Jazz Vocals - CD Reviews (1352)
The evolution of jazz has taken many complicated and unexpected turns.... but there are many things that were meant to stay the same. Jazz vocals fall into the latter ca…
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Linda Ciofalo has a voice that reaches out and grabs you. You just have to pay attention. Her vocal talent is among the best heard today. She is in great company, as much o…
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Annie Sellick goes out on a tall limb and boldly says "Nana Nana Boo Boo, I’m doing something completely different." She hooks up with the Nashville-based Hot Club Band …
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Jazz vocalist Linda Ciofalo’s music is as pretty as the images of the singer that grace the liner notes of her CD Sun Set. She is not about bop, nor is she going …
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Grammy nominated songstress, Jane Monheit, returns with her seventh CD chock full of romantic ballads. Surrender is Monheit’s first with Concord Records and is produ…
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Hilde Hefte - On the Cornerby Skoot Larson The truly great jazz vocal stylists, like Billy Holiday, Irene Kral, and Ella Fitzgerald are recognizable…
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After years of success performing live, Sharon Rae North is now launching her second -and much anticipated CD, The Way You Make Me Feel. Comfortable with her self an…
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At first listen, it is inevitable that singer-songwriter Hope Waits’ self-titled, jazz-vocal debut CD will collect comparisons in both style and in voice to the likes of…
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Sometimes the unexpected happens, you hear a CD and it surprises you calmly yet powerfully. That was the case with jazz vocalist TuTu Puonane's Song. The vocal se…
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Single-named vocalist Irene gives equal billing to her Latin Jazz Band on Summer Samba, and with good reason. They're the saving grace of the CD, though a bit of a m…
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Fred Hersch remembered Andy Bey’s 1970s work with Horace Silver when he asked Bey to perform on his Ballads album, and then on to his Nonesuch tribute to Billy Stray…
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Once every few years a singer emerges whose voice is so uniquely different and of such a high quality that you immediately embrace their music. Jazz singer Machan is suc…
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If you want to catch a young jazz singer, whose star is quickly rising, you may want to give a listen to jazz vocalist Lauren White’s CD At Last. White, who is ba…
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New York Voices, a vocal ensemble comprised of Kim Nazarian, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader, and Peter Eldridge, continue to redefine excellence with their two, three, and…
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Judi Silvano has always been one to make some interesting, and in some cases perspicacious, choices. Equally as interested in dancing as in singing, she has sometimes combi…
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Ella Fitzgerald may be gone, but thankfully "The First Lady Of Song" lives on in her music. So what a treat it is to listen to this collection of never before released reco…
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Singer Ginger Commodore’s performance at the 2006 Hot Summer Jazz Festival in Minneapolis is captured on her first solo release. Five songs from that show are on the CD alo…
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Mary Ann Douglas comes from Southern California and was influenced by West Coast jazz. The singer writes all of her own music, and 18 of her original songs appear on her la…
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No strings. No bass. No drums. No gimmicks. Simply the warm and supple voice of Carol Sloane with Brad Hatfield at the piano and Ken Peplowski on clarinet and tenor. No pro…
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"Touches of brilliance with bits of confusion" best describes the 2007 self-release of one Darby Dizard called "Down for You." Talent comes from all directions and diver…
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