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Diane Hoffman
Diane Hoffman’s singing is filled with direct and truthful emotional expression. She is blessed with a rich textured voice, playful surefooted rhythm and an easy rapport with accompanists. A multitalented creative powerhouse, she is an accomplished painter as well as an exciting and dynamic jazz singer. Diane brings her painter’s passion for narrative and innate sense of tone and balance to jazz expression. In a world beguiled by style Diane Hoffman remains committed to authenticity.
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Diane Hoffman: My Little French Dancer
by Jim Santella
Honoring a departed friend through her latest album, singer Diane Hoffman tells stories that provide a clear glimpse of the heartache and depression that follow such a loss. Her Farewell, Noelle" provides the facts while her interpretation of When Did You Leave Heaven" provides the feeling. Tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon, guitarist John Hart and pianist Oliver Von Essen provide a big lift, keeping the session immersed in a jazz arena through statements that recall Rollins, Montgomery and ...
read moreDiane Hoffman: My Little French Dancer
by Michael P. Gladstone
Jazz vocalist Diane Hoffman's decision to open My Little French Dancer with Magidson and Wrubel's Gone With the Wind" is indeed a wise one. There are perhaps a dozen or so top echelon jazz singers who have provided a vocal version of this jazz standard, including Anita O'Day, Carmen McRae and a young Betty Carter's unforgettable and indelible take with the Ray Bryant Trio. Diane Hoffman's version is an up-tempo one that remains right in there among the best of ...
read morePerformance And Visual Artist Diane Hoffman To Release Third Album Do I Love You Produced By Ulysses Owens, Jr. Featuring A Dynamic Ensemble
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Vocalist and visual artist Diane Hoffman will release her third album entitled Do I Love You on October 9, 2018. On the recording, Hoffman once again chose to feature drummer/percussionist Ulysses Owens, Jr. with whom she previously worked and, who for this project, produced and assembled a formidable ensemble that includes Billy Test, piano; Jacob Kelberman, guitar; Yasushi Nakamura, bass; Yoshi Waki, bass; Daniel Dickinson, tenor saxophone; Vitaly Golavnev, trumpet; Eric Miller, trombone; and Joseph Doubleday, vibraphone. Hoffman, a formally ...
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