Dear Friends:
Thank you for dropping by, I hope that you will enjoy the website, the music and be moved to purchase. After so many years in the business I have been featured in magazines, newspapers and interviewed on radio and television. So here and now, I would like to share some of the excerpts with you.
"Elegance, style, intensity, a serious dedication to perfecting her craft and a voice that can reach the high and the low notes with poise, Sandra Kaye is one of the best. What else can we say? Listen, and you will simply agree."
CHARLENE REYNOLDS
THE FORT WORTH JAZZ SOCIETY
PROGRAMS COORDINATOR
“If you are a lover of the late, great Dinah Washington or of the Blues of Billie and Bessie, then you’ll love Sandra Kaye. She gives new life to the old standards of jazz and blues. All month long at JZ, you can hear why Sandra is such a vocal jazz triumph.”
JZ'S CLUB HANGZHOU, CHINA 2007
"I can sit and listen to Sandra Kaye all evening, she sings my kind of music and she has a beautiful voice."
ROY HAYNES
WORLD RENOWNED DRUMMER
SANDRA KAYE ENCHANTED THE AUDIENCE WITH CLASSIC TUNES WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS:
BACK IN TIME
UNT band honors Gershwin; Kaye invokes Sarah Vaughan
By Matt Weitz
(Special Contributor)
JAZZ REVIEW:
With the second show in it's spring season, the Sammons Center for the Arts has once again established itself as one of the best deals available to the local music fan, particularly if he or she is looking to impress a date with an evening of understated musical elegance.
The center's sold-out show Wednesday night was a double-header paying tribute to George Gershwin. First on the bill was the University of North Texas Jazz Repertory Ensemble's new take on the music of the Gershwin era.
The small group - 18 players, give or take a few according to arrangements - started out with four songs from the era: "I Got Rhythm," "I Found a New Baby," "Tiger Rag" and "HIgh Society." All were directed by John Murphy, who plays in the Alternative Jazz Sextet with Dave Zoller and Drew Phelps.
Taken from stock arrangements from radio stations WBAP and WFAA's music libraries, the songs - true to the era but argumented in places with added solos and harmony - seem less the museum pieces that they’re usually presented as and more the soundtrack to someone’s life, lifted, say, from a humid evening in a ragtime speakeasy.
The high point was a performance with guest pianist Dr. Steven Harlos of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Most of us are used to big, room-filling orchestral versions of this number, sweeping versions that play up New York City as a cinematic concept featuring Robert De Niro as the listener.
Wednesday night’s version based on a recording of an arrangement for a nine-piece orchestra by Mas Ikemiya, with the New York Ragtime Orchestra - was a more intimate reading that presented NYC as a personal, neighborhood experience. It made for a refreshingly different interpretation of a favorite.
The second half of the show was a lesson in how good you can be and still be in Dallas. Vocalist Sandra Kaye has been delighting area audiences for years with her invocation of the spirits of greats like Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan, and she continued the trend Wednesday night with classics like “Summertime” and “Someone To Watch Over Me.”
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