Touring Amidst The Pandemic Svetlana and The New York Collective Receives Jazz Road Touring Grant; Will Tour New Project Night at the Movies This Year and Introducing Night At The Movies – on Vinyl First leg to bring award-winning singer through North and South Carolina in February Second leg this Fall; details announced soon Svetlana … Read More
By Jeff Wilson, The Absolute Sound Prior to the pandemic I was already feeling the allure of beautiful new music that wears its heart on its sleeve, and that impulse has grown stronger now that I’m spending more time at home. Today’s jazz-influenced Neo-Romantic pop singers take me back to the days when my parents … Read More
By C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz Russian-American singer Svetlana Shmulyian has blended an East Europe/Russia combination of elegant determination and delicate grit into the American Songbook on her debut recording Night at the Speakeasy (AO2 Records, 2016), and then film music on Night at the Movies (Starr Records, 2020). The artist surprised listeners by … Read More
Svetlana Reflects on the Times on “Young and Beautiful”, a Bonus Track from the Billboard Chart-topping Night At The Movies, out May 8th Renowned vocalist Svetlana is thrilled to unveil “Young and Beautiful”, a brand new, never-before-heard bonus track off of her #1 Billboard Chart-topping new album Night At The Movies. This stirring rendition of … Read More
By: Jennifer Stahlkrantz, ShoutOut
by Alan Young, New York Music Daily Svetlana & the Delancey 5 have had a memorable run as one of New York’s most colorful swing bands. But their charismatic Moscow-born frontwoman is much more eclectic than most of the other oldtimey hot jazz chicks in town – and you can hear it in her voice. Her … Read More
By Michael Doherty, Michael Doherty’s Music Log It’s interesting to me how closely tied music and film often are. Sometimes a song that we’d heard all our lives will be featured in a film and from then on it is difficult to divorce the film’s images from the song. I think particularly of “Stuck In … Read More
by Mike Greenblatt, the Aquarian Weekly There is a scene in the 2015 movie Brooklyn wherein an immigrant named Ellis Lacey (played by Saoirse Ronan) steps off the boat from Ireland in her new world of New York City. Her eyes are filled with wonder and her right hand tightly grips her one piece of luggage. When … Read More
by Alan Young, NY Music Daily/Lucid Culture A Starry, Starry Night with Svetlana at Joe’s Pub Saturday night at the sold-out album release show for her latest cd Night at the Movies at Joe’s Pub, singer Svetlana further crystallized the lush sound she’s been gravitating further and further toward with each successive record. The erstwhile leader of longtime … Read More
By: Joe Bebco, The Syncopated Times Syncopated Times readers will remember Svetlana from her hot band The Delancy Five, who are a staple of the New York traditional jazz scene and had an award winning album, A Night at the Speakeasy, in 2015. She takes a more theatrical approach, (cough cough), on her new album, Night at the … Read More
