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Album Review

Karen Blitx: Spin This

Read "Spin This" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


It started when she was a little church girl. Listening to her organist mother sing the harmony parts of hymns, Karen Blixt soon developed a knack for improvising. The New York-born West Coast transplant has spent her life exploring different ways to present a song. After years of live performances in nightclubs, weddings, receptions and fund-raisers, she took a friend's advice and recorded her own album, Spin This, on her label HiFli. A fixture ...

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Performance / Tour

Karen Blixt Offers a Hopeful Message on Her New CD Mad Hope Due in Stores Spring 2008

Karen Blixt Offers a Hopeful Message  on Her New CD Mad Hope  Due in Stores Spring 2008

Source: Gorgeous PR, Inc

KAREN BLIXT OFFERS A HOPEFUL MESSAGE ON HER NEW CD MAD HOPE DUE IN STORES SPRING 2008 BLIXT WILL BE PERFORMING AT YOSHI'S IN OAKLAND ON APRIL 15 AND CATALINA JAZZ CLUB IN LOS ANGELES ON MAY 21 San Francisco-based jazz singer Karen Blixt releases her second album Mad Hope in Spring 2008. The thirteen-track collection is a robust and ambitious project that finds Blixt building on the successes of her 2006 ...

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Recording

Karen Blixt's New CD "Mad Hope" Due in Stores Spring 2008

Karen Blixt's New CD "Mad Hope" Due in Stores Spring 2008

Source: Gorgeous PR, Inc

STELLAR JAZZ VOCALIST KAREN BLIXT's DEBUT DISC, SPIN THIS, BREAKS ONTO JAZZWEEK's TOP 50 ALBUMS CHART! Chanteuse Also Dazzles in Two Sold-Out Shows at World-Famous Yoshi's Karen Blixt has spent the past ten years meticulously establishing herself as one of the California Bay Area jazz scene's most respected and successful vocalists, before choosing to make two auspicious achievements in the same week. Karen's highly-awaited debut album, Spin This, broke onto the JazzWeek Top 50 Albums Charts. ...

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Education

Karen Blixt Jazzschool

Karen Blixt Jazzschool

Source: All About Jazz

Karen Blixt has spent the past ten years making a name for herself as one of the California Bay Area jazz scene's most respected and successful vocalists. Now to commemorate the release of her first-ever studio recording, Spin This, Karen will be teaming with a host of the jazz's finest luminaries for a stellar performance at Berkeley's Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance.

On Saturday, June 3rd, 2006, Karen will delight audiences with another daring and bold array of jazz's ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Spin This

HiFli Records
2007

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