Vocal Jazz

Stella Cole, My Funny Valentine Review

Stella Cole, My Funny Valentine Review Stella Cole’s My Funny Valentine: Classic Elegance Through Standards By Sylvannia Garutch Stella Cole’s My Funny Valentine is a three-song standards set deliberately built around a distinct jazz-vocal format. [...]
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Tom Lippincott, Ode to the Possible Review

Tom Lippincott, Ode to the Possible Review Tom Lippincott’s Ode to the Possible Through Motion By Nolan DeBuke Recurring drum figures, doubled melodies, group improvisational swells, and angular compaction and releases give Ode to the [...]

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George Cables, I’m All Smiles

by Sylvannia Garutch Pianist George Cables has been recording as a leader or co-leader since 1975.  He was initially taught piano by his mother and garnered his training at the High School of Performing Arts […]

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John Patitucci, Spirit Fall Review

John Patitucci, Spirit Fall Review John Patitucci’s Spirit Fall: The Sound of Three Voices Listening by Nolan DeBuke John Patitucci’s Spirit Fall is an album that thrives on interaction, subtlety, and the vast harmonic implications […]

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Tigran Hamasyan, StandArt Review

Tigran Hamasyan, StandArt Review by Ferell Aubre Tigran Hamasyan is releasing StandArt on Nonesuch Records. This album marks the pianist and composer’s first album of American standards and comprises songs from the 1920s through the 1950s by […]

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