Articles tagged "peggy lee"

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Great City, a Great City’s Music: The Vancouver International Jazz Festival

by Will Layman

[3.Sep.09] :. Our jazz critic Will Layman spent a full week soaking up the music -- and the city -- offered by what may be North America's finest jazz festival.

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Nels Cline: Coward / Alex Cline: Continuation

by Will Layman

[18.Mar.09] :. The drum-and-guitar playing brothers release simultaneous solo projects on the great West Coast jazz label.

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Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet: One Dance Alone

by Jennifer Kelly

[29.Jul.08] :. Experimental pianist and composer Wayne Horvitz leads two very different ensembles -- one rhythm-based and jazz leaning, the other lushly orchestral -- along paths that sometimes cross and comment upon one another. Gorgeous and thought-provoking.

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Peggy Lee: All Aglow Again!

by Sarah Moore

[24.Jun.08] :. Celebrating 50 years of "Fever!", these four albums commemorate the catalog of Peggy Lee, from the most popular to previously unreleased songs.

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Best Jazz of 2006

by Will Layman

[11.Dec.06] :. Will Layman's list of the year's best jazz records, a hearty baker's dozen, includes iconoclasts, eccentrics, avant-gardists, and some downright swingers.

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Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet: Way Out East

by Will Layman

[11.Aug.06] :. Chamber jazz of the highest order, for quartet (trumpet, bassoon, cello, piano) -- a perfect mix of composition and improvisation

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Peggy Lee: The Best of Peggy Lee (Millennium Collection)

by Stephen B. Armstrong

[14.Aug.02] :. In 1941, Benny Goodman discovered Peggy Lee in a Chicago club. Impressed as much by her silver-coated voice as her elegant stage demeanor, he hired the 21-year-old North Dakotan on the spot, and...