Driscoll teaches Reading Music VillageSoup Belfast Cecil Taylor introduced her in New York to a concert and recording career that includes performances with Abbey Lincoln, Jimmy Lyons, Dewey Johnson, Paul Murphy and William Parker. Driscoll also is a member of the piano and voice faculty at Bay ...
Etta James: Her Lonely Sound New Yorker (blog) The church was crowded with musicians in dark suits; Carter's great friend, the singer Abbey Lincoln, sang, and excerpts from a radio interview with Carter occasionally filled the church as well. When asked about her tendency to take young musicians on ...
Three Nights, Four Gigs: Big Apple Diary Jazz Police (blog) The Abbey Lincoln selections—mostly from Kendra's Spirit Free tribute—included the tribal feel of “Throw It Away,” the country-folk zing of “The World Is Falling Down,” and the soulful “Should Have Been” –the last highlighting Kimbrough and seemingly ...
Emma Smith, Pizza Express Jazz Club - review Evening Standard It's sad to reflect that not only are Ella and Billie long gone but so too later beacons such as Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter. To whom can talented young singers now turn? Details are correct at the time of publication - please check ...
Readies New Release in 2012 Following Rave Concert Reviews and Multiple Market ... MarketWatch (press release) "These are some of the most memorable new songs to come from a jazz singer since Abbey Lincoln. Charleston delivers vocal artistry at the highest level on this collection," Hot House Jazz recently claimed. And noted Hollywood syndicated celebrity ...
Review: Jordan a true 'messenger of the music' Ottawa Citizen There were songs that nodded to Jordan's peers and inspirations — Good Morning Heartache for Billie Holiday, Bird Alone for Abbey Lincoln, Lucky To Be Me for Leonard Bernstein, Lady Be Good for Ella Fitzgerald, and Oop-Pop-A-Dah, that quintessential ...
Sundance 2012 Review - "Middle Of Nowhere" (aka "Nothing But A Woman") Indie Wire (blog) Some of you will likely recognize the film reference I made in the heading of this review; the still very much groundbreaking (even today, some 48 years later) 1964 film Nothing But A Man, starring Ivan Dixon as our "man" and the lovely Abbey Lincoln.
Yaka and the Altered Natives Nation on Sunday Yet their notes, alas, emanate not from a liberating John Coltrane, Archie Shepp or Abbey Lincoln. Their blaring blandishments reverberate the rest-and-recreation brothels of the US Seventh Fleet in Southeast and East Asia.
