Donna Antonow-Reviews
"Open your ears and arms to a new stylist. Donna Atnonow has a way with a song - her own way. Besides her soul-jazz vocals, she deliver scintillating piano accompaniments,
arrangements and solo stylings... I DIG IT..."
-BOB DOROUGH
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"Every time I hear Donna Play it makes me want to sing..."
_Mark Murphy
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"Antonow's is distinctive and quite eccentric.
It's an approach to singing as radical as Thelonius Monk's to the piano or
Lester Bowie's to the trumpet..."
-The Star Ledger
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"Donna Antonow does more than hold her own with her fellow jazz vocalists -
her strong vocals and nuanced phrasing carry her high above her contemporaries..."
-The Express Times
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"...the way Donna presents standards does more than breathe new life, she completely resuscitates them. She takes a standard and for four or five minutes, makes the song her own, and when she is finished, the song is better for that experience...of the 10 best of 2001..."
-Dave Nathan, All About Jazz
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"She plays the piano and sings like no one you've ever heard.
I suspect at the age of four she was kidnapped by a roving band of jazz musicians
that taught her all their secrets..."
-Gerry Geddes, Encore Magazine
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