Anne Peckham

26 Sep

Music tHERapy, Steve Coleman, Izze Apple Soda and Other Various and Sundry Things

Jessica Boykin-Settles0 CommentsConcerts, Practicing, Practicing Jazz Singing, UncategorizedAnne Peckham, Atlas Theater, Charlie Parker, false vocal folds, Ornithology, Seth Riggs, speech level singing, Steve Coleman, vocal warmup

Started this session with vocal warm-ups from the Anne Peckham's The Contemporary Singer. Even after getting through the Beginning Warm-up for all voices and the first warm-up for high voices, I still didn't feel warm or agile, my intonation was not on point and I was not getting the smooth transitions all the way through my range. My false vocal folds are also acting really lazy and I'm going to have to go back to my exercises for moving them off to the sides and from on top of my true vocal folds. At this point, because I was sounding…

12 Sep

Frozen Chai and Charlie Parker

Jessica Boykin-Settles0 CommentsPracticing, Practicing Jazz SingingAnne Peckham, Brian Settles, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Estill Voice Method, frozen chai, How High the Moon, Jazz Piano Handbook, Michele Weir, Ornithology, Secret Handshake, Smithsonian, Take Five Series, transcription, WPFW-FM

I woke up to the most beautifully perfect morning...Oh my, how I love this time of year! Today is my big sister's birthday, so I took her out for breakfast at Open City Diner where I ate a huge omelet and drank THE most delicious confection: FROZEN CHAI! YUMMY! O.K., so anyway, let's get down to business. :-). Because I was up so late last night trying to get this website finished (I finally got into bed sometime after 2am) and I was up early, I have to admit that I didn't have a lot of energy to practice but…