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Sound Advice is Patti Austin's first pure pop album in ten years and, as a vocalist, Austin has always moved easily between genres. Austin excels when she's paired with a producer who can bring out ...
WHEN VOCALIST PATTI AUSTIN made her living as a hired hand ... "Avant Gershwin," recently nominated for a Grammy for best jazz vocal album, is a sequel of sorts, a songbook compilation not ...
If anyone deserves to be salty about a lack of career recognition, it's Patti Austin ... commercial jingles, R&B albums and jazz discs. But unlike, say, Diana Krall, Austin doesn't have a Grammy ...
Patti Austin just might be the greatest singer you ... She's had an occasional hit, and as 60 Minutes II reported last winter, she has an album of songs associated with her idol, Ella Fitzgerald.
His songs won several Grammy Awards, and he wrote for Bob James, Donna Summer, Herbie Hancock, Brothers Johnson, Rufus, Patti Austin and others. He also collaborated with Quincy Jones on various ...
If anyone deserves to be salty about a lack of career recognition, it’s Patti Austin ... jingles, R&B albums and jazz discs. But unlike, say, Diana Krall, Austin doesn’t have a Grammy or ...
In this public masterclass, legendary vocalist Patti Austin will share her unparalleled ... a mainstay on the Billboard charts with 19 solo albums to her credit and performances of her hit songs ...
Grammy-winning vocalist Patti Austin, known for bringing a similarly ... age of 4 and made her recording debut with soulful jazz albums in the '70s. As a session performer, she sang on recordings ...
For her 16th album Patti Austin has decided to go with one of those you can't go wrong with it albums. A fine singer in her own right, Austin pays tribute to perhaps the quintessential female jazz ...
Although the new releases by Patti Austin, Janis Siegel and Steve Tyrell are vocal concept albums, the results are decidedly mixed. "For Ella," Austin's tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, is refreshing ...