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Ella Grace: Figments
by Katchie Cartwright
Raised in the icy jny: Minneapolis-St. Paul area, trumpeter and composer Ella Grace studied with longtime Prince band member Steve Strand before moving to jny: Chicago to attend DePaul University, from which she graduated summa cum laude in 2025. Supported by a Chicago Music Scene Fellowship, Figments, her debut as a leader, is a testament to the warm reception she has been receiving in her new home. The album finds her in good company among an assemblage of up-and-coming Windy ...
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by Richard J Salvucci
Julia Danielle is a young Chicago-based singer whose debut album shows considerable promise. Aside from a limpid contralto voice, good time, and a dead-on resemblance in profile to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (it cannot hurt), she is the epitome of effortlessness and good taste in her approach to the Great American Songbook. One ultimately suspects she will find her métier singing in the intimate setting of a small room backed precisely by the sympathetic support of the small band she ...
Continue ReadingJulia Danielle: Julia Danielle
by Katchie Cartwright
Julia Danielle has been working hard on her craft. She grew up in the jny:Chicago area, singing in the Campanella Children's Choir, winning the International Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition in 2022 and earning an undergraduate degree from DePaul University in 2023. She is on track to graduate with a master's in jazz studies from Juilliard in 2026. On Julia Danielle, her self-titled debut, she reveals her skills as a budding singer and arranger in a set of familiar standards, ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Night and Day
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