
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Ken Peplowski
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- This is the best of times for jazz musician Ken Peplowski, renowned clarinet and tenor sax player. So good in fact, it was difficult for him to find time to talk by phone in June. Having just returned from playing dates in Italy, he was in the midst of performing in New York’s JVC Jazz Festival, and cutting a...
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Artist Interview by Larry Taylor
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Stacey Kent
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October 2006 - Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson have been making music together for 15 years. Their latest collaboration has the celebrated jazz singer making a special guest appearance on husband and saxophonist Tomlinson’s The Lyric. The effort has resulted in no less than album of the year honors at the 2006 BBC Jazz Awards.
“This album was pure joy,” said Kent,...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Stacey Kent
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March 2004 - Discovering a talented new artist is like discovering an uncharted island. It’s exciting, but you’re torn between sharing the secret with others, or keeping it all to yourself. Stacey Kent is an internationally respected jazz/pop singing sensation and with her latest album, The Boy Next Door (Candid Records) she’s not going to be a well-kept secret much...
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Artist Interview by Jeff Winbush
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Stacey Kent
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- Stacey Kent’s ability to get into the heart of a song—and into the hearts of
her listeners is slowly becoming evident, not only among jazz enthusiasts, but
also among the general listening public. Defying the sometimes stultifying
need to categorize music, Kent instead places the emphasis of her music upon
its ultimate objective: touching a place of inexpressible meaning...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Dwayne Kerr
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- Nu-soul singer Erykah Badu says about flutist Dwayne Kerr, “As I watch my friend in amazement, the high tones and the trills become part of me, helping me to grow on stage. I don’t know which is sweeter, his tone or his soul.”
Who is this man that has made such an impression on Erykah Badu you might be asking...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Nancy King
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July 2006 - The rest of the world is finally catching up to Nancy King.
The respected, yet underrated, jazz singer is on the charts with two CDs. She appears on Karrin Allyson’s No. 1 album, Footprints, and King’s own Live at Jazz Standard was recently No. 23 on the charts and climbing.
The success is an overdue nod to an artist who...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Jesse King
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- Jazzreview.com: What prompt you to contact
jazzreview.com?
Jesse King: I initially contacted Morrice
(publisher of jazzreview.com) because he has a really great laid out site, with
a lot of good contacts and I thought it would be great if we looked into doing
something with each other to help promote each other's
site.
Jazzreview.com: It's a practice more people need to...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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David Klein
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- When an artist produces an incredibly superior album, it is not only the result of exceptional talent coming together in the performance thereof, but from a passion deep within that inspires remarkable results. Such is the case with David Klein’s latest CD, “My Marilyn,” a stunning jazz tribute to Marilyn Monroe.
Begin with the passion, combine the...
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Artist Interview by Unknown User
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Gladys Knight
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September 2006 - Gladys Knight is one busy lady. In addition to her concert performances, she is planning a concert tour to publicize her new CD, Before Me. She directs a Grammy award-winning church choir that will also have a new CD for the upcoming holiday season. When she’s not on the road performing, she’s in her new farmhouse redecorating, or traveling...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Simone Kopmajer
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- April 2005 – At the tender age of 22, Austrian vocalist, Simone Kopmajer (pronounced Cop-myer), possesses a voice of incredible depth. Unlike the current staple of young pop singers being groomed for instant accessibility, Kopmajer’s approach to a song is understated sincerity. Her new album, “Romance” hits American shores on May 3rd.
Since she resides in her homeland, our...
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Artist Interview by Lawrence Williams
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Sofia Koutsovitis
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- When Grammy Award winning composer, bandleader and pianist Maria Schneider invites you to tour with her, you seize the opportunity and that is exactly what Argentine vocalist, musician and composer Sofia Koutsovitis did. The native of Buenos Aires now living in New York City recently concluded a European tour with Schneider. Concerts were performed in Portugal, Spain, Austria, France...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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