Features

Crowdfunding: The Do’s, the Don’ts, the Virtues, the Liabilities

Doing What You Have to Do to Get Your Work Out There When James Beaman decided to return...

Bistro Bits: Kazan Shazam! With Re-Released Albums, the World Gets a Burst of Vintage Lainie

On February 3, 1965, singer-actor Lainie Kazan stepped onto the stage of Manhattan’s Winter Garden Theatre for the...

Bistro Bits: Rolling Back the Years—with Mary Hopkin, Dory Previn, and Eydie Gormé

The songs, sonatas, and symphonies we gravitate to early in our lives set in motion our own particular...
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Club Reviews

Club Review: Janis Siegel with Yaron Gershovsky—”The Colors of My Life”

For his contributions to Broadway and the Great American Songbook, composer Cy Coleman deserves every accolade and tribute...

Club Review: Tierney Sutton with Shelly Berg— “Songs of Loss, Justice, and Hope”

If you are going to call a show Songs of Loss, Justice, and Hope, all I can say...

Club Review: Val Hawk—”Special Material”

Val Hawk is a singer with an earthy, wry presence—she’s funny, friendly and unpretentious. Shortly before she was...
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Album Reviews

Bistro Bits: Special-Case Albums—New Releases by Minnock and Aloisio/Pallatto

Today for Bistro Bits, I’m having a look at two recent album releases, both of which fall into...

Bistro Bits: Jazz Babies 2024–New Recordings by Russell and Mason, Loar, and Levy/Vannatter

A couple of weeks ago, writer Lisa Jo Sagolla discussed a number of new recordings on this site....

Album Reviews: A Pleasurable Trio of Recent Releases

Reviewing recordings by leading cabaret vocalists may be the heavenliest job on earth, as this latest batch of...
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