Tag: Misty
Dianne Reeves: Songs of Love
Very few people use their voice to the extent that Reeves can with impeccable phrasing, harmony and instinctual skills.
Oct. 25: Cabaret Cares/Happy Birthday Johnny Mathis
Cabaret Cares: Happy 80th Birthday Johnny Mathis
Ann Hampton Callaway: The Sarah Vaughan Project
Callaway has the tone and timbre of the later Vaughan style, the sensitive attention to lyric and the emotional showmanship to carry it off spectacularly.
Johnny Mathis
January/February 2014 JOHNNY MATHIS In 1956, a young man stepped in front of a microphone in a recording studio at Columbia Records in New York City and magic happened. With the guidance of Mitch Miller, who knew just what sort of song he should record, Johnny Mathis began a still-going-strong 57-year-long career. With his first […]
Ron Dabney: What You Need
Ron Dabney brought his warm, mellow voice, his magnetic stage presence to the Metropolitan Room.
La Tanya Hall: To Sarah with Love: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Sarah Vaughan
La-Tanya-Hall-Sarah-Vaughan-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212It takes a special voice to do justice to Sarah Vaughan, who I rate as one of the five greatest female vocalists of all time. La Tanya Hall has such a voice.