Features

Bill and Dee Dee’s Extemporaneous Adventures: How Two Jazz Pros Formed an Unlikely Team

Elemental, an album of jazz standards featuring the combined talents of jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and jazz...

Helping Rare Birds Take Flight: Choosing Neglected Songs for a Setlist

Cole Porter wrote approximately 800 songs, according to Robert Kimball, who compiled their lyrics in a hefty tome....

Color Her Celebrated: A Conversation with Our 2025 ASCAP-Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Recipient, Sandy Stewart

Hesitation was never something that could hold singer Sandy Stewart back—not when it came to her career. The...
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Club Reviews

Nellie McKay

For her opening number at her recent show at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Nellie McKay chose a hit...

“The Beat of a Wandering Heart—The Songs of Marty Silvestri and Joel Higgins”

A revue is a curious inhabitant in the world of cabaret, often existing in a limbo between theatre...

Bill Russell’s “Has Anyone Seen My Mind?”

When lyricist/librettist Bill Russell is not busy writing influential, iconic musicals like the Tony-nominated Side Show and Elegies...
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Album Reviews

Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano’s “Painting the Town”

For some reason, I had the mistaken idea that the recent recording Painting the Town, from the singing-spouses...

Juliet Ewing’s “Simply ‘S Wonderful—The Magic Of Gershwin”

Regardless of the prevailing musical tastes, singers in each generation discover the remarkable, varied, romantic and passionate musical...

Hannah Gill’s “Spooky Jazz Vol. 3”

I am aware that the traditional phrase is “moved to tears” but when listening to Hannah Gill’s new...
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