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Karrin Allyson (with Nancy King): Life Is A Groove (Jordu) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 02, 09

Karrin Allyson and Nancy King are separated by a generation, but they have a symbiotic relationship. While each has a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 JAZZ DIVAS YOU NEED TO KNOW

       Singer in Red, artwork by Suzanne Cerny “Jazz singer” used to ...

Nancy King: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 10, 08

Bugattis are scarce in the Kia-filled parking lot of current jazz vocalists, but Nancy King is that rare marquee. She...

Nancy King: Sweeper Man (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 10, 08

Music: the encompassing ocean. The wind: the omnipresent Miles. The vessel: one of his transcendent compositions; its...

Karrin Allyson: Everybody's Boppin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 07, 09

To close her vocalese tribute CD, Footprints, Karrin Allyson gathered together her guest artists Nancy King and Jon H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Karrin Allyson: All You Need To Say (Never Say Yes) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Imagine Einstein theorizing on jazz: “Physics/Jazz constitutes a logical system of thought which is in a state of evo...

Karrin Allyson: Follow the Footprints (Footprints) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Buddha Shorter tossed this pebble into the pond and each ripple embraced a new set of lyrics. Its re- incarnations in...

Wilson, Nancy posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Singer Nancy Wilson came into her own voice on discs for Capitol and Blue Note in the early 1960s, with a youthful jo...

Monroe, Nancy (Nancy Tina Kaplan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Monroe, Nancy  [Nancy Tina Kaplan], vocalist, educator; b. Verona, NJ, 15 April 1950. She has two sisters, Joan,...

In Conversation with Karrin Allyson posted in Features and Interviews February 15, 08

by Marissa Dodge Editor’s Note: As part of jazz.com's focus on jazz vocalists this month, we are delighted to pr...

Track Review Round-up posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 15, 08

Jazz.com continues its quixotic but noble pursuit of reviewing all the great -- and even the not-so-great -- tracks s...

In Conversation with Fred Hersch posted in Features and Interviews May 19, 09

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Knife Fight Breaks Out Over Sun Ra Review posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 17, 08

Well maybe not a real knife fight. This is the Internet, after all, and the bloodshed is only virtual. But if th...

In Conversation With Sheila Jordan posted in Features and Interviews March 14, 09

By Roanna Forman Sheila Jordan is one of jazz's great individualists—a vocalist influenced less by other singe...

Petersen, Milo (Christian Milo) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Petersen, Milo (Christian Milo), guitarist, drummer, composer, educator. b. Renton, WA, 23 June 1953. Spent his child...

Woideck, Carl (Eric) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Woideck, Carl (Eric), tenor and soprano sax, educator, author; b. Cleveland, OH, 23 November 1947. Since 1968, he's p...

Black, Ben (Wesley Benjamin Black) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Black, Ben (Wesley Benjamin Black), singer; b. Monterey, CA, 30 October1966. His father, (John Black 1940) was Sloven...

Hagberg, Garry posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hagberg, Garry, guitarist, educator, author; b. Medford, OR, 22 December 1952. Raised in Grants Pass and Myrtle Creek...

Hersch, Fred posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hersch, Fred, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1955, pianist and composer, has earned a place among the foremost musician...

Sophie Milman: The Man I Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 10, 07

When Sophie Milman recorded it, "The Man I Love" was, at 80, antique enough to have been an oldie in her grandpa...

From the Mailbag: Jazz Singing posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 22, 08

Jazz.com's recent series of articles on the current state of jazz singing continues to elicit interesting respo...

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