Music / jazz

DIVA + the boys


Reviews (3)


All about jazz

d. 18. Feb. 2020

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Dan Bilawsky

d. 18. Feb. 2020

"With Diva's leader, Sherrie Maricle, stoking the flames, some of jazz's world-class women tearing through some fine-tuned charts, and the guests sprinkling their own form(s) of magic on the mix, DIVA + The Boys proves dynamic from the first ... After more than 25 years together, and despite plenty of personnel changes along the way, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, with or without some company, remains a force to be reckoned with".


Making a scene

d. 18. Nov. 2019

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Jim Hynes

d. 18. Nov. 2019

"This is a wide ranging group of compositions, some from the guest soloists, standards, and famous Brazilian jazz songs ... These kinds of projects along with many university and youthful ones prove without a doubt that jazz is alive and building a strong future that incorporates past traditions but keeps moving forward".


DownBeat

2020 March

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James Hale

2020 March

"The concept of women killing it on anything but piano and vocals still was a novelty to some people when drummer Sherrie Maricle and Stanley Kay founded The DIVA Jazz Orchestra in the early '90s. Today, with innovative bandleaders like Mary Halvorson and Terri Lyne Carrington in the spotlight, an all-female-by-design ensemble seems almost anachronistic. Time to invite the boys in, says bandleader Maricle ... If there still are doubters in 2020, hearing Roditi exchange solos with saxophonist Roxy Coss on a warm, swinging version of Tom Jobim's "A Felicidade" or clarinetists Ken Peplowski and Janelle Reichman zip through Benny Goodman's "Slipped Disc" should put sexist tropes to rest".