Virginia Arts Festival Brings Jazz Vocal and Brazilian Music
The Virginia Arts Festival continues to impress with the depth and breath of its schedule. As part of the Attucks Jazz Series this year, the Festival is offering performances by the extraordinary San Francisco based jazz vocalist Kenny Washington, New York based singer/bassist Nicki Parrott and...
RSS 2.0 Dorian Devins – The Proc...
Wave Mechanics Union
Giacomo Gates’ Sings Mil...
Allan Harris pay tribute to Bi...
Scat singing is one of the true paradoxes in jazz. A vocalist who scats with any level of authority is usually considered to be a jazz singer, yet one need not scat to fall into the jazz singer category. So, Betty Carter was a jazz singer because she scatted, but so was Billie Holiday and she never scatted....
So many artists have covered Beatles tunes in so many ways that one might wonder why anyone would bother anymore. What possibly could there be left to say in this music?
Undeterred, Chicago jazz musicians Paulinho Garcia and Grazyna Auguscik have taken on some of the most familiar works in the Beatles...
Jackie Ryan joined the upper echelon of contemporary jazz vocalists at least a half-dozen years ago, around the time of her stunning You and the Night and the Music. 2009′s aptly titled Doozy, a double platter of delights, reconfirmed her stature, evincing an effortlessness akin to Ella’s or...
Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet (UVJQ) puts its sublime signature on an engaging but rarely heard vocal jazz genre and breathes new life into the tradition of the great harmonizing vocal groups with its new cool: a collection of swinging, tightly harmonized originals that is quickly becoming a vocalese classic....
The VOCAL SOUND OF JAZZ began airing on 89.5 FM (now WHRV-FM) on January 4th 1980. Originally a 30 minute program that aired on Friday evenings, the program expanded to it current 60 minute format and moved to Saturday evenings during the 90s. It was also aired over WUOM in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a five-year period in the late 1980s. Produced and hosted by Jack Frieden since its premiere broadcast, the program has always attempted to spotlight both jazz vocal music’s post 1950s history, as well as the new singers and songs that will continue to play an increasingly prominent role in the music’s future. With the internet’s ability to attract and entertain jazz vocal fans globally, Jack looks forward to broadening the mission and reach of the “Vocal Sound of Jazz” in coming years