by Tony Zambito, Jazz Buffalo Lakecia Benjamin’s Pursuance: The Coltranes, Champian Fulton’s Birdsong, and Thana Alexa’s Ona all ranked among Jazz Buffalo’s Top 25 Jazz Albums of 2020. Read the full article here.
Derrick Gardner – ‘Still I Rise’ 78 Derrick Gardner takes a grand leadership role on Still I Rise leading his Big dig! Band, arranging, producing and composing all of the music. The North American band has many musicians from Manitoba where Gardner resides, and they all stand tall. The layered brass on “Push Come To Shove” is … Read More
by Simon Sweetman, Off The Tracks Raised by a dad that was a jazz trumpeter (he was friends with Clark Terry, even) Champian Fulton grew up listening to the greats. There’s Dinah Washington in her voice and Wynton Kelly is one of the pianists she has drawn from – but it’s the rollcall of the … Read More
By Joe Bebco, The Syncopated Times “Champian Fulton is a favorite of our readers, and appears frequently at the classic jazz parties and jazz society events they attend. Though her albums fall squarely within the classic jazz boundaries of TST, they are a little more crisp, a bit more modern, at the edge of what we … Read More
By Leonard Weinreich, London Jazz News Pianist-singer Champian Fulton’s birth in Norman, Oklahoma, was – according to this album’s sleeve notes – accompanied by the sound of the ‘Charlie Parker With Strings’ album, from a cassette recording conveniently provided by her dad – flugelhorn-playing ‘Bird’ fan, Stephen Fulton. Read this full review here.
By Dusty Groove, JAZZ CHILL Champian Fulton’s an artist of many talents – both a great singer and a strong pianist too – at a level that’s way more than just a vocalist shading in her lyrics with piano – as part of this set is instrumental, and really showcases Fulton’s strong touch on the … Read More
By Dee Dee McNeil, Musicalmemoirs’s Blog This bold and unique vocalist/pianist is celebrating Charlie Parker’s centennial with her delightful release of “Birdsong.” The first thing I love is that Champian Fulton has her own style and vocal personality. Read the full review here.
By Sammy Stein, Something Else! Champian Fulton is a pianist and singer originally from Oklahoma. Her childhood was punctuated by visits from jazz luminaries who were friends of her trumpet-playing father Stephen Fulton, who later ran the Clark Terry Institute for Jazz Studies in Iowa and serves as producer on her new Charlie Parker tribute … Read More
By Rick Anderson, CD Hotlist What’s so great about Champian Fulton as a singer is that she blends Ella Fitzgerald’s sweetness and clarity of tone with Billie Holiday’s playful approach to rhythm (and sometimes pitch). Read this article here.
By ABC Australia We’ve been talking a lot about Charlie Parker these last few weeks in the lead up to the saxophonist’s centenary – and a number of contemporary artists have also paid tribute to the bop legend. Check this feature here.
