Tahna Running
“Voices and Songs" Series
Monday, July 24th
At the
Jazz Standard
116 E. 27 St. (Lex/Park)
212 576-2232
2 Sets @ 7:30 & 9:30pm
Doors Open at 6:45
$16.26 Music Charge w/tax
featuring
Tahna Running - vocals
Alva Nelson - bass
Warren Benbow - drums
About Tahna Running
Tahna's primary musical foundation and influence stems, naturally, from her parents, being they're both professional musicians. Early in her teens, Tahna saw Thelonius Monk, Mingus, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon and even Miles Davis - “LIVE". A couple of years later, just before his untimely devise, she was invited to perform with Eddie Jefferson on a few of his gigs. Eddie Jefferson is still her number one most favorite “Jazz" Star and personality. She feels his brilliance was doubly highlighted by a gracious humility not unlike that of Louis Armstrong, together with an unmatchable joy of spirit, which had you “hooked" into his dancing charismatic originality. It was never a conscious decision, for Tahna to become a “Jazz Singer" per se, but having been around Eddie Jefferson and having “SEEN" originality improvised on such a high level, by this Legend of socalled “JAZZ"... WHAT ELSE would a singer want to strive towards, after “WITNESSING" that kind of “Music Educator".
Special Compilation CDs available for sale, at the Jazz Standard, night of show.
“Voices and Songs" Series
Monday, July 24th
At the
Jazz Standard
116 E. 27 St. (Lex/Park)
212 576-2232
2 Sets @ 7:30 & 9:30pm
Doors Open at 6:45
$16.26 Music Charge w/tax
featuring
Tahna Running - vocals
Alva Nelson - bass
Warren Benbow - drums
About Tahna Running
Tahna's primary musical foundation and influence stems, naturally, from her parents, being they're both professional musicians. Early in her teens, Tahna saw Thelonius Monk, Mingus, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon and even Miles Davis - “LIVE". A couple of years later, just before his untimely devise, she was invited to perform with Eddie Jefferson on a few of his gigs. Eddie Jefferson is still her number one most favorite “Jazz" Star and personality. She feels his brilliance was doubly highlighted by a gracious humility not unlike that of Louis Armstrong, together with an unmatchable joy of spirit, which had you “hooked" into his dancing charismatic originality. It was never a conscious decision, for Tahna to become a “Jazz Singer" per se, but having been around Eddie Jefferson and having “SEEN" originality improvised on such a high level, by this Legend of socalled “JAZZ"... WHAT ELSE would a singer want to strive towards, after “WITNESSING" that kind of “Music Educator".
Special Compilation CDs available for sale, at the Jazz Standard, night of show.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
