Judy Carmichael in Her Stride
Jazz Journal – April 2010
Peter Vacher meets the one-woman whirlwind who brings new meaning to the term self-starter
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Great Britain
Judy Carmichael in Her Stride
Posted on April 3, 2010 by md in
JUDY CARMICHAEL AT PLYMOUTH MUSEUM
Posted on December 11, 2009 by md in
By PHILIP R. BUTTALL
Dec 11, 2009 – The Herald Plymouth, England
It’s not often that a pianist can enthral a packed audience with a programme which seems essentially the same throughout, save for some changes of pace and the odd vocal thrown in.
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JUDY CARMICHAEL – STRIDE!, CITY HALLS, GLASGOW
Posted on November 30, 2009 by md in
by ALISON KERR
30 Nov 2009 – THE HERALD
5 STARS!
A touch of New York sparkle came to Glasgow when the vivacious pianist Judy Carmichael made her Scottish debut as part of Jazz International’s winter programme.
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TOP FIVE JAZZ: GLORIOUS GERSHWIN; PORTICO QUARTET; JUDY CARMICHAEL; PORTOBELLO NU JAZZ
Posted on August 16, 2008 by md in
By Clive Davis
August 16, 2008, The Times
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JAZZ: JUDY CARMICHAEL
Posted on August 10, 2008 by md in
by ROBERT SHORE
Sunday, August 10, 2008, METRO LONDON
Not many contemporary jazz pianists can boast a nickname given to them by the great Count Basie. Judy Carmichael can, though. The Count was so impressed by the young pianist’s awesome two-fisted technique that he dubbed her ‘Stride’ in reference to her mastery of the pre-World War II solo playing style popularised by Fats Waller.
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CONCERT WAS A RARE TREAT INDEED – JUDY CARMICHAEL AND RANDY SANDKE AT NORWICH PLAYHOUSE
Posted on March 7, 2005 by md in
by David Wakefield, Norwich, England
March 7, 2005, Eastern Daily Press
To hear the art of stride piano playing practiced in this day and age is rare enough. But to see and hear a very fine woman player brings to a mind a well-known phrase involving the words ‘hen’ and ‘teeth’.
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JAZZ: JUDY CARMICHAEL TALKS TO OUR CRITIC
Posted on April 1, 2003 by md in
April 2003 – The Times (of London) – by Clive Davis
Stride Piano, ragtime’s brash young cousin, is a style usually associated with men with gnarled fingers and unlit cigars jammed in their mouth. Seventy years ago, when stride was the lingua franca of jazz, its thunderous chords ringing out at parties across Harlem, the great practitioners of the form were players as colorful as Willie “The Lion” Smith and the master showman Fats Waller.
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JUDY GETS WELL INTO HER STRIDE
Posted on March 9, 2003 by md in
March 9, 2003 – Evening Standard (London) – by Jack Massarik
Fats Waller and James P. Johnson were the masters of it, but Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Art Tatum weren’t bad either. Nowadays the youthful Jason Moran can do it for a few moments, but Judy Carmichael, bless her, does it all night.
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