Sue Sheriff

Harmonica Salad

By Mike Turk

Label: Tinsandwich Music
Released: 1991

Louise Alexandra: Today

by C. Michael Bailey
December 12, 2020

From Destiny to Today ... Vocalist and composer Louise Alexandra's Today requires a bit of unpacking. In 2012, a wunderkind polymath named Louise van Aarsen released a debut recording, Destiny receiving positive critical attention. Known as Dr. Louise Koopman in her day job as Sr. Research Scientist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and in ...

Rebecca Parris: 1951-2018

by C. Michael Bailey
June 22, 2018

You'll happen my way on some mem'rable day And the month will be May for a while... I was never fortunate enough to have met Rebecca Parris in person; but, I was fortunate enough to live in and be a part of the musical universe that surrounded her. That universe was created ...

Better Than Anything

By Sue Sheriff

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Face That I Love; Can��t Get Out of This Mood; Remembering the Rain; Better Than Anything; Turn Out the Stars; Devil May Care; Where Did the Summer Go; Daahoud; If You Went Away; Whisper Not; Night Lights; All Blues.

Shirley Horn: Shirley Horn Live at the 4 Queens

by C. Michael Bailey
September 5, 2016

“Horn did ballads and cool, understated ruminations better than anyone except her first champion, mentor and lifelong friend, trumpeter Miles Davis. Both were masters of silence and anticipation, but even Davis teased Horn about her pacing. 'You do 'em awful slow!' he once said.'" Richard Harrington, Washington Post. The incandescence that was ...

Sue Sheriff: Better Than Anything

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2016

It was in one of those art pieces often used to close an hour out on National Public Radio where a jazz vocalist was being interviewed about the durability and longevity of the “Great American Songbook." The singer remarked that as long as listeners age and have life experience, the standards composed between 1920 and 1960 ...