Jazz Fridays
Halie Loren
Her voice simply fills every emptiness around you. Warm, graceful, gorgeous, ethereal… you can almost feel her beside you, in an intimate ambient, singing only for you by closing your eyes. Listening to her records is the best reward for ending a hard day, or the best way to stay calm and be concentrated while […]
Andrea Mann – “Yosemite”
When she’s not holding a microphone, Andrea’s holding a pen. Or rather: its modern-day equivalent. That’s right: a typewriter. That’s what she says about herself in her website. Andrea Mann is a London-based jazz vocalist. She also plays piano and performs as a solo artist. Her style can just be defined with one word: brilliant. Relaxed, […]
Gretchen Parlato – Butterfly
“I sing :)” That’s what she says about her in her twitter account. She sings. And she does it really, really well. I had heard about her some months ago, and felt I needed to listen by myself if the good critics I read were true. And they were. Born in Los Angeles in 1976, […]
Joanne Tatham – “You make me laugh”
All this blog is about discovering… well, that’s what we’ll do now. When I read the first reviews about Joanne’s voice, just started searching the web to find more. I found her twitter account, @Joanne_Tatham, and her website joannetatham.com… And then, could listen to her voice… it was exactly as I imagined: a wonderful and […]
Stacey Kent – Postcard Lovers
Stacey Kent is a north american singer with a long trajectory. She came to Europe for stuying languages, and finished joining saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, who became her husband. Following that union, Stacey turned around her career, and after leaving her language studies, and training at the Guildhall School of Music, she began to walk her […]
Diana Krall – S’Wonderful
Although some people don’t like the way she sings, I love the way she plays piano, the way she sings, and the way she is in her public life. A true Lady. Diana Krall performances are smooth, closer, and brilliant.
The twitter experiment
You know, there’s a twitter account called @jazzfridays, where you can ask anything you want: make a suggestion, ask for a song, or simply say “Hello!”… When I opened that account last friday, I started a little experiment: started following some people, and diving into their followers… and… you know? I found some incredible people. […]