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	Rachel Z - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rachel Carmel Nicolazzo (born 28 December 1972 in Manhattan), better known as Rachel Z, is a jazz pianist.
		Later Rachel Z graduated from the pretstigious New England Conservatory with a 'Distinction in Performance' award in 1984.
		Rachel Z had her own rock group Peacebox but now focuses mainly on her trio, drummer Bobby Rae a major driving force in a recent flourish of the group's releases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rachel_Z (481 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews
		RACHEL Z: Yeah, because the kids get too absorbed and a lot of us, Fred, are addicted to music as an escape, which could be good because music is a great healing force, but in terms of really mentoring people from where I am coming from.
		RACHEL Z: No, because my mom and dad wouldn't let me get a day job, so I had no choice because they didn't give me money either and so I had to go out and first find a gig at the Marriott and then I hired the guys.
		RACHEL Z: Yeah, when I went to college, my thing was Joanne Brackeen tunes and Herbie (Herbie Hancock) from Miles Smiles and the "Brain" with Chick Corea and I studied with Richie Beirach when I graduated.
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/rachelz.htm (1981 words)

	Rachel Z: Grace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Z managed to present the music of Wayne Shorter and Joni Mitchell on successive albums in a way that gave equal musical weight to each and which matched its musical voice to its subject completely.
		Rachel’s version of Kurt Cobain’s “Come As You Are” is a thorough modern jazz re-imagining of the song, and Rachel and the trio burn in a way that should satisfy any critical traditionalist listener.
		As a vocalist, Rachel definitely owes a debt to Kate Bush, and she honors that debt with a cover of Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” that works pretty well, despite occasionally mimicking Bush’s vocal mannerisms in a way that could be annoying to some listeners.
	www.jazzitude.com /rachelz_grace.htm (790 words)

	Rachel Z - english biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As both an artist and person, Rachel Z's life and career is all about expecting the unexpected, never settling into one frame of mind or musical style for long before reaching higher to explore the next creative and spiritual level.
		Rachel Z, one of the most stylistically diverse pianists in music, continues the excitement on her new project in which she and her trio honor the tradition and spirit of the lineage of Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter.
		Rachel Z graduated from The New England Conservatory with a "Distinction in Performance" award while working professionally in the Boston area with performers like Bob Moses, Miroslav Vitous and George Garzone.
	www.hopper-management.com /bios/en/rachel_z_bio_e.htm (636 words)

	Rachel Z: Everlasting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rachel Nicolazzo, or Rachel Z, emerged in the 1990s as a talented “Young Lion” pianist.
		Z also figured prominently on Wayne Shorter’s 1995 album High Life, creating synthesizer orchestrations for Shorter’s compositions and serving as musical director on the tour that followed.
		Fortunately, Z found a new approach (piano trio) and a new label (Tone Center) that would allow her to focus on her acoustic work and show what she could do.
	www.jazzitude.com /rachelz_everlasting.htm (937 words)

	Weekend Edition Sunday --- Rachel Z
		December 17, 2000 -- Pianist Rachel Z, born Nicolazzo, grew up in Manhattan, daughter of artistic parents -- her mother was an opera singer, and as a child she made weekly trips to see performances at the Metropolitan Opera.
		Rachel began to play piano at the age of 7, but her fanciful improvisations of Mozart cadenzas only prompted scorn from her piano teacher.
		After a brief foray into smooth jazz with her 1998 release Love Is the Power, Rachel Z has returned to a traditional trio setting and the compositions of Wayne Shorter for her new cd, On The Milky Way Express on Tone Center Records.
	www.npr.org /programs/wesun/features/2000/dec/001217.rachelz.html (235 words)

	CD Review of Rachel Z - Grace on Chesky Records @ jazzreview.com
		Rachel Z, despite—or maybe as a result of—her jazz chops, has always been searching for more than improvisational variations on the tried-and-true standards, even though she’s not averse to playing them as well when she has an concept that she thinks will transform a standard or two into another musical experience altogether.
		Z chooses to express a multitude of human conditions and emotions through her own compositions like “Grace” (“How did this happen to me?/How did I lose my grace?”) or “Riot” (“What if you unraveled your life?/What if you began to feel again?/What if you lost your heart, and then/What if you came undone?”).
		As Z continues to record, she has recorded a series of increasingly personal albums that have helped to define her as she searches for new means of expression that appeals to all listeners, even as she draws inspiration from the contemporary music of the current generation.
	www.jazzreview.com /cd/review-16836.html (611 words)

	jonimitchell.com LIBRARY: Rachel Z recalls influence of Joni Mitchell melodies: Newark Star-Ledger, March 28, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Keyboardist Rachel Z, talking on her cell phone as she walks around her Manhattan SoHo neighborhood, is recalling the audience's reaction at London's Barbican Theatre last May, where she opened for singer Dee Dee Bridgewater before a crowd of 4,000.
		Z, who shortened her name in the '80s when she was a member of the first-rate jazz/fusion band Steps Ahead, performs with her trio Tuesday and Wednesday at Sweet Rhythm in Greenwich Village.
		Later, when Z was a student at Morris Knolls High School, she performed Mitchell's tunes at Tavern on the Green and the Greenhouse in Morristown with her friend, Lynne Harrison (now a holistic health specialist who lives in Verona).
	www.jonimitchell.com /library/view.cfm?id=1298 (709 words)

	Jazz News :: Rachel Z at Nighttown
		Rachel Z has just released her seventh solo recording "Grace, " which features several original compositions and is the first CD where she sings.
		Rachel Z is among the vanguard of musicians who are finding the jazz in modern pop music, and realizing its lasting value.
		Rachel Z is clearly among the elite group of jazz musicians working today.
	home.nestor.minsk.by /jazz/news/2005/09/1907.html (406 words)

	Rachel Luttrell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rachel Luttrell as Teyla Emmagan in Stargate Atlantis
		Rachel Luttrell is an actress who was born in Tanzania, Africa to a French father and Malay mother, and raised in Canada.
		Rachel studied ballet at the prestigious Russian Academy Ballet School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rachel_Luttrell (193 words)

	Pianist Rachel Z's jazz life a fusion of many styles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rachel Z, who brings that same acoustic trio (including bassist Chris Luard and drummer Bobbie Rae) to Pearl's in North Beach on Friday and Saturday, has forged a career of moving among musical genres and fusing disparate styles.
		Z was born and raised in Manhattan, where her mother was an opera singer and her father a visual artist.
		Z returned to New York in 1988 and parlayed her feel for the synthesizer into tenures with headliners like Al Di Meola and Larry Coryell, and the high- profile fusion group Steps Ahead.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/21/DDG9U8BFSV1.DTL (999 words)

	Rachel Z - Jazz at Pearls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rachel is an exceptionally strong performer and composer and has been sought after for versatility proven through her work with Mike Mainieri, Lenny White, Al Di Meola and Bobby Watson.
		Born in Manhattan, Rachel Nicolazzo was groomed to follow in her mother's operatic footsteps.
		Rachel also played acoustic piano on the record and is acting as musical director for the extensive tour supporting the album's release.
	www.jazzatpearls.com /talent/talent_page.php?id=133 (660 words)

	CD Review of Rachel Z - Everlasting on Tone Center @ jazzreview.com
		Gifted pianist/composer/arranger Rachel Z has come up with a creative solution to the dilemma facing jazz musicians these days — the constant challenge of mastering one’s instrument and learning to play through changes with the added problem of a shrinking market.
		Born and raised in Manhattan in an artistic household, her mother was an opera singer; her father was a visual artist), Rachel Nicolazzo started singing lessons at the age of two and began studying piano at seven.
		While that’s beautifully done, Rachel and her accompanists really take off on drummer Bobbie Rae’s Mortal, which taps into that strain of translucent Keith Jarrett-Chick Corea-Herbie Hancock pianism that was vital for a generation of players coming of age in the 1970s and ’80s.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=7353 (710 words)

	Guardian \| Rachel Z, Grace
		When the New York jazz pianist Rachel Z played Ronnie Scott's in London four years ago, she talked like an extra from Friends ("I'm so excited you let me play here in London, it's so awesome") and played like a gifted and wilfully independent disciple of Herbie Hancock.
		But when she returns this month, Rachel Z is likely to sound a great deal different, if this new album is any guide.
		But unlike singer/pianists Diana Krall, Norah Jones or Jamie Cullum, whose keyboard skills are closer to the song-based jazz mainstream, Rachel Z is an improviser whose spontaneous playing is by no means eclipsed by the work of presiding geniuses such as Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5254920-108884,00.html (439 words)

	Rochester International Jazz Festival - ARTIST LINEUP
		Rachel Z also played acoustic piano on the album and was musical director for the tour that followed.
		Two years later Rachel released an album on GRP, Love is the Power, an album that featured hip-hop grooves with melodic piano flourishes and poems about the search for eternal love and wisdom through music.
		Rachel returned to acoustic music, in an all-female trio setting, with On the Milky Way Express, her well-received tribute to Wayne Shorter, in 2000.
	www.rochesterjazz.com /artist_lineup/?artist_id=98 (457 words)

	Rachel Z - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Rachel Z was born Rachel Nicolazzo in Manhattan; her mother was an opera singer, and so Rachel began voice training at the mere age of two, adding classical piano lessons at seven.
		For her next project, Z signed with GRP and cut a hip-hop-flavored smooth jazz outing dubbed Love Is the Power, which was informed by her recent divorce and released in 1998.
		A disc of Joni Mitchell covers and interpretations, the album was very personal to Rachel, but the chance to work with Gabriel was one of the few reasons she would purposefully not tour behind her own record.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,482252,00.html (773 words)

	RACHEL Z - Jazz Piano - Female Jazz Artists - Vertu - "Eclectic Earwig Reviews Music and More for You!"
		Z dedicates each tune to a notable woman, and the hall of greats includes not only the musical figures Billie Holiday and Joni Mitchell, but also women from the fields of literature, dance, painting, and film.
		Rachel Z, Love Is the Power (47:18) GRP, GRD-9929, 1998 Cyberhome: www.grp.com Produced by smooth jazz keyboardist and programmer Michael Bearden, Love Is the Power is not one of pianist Rachel Z’s better efforts.
		With them, for this '90s reprise, is the formidable femme, Rachel Z on inspired and wondrous keyboards and Richie Kotzen on rockin' guitars.
	www.eer-music.com /EER_music_reviews/RACHEL_Z.html (1466 words)

	Metro Pulse/Music/Rachel Z
		Improbable perhaps, but it’s one contrast among many not lost on pianist/keyboardist Rachel Z. That and the fact that somewhere along the line jazz took as its “book,” its essential material, popular tunes of the middle 20th century and has resisted moving forward in time.
		Z (nee Nicolazzo) talks from her cell phone while negotiating traffic in search of a sound check in Puerto Rico, peppering her sentences with “you know” and “I don’t know” and often ending statements with an inquiring lilt.
		A similar insouciance is reflected in Z’s attitude toward notorious sacred cows of the jazz literati, including the purity of acoustic jazz (in addition to the jazz trio, she has electronica and lounge bands and has played with smooth jazz icons) and the synthesizer/piano dichotomy.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2004/1409/t_music2.html (691 words)

	National Society of Collegiate Scholars : Rachel Z. Jurado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rachel Jurado joined NSCS as Coordinator, Communications in June 2005 and enjoys working for an organization dedicated to enriching undergraduate education.
		Even though her hometown, Oak Brook, Illinois, boasts McDonald's Hamburger University, Rachel chose to attend The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She was a member of NSCS and Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with a B.A. in Early Modern European Studies in 2005.
		Rachel plans to pursue a doctorate in English and work in the lucrative field of eighteenth century philosophical tales.
	www.nscs.org /AboutNSCS/Staff/RJurado.cfm (167 words)

	Amazon.com: Moon at the Window - Piano Impressions of Joni: Music: Rachel Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		New York-born pianist Rachel Nicolazzo, nicknamed Rachel Z, is one of the more musically open-minded "young lions" to have emerged from the 1990s.
		Rachel Z understands that the beauty of Joni Mitchell's music is its ability to communicate, and nothing demonstrates this more than her hymnlike reading of "Both Sides Now," where Ms.
		Rachel largely preserves the melodies and tempos of the original tunes, so you'll actually recognize them, but she extends the harmony and rhythm considerably.
	www.amazon.com /Moon-Window-Piano-Impressions-Joni/dp/B00006K0B7 (534 words)

	Rachel Z
		Rachel Z., one of the most stylistically diverse pianist/vocalists in music, continues the excitement on her new project in which she and her trio honor the tradition and spirit of the lineage of Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter.
		In 1998 Rachel released an album which reflected the musical side of her spiritual growth on the GRP release "Love is the Power." This album features hip-hop grooves with melodic piano flourishes and poems about the search for eternal love and wisdom through music.
		Rachel Z will be recording a rock album featuring her songs and singing in her new band "PEACEBOX" in the near future
	www.smooth-jazz.de /Artists3/Z.html (1894 words)

	Dave Samuels; Rachel Z; John Scofield; Habib Iddrisu, Ghanian Drummer; Michael Katon
		Nicolazzo said that in 2001 she flew in from Italy, where she was in the band of an Italian rock star, to play the Toledo show, and as soon as the gig was over, she headed back across the ocean.
		Rachel Z and her trio with bassist Chris Luard and drummer Bobbie Rae will perform at 8 p.m.
		Rachel Z has developed a strong reputation as a accompanist, playing with a number of jazz notables including jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, Al DiMeola and the fusion band Steps Ahead.
	www.jazzhouse.org /files/dupont1.php3?read (4088 words)

	Rachel Z \| Grace
		During the recording or planning sessions for Grace, Rachel Zâs first vocal album, someone should have had the courage to tell her that she just doesnât sing very well.
		She has tried many different things over the years, to varying degrees of success, so perhaps she figured that singing would be a nice change of pace.
		Rachel Z is a talented pianist who can summon moments of real interest with her band, but Grace does not show her to be an effective singer or lyricist.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=19304 (391 words)

	Sheraton Gig
		Price and Rachel Z teamed of for a special concert/clinic during last March's Berks Jazz Fest at Boscov's East.
		Rachel Z says: "Tim plays with compelling energy and feeling that is evocative of one of the future greats of jazz." Price and Rachel Z will be joined by Bobbie Rae on drums and Scott Lee on bass.
		Rachel Z has come up with a creative solution to the dilemma facing jazz musicians these days -- the constant challenge of mastering one’s instrument and learning to play through changes with the added problem of a shrinking market.
	www.timpricejazz.com /sheratongig.html (660 words)

	Rachel McAdams Online / rachelmcadams.org
		I added some more pictures of Rachel on the set of "Marriage".
		I added 2 pictures of Rachel on the set of "Marriage".
		Rachel is up for a few Teen Choice Awards, you can vote for her here.
	www.rachelmcadams.org (313 words)

	Rachel Z: Everlasting - PopMatters Music Review
		Following the same concept as the Bad Plus and singers like Cassandra Wilson, the pianist takes her repertoire from a spate of '80s and '90s pop songs, along with versions of the Stones' "Wild Horses" and the timeless "Ring of Fire", made famous by Johnny Cash.
		Though her style has its limits -- she relies heavily on healthy doses of Evans's impressionism, Keith Jarrett's earnest American gospel, and the wide-open chord voicings of a singer/songwriter -- she manages to balance the need of her audience to hear familiar melodies and song structures with her ability to play straight-ahead, complex jazz.
		Rachel seems more interested in getting down and playing some piano than worrying about the semantics of musical labels, and that suits this listener just fine.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/r/rachelz-everlasting.shtml (987 words)

	Rachel Z Interview
		Rachel Z intensified her formal music education through studio work and live performances with artists such as Wayne Shorter, Mike Manieri, Al DiMeola, Peter Gabriel, Tony Levin, Bobby Rae, and others.
		Rachel Z: I really like the fashion of Tom Ford and would be a designer for his team, or the folks at Gucci...
		Rachel Z: The method to be successful on the Web with serious music, that bypasses the gate keepers and the posers in the music industry.
	members.tripod.com /Mark4.Ram/Interviews/id68.htm (1163 words)

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