Roseanna Vitro – Sing a Song of Bird (Skyline Records SKYP 2101. CD review by John Stevenson) On Sing a Song of Bird, four jazz vocal titans pay their respects to Charlie […]
Roseanna Vitro – ‘Sing a Song of Bird’
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 42. ‘First Song: For Ruth’ – from Charlie Haden Quartet West, In Angel City, 1988
The 42nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a memorably different saxophone sound. Charlie Haden’s Quartet West project produced a series of albums that were love letters to LA, and its mid-century […]
Georgia Mancio and Alan Broadbent – ‘Quiet Is The Star’
Georgia Mancio and Alan Broadbent – Quiet Is The Star (Roomspin Records. Album review by Denny Ilett) That glorious body of 20th Century musical work known as The Great American Songbook has […]
Georgia Mancio/ Alan Broadbent (new album plus songbook for release 27 March)
The sense of a special relationship slowly evolving has been unmistakeable whenever the gifted and versatile British/Italian singer-songwriter Georgia Mancio reflects on her now eight year-old partnership with the Grammy-winning former Woody […]
Diana Krall – “This Dream Of You”
Diana Krall – This Dream Of You (release date 25 September) (Universal/Verve. Review by Adam Sieff) Diana Krall has made some truly great albums during a stellar career, but this isn’t likely […]
Georgia Mancio’s third Hang (Pizza Express, 9 – 11 Oct)
Vocalist and songwriter Georgia Mancio hosts her 2019 Hang at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho on 9 – 11 October. She spoke to John Fordham about collaboration, heritage, lyrics, multiple realities […]
Georgia Mancio’s 3rd Hang (9-11 October 2019)
Peter Bacon reports: Vocalist Georgia Mancio has announced her third Hang, the mini-festival she organises, and in which she collaborates with various musicians in different aggregates. The 2019 edition will be held […]
