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Reviews
Although I’d enjoyed reading Jazz reviews in Downbeat, Jazz Times and other publications for many years, and was never shy about verbalizing my opinion on recordings and live performances, I never considered writing reviews myself. However with the additional time available in retirement, I found myself starting in Oct, 2000, writing my impressions of recordings and live events in emails to SONGBIRDS. I did them partly because I appreciated all that I learned from the similar messages many other members also posted.
Although I frankly didn’t even consider them to be reviews, I received positive feedback from other passionate fans and music professionals. Those Songbirders outside New York and outside the U.S. who rarely had the opportunity to see most of these artists, were particularly grateful and interested in the detail descriptions of live performances.
From there it wasn’t a big step to make the reviews more widely available by submitting them to other web sites, such as Allaboutjazz.com and later Albanyjazz.com, as well as hard copy publications, such as the “A Place for Jazz Newsletter”. I never envisioned however, that it would lead to frequently writing so many in my first 7 years of retirement.
Subsequently, I learned that there are many Jazz lovers whose passion for the music leads them to volunteer substantial amounts of time to share their feelings by writing numerous reviews.
Following are links (in reverse chronological order) to those 35+ reviews and articles published other than on Songbirds, whose archives are restricted to members; but a list of those approximately 130 reviews is available at Reviews written to Songbirds
Albanyjazz.com
- Esperanza Spalding
- Ann Hampton Callaway
- Dianne Reeves
- "Favorite 2007 CD's"
- Sheila Jordan
- Mark Murphy
- Roberta Gambarini
- Jeanne O’Connor
- Bobby Sanabria
- “Favorite 2006 CD’s”
- Giacomo Gates
- “Favorite All-time CD’s”
Allaboutjazz.com
- Rebecca Parris
- Barbara Lea
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Sonny & Perley
- Francesca Tanksley
- Teri Roiger
- Linda Ciofalo
- Marty Phillips
- “Singing Instrumentalists”
- “My Day with Giacomo Gates”
- “Recent Acquisitions”
- “2005 Jazz Cruise Vocalists”
- “Memories of the
- “Upstate Swing Band”
- Tommy Flanagan
- Tenor saxophonists “Ballads” CD’s
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- Sonny & Perley
- Larry Lewis
- Rebecca Parris
- Colleen Pratt
- "Capital District Jazz Scene"
City Cabaret Library
Jazzsingers.com
- Carol Sloane
- Chris Connor
