I’m premiering an original work in tribute to my Mother, Faith E. S. Victor called Faith, The Gift on April 24 + 25, 2026 at the Jazz Gallery, with a stellar ensemble full of amazing humans through the generous George Wein Fellowship I received in 2025.🙏🏾🫶🏾🎊🌻#thejazzgallery

I’m premiering an original work in tribute to my Mother, Faith E. S. Victor called Faith, The Gift on April 24 + 25, 2026 at the Jazz Gallery, with a stellar ensemble full of amazing humans through the generous George Wein Fellowship I received in 2025.🙏🏾🫶🏾🎊🌻#thejazzgallery

Join me and an incredible ensemble on April 24 and 25, 2026 at the Jazz Gallery as I pay tribute to my Mom, who died when I was just 19 years old. It’s an honor to be a recipient of the George Wein Fellowship through the Jazz Gallery, allowing me to compose and present Faith, The Gift to you.
🙏🏾❤️

Yes!🙌🏾

W T ACTUAL F?
#venezuela

December Point of Departure is Out Source: Point of Departure. Page One: Fay Victor: Giving Voice to Herbie Nichols: a column by Bill Shoemaker Karl Evangelista: Improvised Self-Expression: an interview with Troy Collins Bass on Top: Malachi Favors away from the Art Ensemble of Chicago: a column by Andrey Henkin Guy Kopelowicz in conversation with Brandon Burke The Book Cooks: Better Do It Now Before You Die Later Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin (Blank Forms; Brooklyn) Moment's Notice: Reviews of Recent Media

December Point of Departure is Out

Source: Point of Departure. Page One: Fay Victor: Giving Voice to Herbie Nichols: a column by Bill Shoemaker Karl Evangelista: Improvised Self-Expression: an interview with Troy Collins Bass on Top: Malachi Favors away from the Art Ensemble of Chicago: a column…

"I was introduced to Herbie Nichols' music when I still considered myself to be a mainstream jazz singer. It was also a moment when I was reconsidering whether or not I wanted to be a mainstream jazz singer."

Fay Victor: Giving Voice to Herbie Nichols
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Information Highway, by Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFunk from the album Wet Robots

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre

Fay Victor:
🎵 Information Highway

#FayVictor

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

monstrous, monumental evil

Thanks for sharing!

Kaiso Stories, by Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor 8 track album

Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor
Kaiso Stories (2010)

Roy Campbell
Daniel Carter
William Parker
Charles Downs
@freesongsinger.bsky.social

Fay Victor, in a long black and white striped dress, on stage at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival

Saoundtrack: Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK - Police Lights and Sirens (appropriately enough for these times, I suppose)

At the Hyde Park Jazz Festival last weekend, I was honored to not just hear Fay Victor, but to meet her. One of my favorite singers.

Day Listens:

McCoy Tyner - The Greeting
Joel Futterman Alvin Fielder Ike Levin Trio - Live At The Blue Monk
Other Dimensions In Music Featuring Fay Victor - Kaiso Stories
Fred Anderson Quartet - The Milwaukee Tapes, Vol. 2

Ralph Macchio! (The Karate Kid)

Thinking About Jazz Singing Today: Performances from Cecile McLorin Salvant, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gillian Margot, and Fay Victor The always-hard-to-define art of “jazz singing” is considered through four 2025 performances/recordings from disparate artists who share many qualities.

Check out Will Layman's substack piece on Jazz Singing today. Wonderful observations on current trends. Thank you for the inclusion!
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For the landmark 500th issue @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I had the honour of interviewing the great vocalist, composer & improviser Fay Victor

The Wire 500 is out now!

Featuring a special commemorative silver gatefold Wire 500 artwork by Savage Pencil, plus features on Natural Information Society, Fay Victor, OvO, Weston Olencki, Bitchin Bajas, Lea Bertucci, and many, many more.

Available to buy here:
www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Sonny Rollins was born in Harlem on this day in 1930. The Saxophone Colossus turns 95 years old today. He is the world’s greatest living improviser.

📸 David McLane/Getty Images, 1968
#SonnyRollinsBridge

This was great! Thank you🙏🏾

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mal Waldron

Giovanni Russonello: “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mal Waldron.” Includes Lafayette Gilchrist, Ran Blake, Matthew Shipp, Angelica Sanchez, Robin D.G. Kelley, Fay Victor, Andrew Cyrille, Ben Ratliff, John Szwed, Russonello, and myself. [Gift link.]
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On the turntable
Fay Victor–Herbie Nichols SUNG, Life Is Funny That Way (2024)
#vinyl #recordcollection #nowspinning
Let's see if anyone else knows about this project. A labor of love, vocalist Victor wrote lyrics for several tunes by the idiosyncratic post-bop pianist.
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Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working | Explainer YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

Reasons to be (slightly) cheerful, part 3

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Awww,thank you for listening!

Thank you so much!!

Thank you #downbeat magazine!!
Grateful for the recognition and to be amongst these incredible artists.🙏🏾🙌🏾

I’m so sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace. Amazingly, I have the same birthday as your mom. 🙏🏾❤️

JUST ANNOUNCED!
Herbie Nichols SUNG on the Hyde Park Jazz Festival
September 27, 2025 at the Logan Arts Center. Nice pic of us from the Kennedy Center in May by #jatiphoto, Brad Linde sitting in for #michaelattias #anthonycoleman #ratzoharris #tomrainey #marylouwilliamsJF

This. ⤵️⤵️

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