hilary gardner

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hilary gardner is one of my very favorite singers. my impression of her art is that hilary genuinely adores the tradition, but is not enslaved by it and doesn't use it as a prop.

http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/hilary-gardners-quiet-triumphs-jazz-at-kitano-september-25-2013/

"But the show had three triumphs where she outdid herself. And the remarkable connection among those three performances was that they were all of “familiar” songs, which could in other hands have been formulaic, predictable, unsurprising. Hilary didn’t “do” anything to these three songs to change them — the songs didn’t need it — but she embodied them with deep feeling, freshness, and ardor."

Edited September 27, 2013 by alocispepraluger102