Most Popular
-
Getting Off Attorney Tyler Flood says he wins 80 percent of his clients' DWI trials, even if they were 100 percent drunk as a skunk.
-
City of Coffee Is Houston about to become America's coffee capital?
-
Looking for a Bull Market Killen's Steakhouse in suburban Pearland is probably best during boom times.
-
BBQ Buffet Korea Garden Grille offers a stellar selection of barbecue items in unlimited quantities — and new and interesting ways to eat them.
-
Enough About Mi Is the authentic little Vietnamese noodle shop Banh Cuon Hoa #2 too adventurous for your tastes?
Reader's Picks
Top Recommendations
A short list of Houston's most popular hot spots.
-
Empire Cafe
Houston, TX -
Ibiza
Houston, TX -
Hugo's
Houston, TX -
Super Happy Fun Land
Houston, TX -
Ra Sushi
Houston, TX -
Notsuoh
Houston, TX
Recent Blog Posts
Friday Night Lights, Houston Style: Why Does Everyone Hate Katy So Much?
Mon Nov 23, 4:52 PM
Houston Is Somehow A "Salad City," Highly Scientific Survey Says
Mon Nov 23, 4:24 PM
Slide Show: Zappa Plays Zappa at House of Blues
Mon Nov 23, 3:45 PM
Listology: Nick Gaitan of the Octanes and The Umbrella Man's Favorite Female Vocalists
Mon Nov 23, 2:45 PM
Deep-Fried and Still Alive: 5 Culinary Practices As Cruel As the Chinese Deep-Fried Fish
Mon Nov 23, 5:00 PM
Cafe Rose in Bloom
Mon Nov 23, 4:16 PM
National Features >
City Pages
Michele Bachmann, Unmuzzled
You don't need to read Sarah Palin's book to hear the ravings of a mad woman.
By Matt Snyders
Miami New Times
Pimp Daddy
The rise and fall of a chubby sex-cult leader.
By Natalie O'Neill
Riverfront Times
Babe 'n' Arms
Tom was a hot-tempered cross-dresser with a garage full of guns--and then he became Rachel.
By Nicholas Phillips
Roseanna Vitro
Saturday, December 28
Share
By Timothy J. O'Brien
Published on December 26, 2002
If you wanted to enumerate Vitro's credentials as a premier jazz vocalist, you could fill a tome as thick as Duke Ellington's songbook. The bible of jazz periodicals, Downbeat, named her three times as "talent deserving wider recognition." She's performed at the Kennedy Center, hit the top five in the Gavin Jazz Report charts and been a member of Lionel Hampton's band. Not content to rest at the top of her field, she adventurously tackles new challenges such releasing a tribute CD to pianist Bill Evans and taping concerts for Slovenian TV. She's known for using her contralto as an instrument to swing, scat, embellish and improvise in order to make a piece her own.
Now Click This
