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Album Review on Bebop Spoken Here
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Album Review on Bebop Spoken Here

Dutch-born Thisbe Vos has given us a stunningly good album of songs, mostly romantic, and mostly self-penned. She has immense talent as a songwriter, producing songs in the gasbook tradition in which she is obviously immersed.

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CMJ US Jazz Chart
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CMJ US Jazz Chart

After two weeks of promotion, “Under Your Spell” is at #26 on the US “CMJ” college jazz radio chart:

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All About Jazz Review of Under Your Spell
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All About Jazz Review of Under Your Spell

First, there is that name...Thisbe Vos. It is not merely exotic; it is something much more than that, something mythic. Dutch-born, living the dream in America's land of Milk and Honey—LA—Vos, by her looks, voice, repertoire, composing...demands attention, and gets it without ever raising her voice.

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Why I Make Music
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Why I Make Music

When I grew up in Holland I used to listen to Ella Fitzgerald. No matter what was going on in the struggles of every day life, I could always put on one of those songs for a couple of minutes and it would just make me feel a lot better about the world again.

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My Favorite Things Photo Contest
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My Favorite Things Photo Contest

We recently had a photo contest for my music video of “My Favorite Things”. I had had the idea to make a video with photos of my favorite things and the favorite things of people all over the world. It was great fun – we received over 500 funny, interesting and stunning photos.

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What Is Jazz?
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What Is Jazz?

I was recently posed the question “what is jazz, blues and swing and how do they relate to each other (since they sometimes seem difficult to tell apart)”. This also leads to the question “what is jazz”. Here is my own humble answer.

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Vocal CD of the Month
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Vocal CD of the Month

Sophistication was just designated “Vocal CD of the Month” by veteran jazz producer, journalist and voting member of NARAS Arnaldo DeSouteiro.

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Sophistication Album Release
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Sophistication Album Release

It’s already been a couple of weeks since the album was released – there was such a whirlwind of activity around the release that I hardly had time to post. The release went off splendidly.

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Sophistication Album CD Signing
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Sophistication Album CD Signing

By popular demand… autographed album copies!

This was me signing CDs last week before the they went off to the fulfillment warehouse.

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Interview with Thisbe Vos
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Interview with Thisbe Vos

We are only seven days away from the release of Sophistication! It has been several years in the making, took hundreds of hours to produce and required painstaking attention to detail.

I wanted Thisbe to share with all of us how the making of the album actually materialized into what is going to be released on September 16th.

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Sweet & Hot Jazz Festival
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Sweet & Hot Jazz Festival

The Mills Brothers invited me to perform a duet with them at their show at the Sweet and Hot Jazz Festival in Los Angeles.

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New Release: “After You’ve Gone”
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New Release: “After You’ve Gone”

My second song and music video were released on Friday 6 May. This song is called “After You’ve Gone” (not to be confused with the 1918 song by Turner Layton and Henry Creamer).

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