Features

Who Futzed with That Lyric? How and Why Singers Change the Words of a Song

Are you sometimes attracted to a song—one you’d like very much to perform—but there are certain words, turns…

Let’s Celebrate the Songbook Like We Used To

Sapped by the heat and pooped at the end of a busy week, I settled in for a…

Creating a First-Rate Song List: The Importance of Your Musical Menu

Fashioning a suitable song list is an essential task for a vocalist who’s presenting an afternoon or evening…
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Club Reviews

“Jane Monheit Sings the Cole Porter Songbook”

The magnificent jazz vocalist Jane Monheit brought her new 60-minute show of eleven sensuously rendered Cole Porter classics…

D’Jamin Bartlett—”Night Club: A True Story”

In the late winter of 1973, I found myself sitting in the Shubert Theatre to see a brand-new…

Aaron Valentine — “Who Are You Again? Learning to Sing Through Life”

Hearing Aaron Valentine’s rich, piercing vocals on a medley of A Chorus Line’s “Music and the Mirror” (Marvin…
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Album Reviews

Miss Maybell and Her Ragtime Romeos — “Under the Midnight Moon—Unrecorded Songs of the 1890s – 1920s”

An amazing feat of research, re-vivification, and recording, the unique new album Under the Midnight Moon proffers tickling,…

Album Review: Bria Skonberg’s “Indigo”

Juno Award-winning singer/musician Bria Skonberg’s new album, Indigo, is a companion piece to her recent release, Brass, which…

Carmen Lundy—”Notes from the Wine Cellar”

The release of jazz great Carmen Lundy’s sixteenth album, Notes from the Wine Cellar, coincides with her being…
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