Tag: SFJazz
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. 2: Cecile McLorin Salvant
All the buzz surrounding new jazz sensation Cecile McLorin Salvant is more than justified.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
All the buzz surrounding new jazz sensation Cecile McLorin Salvant is more than justified
Freddy Cole
Freddy Cole SFJAZZ, San Francisco, CA, July 19, 2015 Reviewed by Steve Murray for Cabaret Scenes Revered by his peers, Freddy Cole is reserved a seat at the table of jazz giants and continues, five decades into his career, to be a standard bearer of the swinging romantic balladeers. A master of the judicious, never […]
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.
René Marie: Music of Eartha Kitt
Rene Marie sings with her heart and mind, often adding vocal percussion and vocalese over a verse.
Paula West: Tribute to Ethel Waters
I told a friend I was seeing a tribute to Ethel Waters and he said, “Who’s she?”
