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Alicyn Yaffee

Graduate of Kelseyville High School.Student at California State University Sacramento. Double Jazz Studies Major. Guitar and Voice.

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JC Hopkins Biggish Band: New York Moment

Read "New York Moment" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


On New York Moment, pianist JC Hopkins and his twelve-piece Biggish Band tend to a flame that's been burning since prior to World War II, the sound of large dance bands (with and without vocalists) who moved audiences with both sophistication and swing. Hopkins' Moment rotates Vanisha-Arleen Gould, Joy Hanson, Nico Sarbanes (who also plays trumpet), Shawn Whitehorn and Alicyn Yaffee (guitar) as lead vocalists. The opening track leaves you genuinely “Beguiled" as vocalists Nico and Joy harmonize ...

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Alicyn Yaffee: Someone Else

Read "Someone Else" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Dyspeptic in my late 50s, in a fit of self-pity, I have said, “Youth is wasted on the young." That is so much sour grapes on my part given to a questionably-misspent youth. What I wish for the young, sadly tilting at Mother Nature's windmills, is to remain young forever. I certainly wish this for vocalist/guitarist/composer Alicyn Yaffee, who made her recording debut in 2016, with the self-produced Someone Else. She composes music with rounded corners and informed melodies. Her ...

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"JUNE -- A Battle of the Band, featuring local teen performers, kicked off the first "Kickin' in the Country" street dance for Summer 2008. The monthly dances are hosted each summer by the Kelseyville Business Association. The June 19 concert drew an enthusiastic crowd. "Smooth," consisting of Hamed Hokamzadah ..boards, Alicyn Yaffee on lead guitar, David Ferrarrio on bass guitar and Isaac McQueen on drums, won first place in the competition. The group won $600 and received free studio time." -Copyright © 2008 - Lake County Record-Bee

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

New York Moment

Self Produced
2020

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Someone Else

Self Produced
2016

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