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Julie Lyon was born on November 17, 1969 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but grew up in Florida where she studied classical voice and received her degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Central Florida.
After college Julie started her musical career singing with different Top-40, Rock, Blues and Country bands until meeting her husband, drummer Tom Cabrera, and then turned to jazz.
Following her passion Lyon has recorded two albums, “Beginning To See The Light” and “ Live: Between Then And Now” and has since become a regular on the Park Avenue scene in Winter Park. An Orlando area staple, she performs regularly at Club Swank, Harvey’s Bistro, Fiddlers Green and The Citrus Club among others.
Pulling up stakes she moved with her husband to New York and continues to perform with her quartet/quintet in jazz clubs and appear at annual festivals. The vocalist and lyricist also composes, arranges and improvises her style through her original and standard catalogue of music.
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The Jazz Voyager
Touch of Europe Restaurant & Jazz Club: 337 South Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota / Telephone: 605-336-3066 / Contact: Jim Speirs (music bookings) / Below the street level, the place offers a warm, inviting ambience that’s only made more attractive by the presence of live jazz and artwork by regional artists. Here one can sample something deliciously out of the ordinary at this downtown eatery. Eastern European cuisine is prominent, although traditional Continental favorites make appearances, along with regional delicacies. No matter what graces their plate, regulars rave about the food.
Next Stop: South Africa! From Sioux Falls I will depart at 6:05am for 53 hours of flying, stopping in Atlanta for 11 hours where I’ll stop to see friends, then twelve hours in Paris to walk around the city and catch up with a musician friend living there, then off to Cape Town and then on to Johannesburg finally arriving two days later at 7:25pm. Interestingly enough as I rack up the frequent flyer miles, I am actually only in the air for 24 hours. For two days of travel, the layovers do a body good.
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Dolo Coker was born Charles Mitchell Coker on November 16, 1927 in Hartford, Connecticut but was raised in Florence, South Carolina and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The first musical instruments Coker played in childhood were the C-melody and alto saxophones, learning them at a school. By age thirteen he was starting to play piano and after moving to Philadelphia he studied piano at the Landis School of Music and at Orenstein’s Conservatory.
During his Philadelphia years Coker played piano with Jimmy Heath, then became a member of Frank Morgan’s quartet, but it wasn’t until 1976 that he recorded as a leader. Signing with Xanadu Records he cut four albums and worked extensively as a sideman for Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Lou Donaldson, Art Pepper, Philly Joe Jones and Dexter Gordon.
For the next several years pianist Dolo Coker continued to work as a sideman until he passed away of cancer at the age of fifty-five on April 13, 1983.
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Hollywood On 52nd Street
Three Coins in the Fountain is a popular song, music written by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn for the 1954 romantic comedy film of the same name. Starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters Louis Jordan, Rossano Brazzi and Maggie McNamara, the title song was sung by an un-credited Frank Sinatra and went on to become an enduring standard with perpetual encores by jazz musicians. It won an Oscar for Best Original Song at the 27th Academy Awards in 1955.
The Story: Three American women working in Rome dream of finding romance in the Eternal City. That dream is fueled by their belief in the magic of throwing coins into the Trevi Fountain and making a wish.
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Review: Sweet Lu Olutosin | Sweet Lu’s Blues
When pursuing dreams that extend far beyond the horizon of sight, the journey demands unwavering faith. This not only applies to the visionary but to the listener as well. So on a beautiful sunny afternoon I put my ear buds in and settled down with Sweet Lu’s Blues for what I anticipated would be a wonderful adventure in sound and color. From the very first note of Malcolm’s Song I was transported to a “Gay Paris!” street scene with dancers in colorful attire moving provocatively to Sweet Lu’s words.
Then ever so gently he slips into the romance of falling in love every day with the same woman, deftly followed by the promise of the bittersweet side of love in the blues when a man falls hard. Scatting through Call Him Blackjack he easily moves us to drift into the simple pleasures life has to offer to the adventurous. Turning his attention to the Sinatra classic he slows down to interpret Nancy With The Laughing Face and closing the project with the up-tempo of The Baron, a Latin beat under Be My Mamacita and the title track that had me bopping my head and tapping my foot.
I would do grave dishonor if I failed to give praise for the fine aggregation of musicians that comprise the Antonio Ciacca Quintet. Never the understatement, these voices will become familiar compliments to your ear as they place their signature on this project. The arrangements are fun, exciting and surprising with each track and as the title tune came to a close I unabashedly shouted “Applause, Applause!” to Lutalo Olutosin for a vision that unquestionably hit the sweet spot on the mark.
carl anthony | notorious jazz | november 15, 2014
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