September Buzz

Fifth Annual Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival

Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Lincoln Center Hosts:
September 7-October 5, 2009

Don't miss the 5th Annual Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival featuring nightly performances by some of the leading ladies of jazz - Marian McPartland, Renee Rosnes Quartet, and Karrin Allyson. Late night sets include Sarah Manning, Helen Sung … and more. Live jazz nightly
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Jaimee Paul and At Last continue to sizzles!

The girl has chops; Jaimee Paul is the real deal and At Last, a collection of signature songs associated with great ladies of song, was/is the perfect vehicle to introduce jazz lovers to Ms. Paul’s artful delivery and enthralling interpretation of song.

Green Hill Production – In the summer of 2008 Jaimee Paul was working as backup singer for country music legend Wynonna Judd in Alaska when divine intervention, by way of a telephone call from Nashville’s music impresario Bill Gaither with a request to “get your music over to Green Hill [Productions]”, changed the landscape of her life. And in less than six months a new jazz singing sensation was being unveiled.

Jaimee also self-produced her own album, Angel Like You, that intermingled jazz standards with three original songs, including the title track. Besides touring with Wynonna, Jaimee has worked with other country music luminaries like Lyle Lovett.

Sultry, sassy, and sophisticated … a total package! Kudos to Leif Shires (husband) your trumpet is smokin’… Lyndah M Glover

Vocalist-songwriter-pianist Spencer Day, is an artistic VAGABOND, a modern-day musical nomad

I’ve heard it said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. Perhaps not, however, what the stone does gather are the colors, the feelings, and the textures that defines it.

Concord Jazz – Born in Utah, reared in rural Arizona, and currently living in Los Angeles with extended residences in New York and San Francisco, Day has called many places home. Along the way he wandered amid the diverse landscapes of American music developing an artistic sensibility that borrows from jazz, musical theater, cabaret, soul, folk, traditional pop and contemporary pop. Day uses intuition and improvisation as his primary tools to craft a sound that is traditional and familiar yet fresh and innovative. And at the same time he has created a musical blend that defies categorizing. Vagabond, his debut release with Concord Jazz bolsters his reputation as a balladeer for the new century whose creative voice is distilled from the best elements of the previous one …

“An awareness of the present for me as much as for anyone listening to this record or experiencing one of my live performances is something I really encourage. I don’t intend to tell people how to feel, or how to get to a certain place. It’s more a matter of inviting them to come along with me – It’s a one-way ticket. You don’t get to around. So make sure you’re paying attention and enjoying it.”

The way he sings his songs for you … I love that about him, too. And this is also true… it is the salt in his stew! Lyndah M. Glover

Guitarist Peter White bids his fans a GOOD DAY

Peak Records – For over twenty years, Peter White has made the acoustic guitar a dynamic and expressive voice in the overall soundscape of contemporary jazz. Since his first recordings in the early 1990’s, he has infused pop standards and his own original material with a sense of innovation and energy that rivals the abilities of many of his electric guitar counterparts. In a career that spans two decades and a dozen solo recordings, he continues to surprise seasoned fans and newcomers alike with his willingness to push the preconceived parameters of his instrument to new places.

But, White’s musicianship is only part of the story. While his more recent recordings have primarily consisted of cover material, a collection of original songs had been simmering and taking shape for several years. It all comes to the surface on Good Day, his new CD which was released on September 8, 2009, on Peak Records, a division of the Concord Music Group.

“I hadn’t made a CD of original songs for some time,” says White. “The last one was Confidential, which was released in 2004. So, I just started going through my backlog of material; songs that I’d never finished, some going as far back as ten or fifteen years, and I discovered that I had a lot of gems that I really wanted to show to the world. I wanted to record them in my own time and in my own way, without any outside influence or interference.”

Even as the sun sets on Good Day, the recording overall represents a beginning for White – an opportunity for him to reconnect with the clever and engaging song-craft that characterized his earlier recordings. White goes on to say, “These songs had been raw demos for a long time. Hearing them come to life by introducing them to other musicians who were experiencing them for the first time was very exciting, and very surprising. I had lost track of the possibility that these songs could have so much potential beyond what I’d originally envisioned. If I had finished this project purely by myself, it wouldn’t have been anywhere near as good. It’s the different ingredients and spices and colors provided by other people that make it what it is.”

Check out the latest from Peter White and get ready for a Good Day.