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Miss Justine: Jazz Appreciation Month Event at Bob and Barbara’s Lounge
by Victor L. Schermer
Miss Justine Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project and the Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy Bob and Barbara's Lounge Philadelphia, PA April 23, 2023 Vocalist Miss Justine (full name Justine Keeys) is a Philadelphia phenomenon. She has a unique mastery of the jazz idiom, faithful to both the letter and the expressive meaning of the music. Justine has an intuitive sense of phrasing, timing, and dynamics that ...
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by Victor L. Schermer
Jazz vocalist Miss Justine (Justine Keeys) is a Philadelphia phenomenon. I first heard her sing several years ago, and was blown away by her unique mastery of the jazz idiom, so completely faithful to the music that it seems to run through her rather than be performed in any artificial sense of that term. Thus, Justine is a natural in several respects. For one thing, she has the gift---the intuitive sense of phrasing, timing, and dynamics that is never forced, ...
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by Michael P. Gladstone
Justine Keeys is a Philadelphia-based jazz singer whose second recording, a septet outing, features highly regarded Philly saxman Larry McKenna. The album is so titled due to the singer's wish to mix the instrumentation throughout, presenting voice with piano and bass, or adding drums, or adding sax and/or trumpet.
She presents thirteen well-chosen songs (albeit not in the order listed on the jacket) that consist of some well-selected standards as well as some obscure and interesting alternatives. The ...
read moreCelebrating Jazz Month: Jazz Bridge Third Thursdays Neighborhood Concert Series In Willingboro, NJ Presents Miss Justine
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Bruce Klauber
Jazz Bridge Third Thursday Neighborhood Concert Series in Willingboro, NJ presents jazz vocal legend Miss Justine at the Willingboro Library—220 Willingboro Way in Willingboro Township—on Thursday, April 16. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. This performance, and all Jazz Bridge concerts being held in the month of April, are a part of the City of Philadelphia’s “Jazz Appreciation Month” celebration, sponsored by “Creative Philadelphia,” within the ...
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Vocalist Miss Justine In Collingswood, New Jersey Thursday, Nov. 7th!
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Jim Miller
The Jazz Bridge first Thursdays Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 West Collings Avenue in Collingswood, NJ—presents singer Miss Justine on Thursday, November 7th. Downbeat is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 856-858-8914, 215-517-8337 or visit Jazz Bridge. Miss Justine has long personified just what Jazz singing is all about, and remains one of the singular interpreters of song and an inspiration to many vocalists in the ...
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Jazz Bridge Presents Miss Justine at the Cheltenham Art Center on May 4th
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Suzanne Cloud
To close out the 2010/2011 Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts Series in Cheltenham, jazz vocalist Miss Justine will be appearing at the Cheltenham Art Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd, Cheltenham, PA on May 4th with pianist Tom Lawton, guitarist Gerald “Twig" Smith and bassist Lee Smith. Miss Justine Keeys recorded two highly regarded CD's in the past decadeTasty and The Many Moods of Miss Justine on the Dreambox Media labeland she has been a must-see and must-hear vocalist on the Philadelphia jazz ...
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