Suzanne Lorge

Nov 7, 2024 | downbeat.com | Suzanne Lorge

News, From the Magazine, Samara Joy By Suzanne Lorge   I  Nov. 7, 2024 It’s exciting to watch a megawatt talent unfold in real time. When Samara Joy won the Sarah Vaughan Vocal Competition in 2019, she was still a student who’d only started scatting a couple of years earlier. Today she’s an ever-touring headliner with a massive online following and two Grammy wins.

Oct 10, 2024 | downbeat.com | Suzanne Lorge |Aaron Cohen |Josef Woodard

Volume 91, Number 11 BUY THIS ISSUE  |  SUBSCRIBE Cover Orrin Evans ​Speaks Out! By Suzanne Lorge Since 1995, the pianist/composer has turned out more than 30 albums as a leader, many of them on his own imprint, Imani Records. This year he’s been especially prolific, with two launches just weeks apart this past summer. He recorded the live album with his Tarbaby trio; the second, with his Captain Black Big Band.

Oct 8, 2024 | downbeat.com | Suzanne Lorge

Interview, From the Magazine, Norma Winstone, Kit Downes By Suzanne Lorge   I  Oct. 8, 2024 U.K. vocalist Norman Winstone took the title of her new album, Outpost Of Dreams, from the first piece that she and pianist Kit Downes had ever written together: his music, her lyrics. She listened over and over again to Downes’ melancholic instrumental until the words began to take shape. “I remember the starting line,” Winstone said.

Sep 4, 2024 | downbeat.com | Suzanne Lorge

News, From the Magazine, Sullivan Fortner By Suzanne Lorge   I  Sep. 4, 2024 As a pianist, Sullivan Fortner is a master at shifting gears. He spent years as a key member of trumpeter Roy Hargrove’s quintet. He and vocal phenom Cécile McLorin Salvant regularly perform in concert settings large and small, but most prominently as an incomparable duo. And last year Fortner released the one-man tour de force Solo Game (Artwork) to acclaim.

Jun 18, 2024 | downbeat.com | Suzanne Lorge

Interview, From the Magazine, Maria Schneider By Suzanne Lorge   I  Jun. 18, 2024 Maria Schneider opened the sleek black box and placed it on a coffee table in her Manhattan apartment. Inside lay the three vinyl LPs of Decades, her new compilation release, each record tucked into its own brightly colored jacket. “I tried to pick things that were monumental from each year,” the celebrated large-ensemble bandleader and composer told DownBeat.