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MUSIC AND MEMORIES PART TWO: ESSENTIAL CDS FROM FAIRUZ, FARID EL ATRACHE, MELINA KANA, ALEX PANGMAN

Posted on March 24, 2021 by strecker

*The Fairuz CD Almahaba is a powerful yet finely-realized up-close experience, one that requires the listener’s surrender. Here, surely, is evidence why Fairuz is a legend in the Arabic world. Her vocal embellishments are very difficult to achieve, according to … Continue reading →

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ALEX PANGMAN – WHAT’S HAPPENING? … “I HAVE NOW SUNG THIS UNRECORDED CONNEE BOSWELL SONG INTO A MICROPHONE, RECORDED FOR POSTERITY. IT WAS RECORDED IN ONE ROOM WITH NO BAFFLES, IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT CONNIE WOULD HAVE RECORDED. IT TOOK ME OVER A YEAR TO PLUCK UP THE NERVE TO RECORD THIS SONG: I WANTED IT TO BE JUST PERFECT.”

Posted on September 8, 2019 by strecker

JAMES STRECKER: Please tell us what you want the public to know about your recent completed project or the one you are actively working on. What is it, why is it, and how was/is it done? ALEX PANGMAN: My upcoming … Continue reading →

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ALEX PANGMAN: HIGHLY RESPECTED JAZZ SINGER WITH TREASURED CHOPS – AND ALSO A DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT – EXCLAIMS “FOR A JAZZ SINGER, I SURE LOVE SINGING COUNTRY MUSIC WITH MY HUSBAND! I REALLY LOVED IT WHEN ONE REVIEWER CALLED ME A SINGER, AND NOT JUST A JAZZ SINGER” …. A REVIEWER’S INTERVIEW WITH PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

Posted on May 31, 2018 by strecker

JAMES STRECKER: If you were asked for 50 words for an encyclopedia to summarize what you do, or have done, in the arts, what would you say? ALEX PANGMAN: Oh man, this question is the hardest!!! I always find summing … Continue reading →

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RISING OUT OF THE ASHES WITH MUSIC AND WORDS: CDS THAT GOT ME THROUGH TRAUMA AFTER THE HOUSE FIRE

Posted on April 15, 2018 by strecker

It was about a year ago, five months after the fire that kept us out of our home for eight months, that this happened: I was driving down King Street in Hamilton and playing, back to back, the Hungarian String … Continue reading →

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AN INTERVIEW WITH SINGER ALEX PANGMAN, CANADA’S LONG-REIGNING SWEETHEART OF SWING AKA “LA CRÈME DU JAZZ CANADIEN” -WITH A NEW JUSTIN TIME CD RECORDED IN NEW ORLEANS

Posted on October 9, 2014 by strecker

For many years jazz singer Alex Pangman has been widely respected and praised as an exponent of jazz vocals from the twenties to the forties, a singer with insightful smarts in the idioms of this repertoire and an inherent sense … Continue reading →

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