Andy Williams

Winter Jazzfest 2025: The Once and Future Music

by Adam Beaudoin
April 9, 2025

Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 9-15, 2025 Impressions of A Love Supreme We are standing in a line outside the venue, waiting in the January chill to listen to nearly two dozen musicians perform and pay tribute to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, 60 years to the month after its release. People ...

Matt Panayides: With Eyes Closed

by Richard J Salvucci
February 10, 2025

This is a charming recording: reflective, tranquil and built around the compositions of some of the most distinguished players and composers of what ought to be called the American Jazz Songbook. Here you have music written by Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Cedar Walton and Chick Corea, to name only the figures in one strain. ...

Various Artists: Putumayo Presents Jazz Christmas

by Jim Trageser
December 14, 2021

The Putumayo World Music compilations have achieved an enviable brand status with their wide-ranging stylistic variety and the distinctively cheerful covers by artist Lisa Gonzalez. The latest entry, Putumayo Presents Jazz Christmas joins previous entrants Putumayo Presents New Orleans Christmas (2007) and Putumayo Presents A Jazz & Blues Christmas (2008) in offering collections of ...

Norah Jones: I Dream of Christmas

by Jim Trageser
October 23, 2021

With Tony Bennett's retirement, the mantle of legitimate straight-ahead pop crooners is now firmly in the hands of subsequent generations: Harry Connick, Jr., Diana Krall and Norah Jones. Not pure jazz singers, of which there are numerous stellar examples, these singers are more in the Bennett-Sinatra-Fitzgerald mold, bringing a jazz sensibility to pop music.

Jazz is Mod: An Introduction to the Mod Jazz Series

by Jakob Baekgaard
November 16, 2018

In England there is a solid tradition for crate digging and appreciation of American music. In fact, the whole idea of Northern Soul is based on the concept of English hipsters digging out rare soul gems in the sixties and giving them new life on the dance floor. However, the English mod scene, as it was ...

Paul Jost: The First Thing is Heart

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 12, 2015

Even for a musician who has been playing and singing since age six, Paul Jost has just come through one exceptional year. First, he released his debut with The Jost Project, Can't Find My Way Home (2013, Dot.Time Records), featuring the leader on vocals, harmonica and guitar, with drummer Charlie Patierno, double bassist Kevin ...

The Essential Andy Williams

By Andy Williams

Label: Columbia
Released: 2013
Track listing: Canadian Sunset; Butterfly; Danny Boy; Moon River; Stranger On The Shore; Can't Get Used To Losing You; Hopeless; Days Of Wine And Roses; The Peking Theme (So Little Time); It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year; A Fool Never Learns; Charade; On The Street Where You Live; Dear Heart; I Can't Stop Loving You; ...And Roses And Roses; Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado); In The Arms Of Love; Music To Watch Girls By; Born Free; More And More; Holly; Sweet Memories; The Impossible Dream (The Quest); Battle Hymn Of The Republic; Happy Heart; A Woman's Way; Can't Help Falling In Love; Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head; One Day Of Your Life; Home Lovin' Man; (Where Do I Begin) Love Story; Never Can Say Goodbye; Love Theme From "The Godfather" (Speak Softly Love); You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me; Award-Winning Song Medley;

John Crawford: Ulia River of Time

by Bruce Lindsay
May 24, 2013

Of all nature's wonders, the river is the one that can most readily encapsulate the passage of time in very human terms. In just a few miles a river moves from the first tentative steps of childhood to the brash, energetic, movements of youth and the meanderings of middle age before it disappears in its old ...

Interview: Crooner Mark Shelton

June 18, 2012

Q: When did you decide to become a singer? A: I sang in school and church choirs as a kid, and grew up through the music of the '60s and '70s. I listened to a lot of the early era of rock & roll as my dad had a massive collection of 45s from the '50s ...