Jazz Review :A quiet ending to the third night of XRIJF
by admin on Jun.27, 2010, under Jazz
Article Summary:
A place for thoughts on jazz…traditional, swing, straight ahead and beyond.She had some hard acts to follow, but Katie Thiroux’s unusual choices of music kept me in my seat. They included transcriptions from YouTube of a Jimmy Giuffre and another tune from the 50s, thus showing the influence of her…
Article Content:
She had some hard acts to follow, but Katie Thiroux’s unusual choices of music kept me in my seat. They included transcriptions from YouTube of a Jimmy Giuffre and another tune from the 50s, thus showing the influence of her age. Singing over bass will invite comparison with Esperanza Spaulding, but the two come from different places in the spectrum. Nice quiet place to end the third night of XRIJF.
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