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Sherri Roberts

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When you listen to Sherri's thoughtful way with a vocal line, or her vibrant sense of swing, or her effortless embodiment of a song's emotion, it's hard not to notice the extent of her affection for her songs. Sherri Roberts was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and received a B.A. in theatre from Antioch College in Ohio. It was there she was first introduced to jazz studies - its history and repertoire - as well as early Renaissance choral music and the 20th Century avant garde. Upon relocating to San Francisco, she became involved in both theatre performance and management, while never abandoning her love of singing and her growing interest in jazz

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Anybody's Spring

Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2017
Track listing: It’s Anybody’s Spring; Spring Sprang Sprung; They Say It’s Spring; It Might As Well Be Spring; After All It’s Spring; Joy Spring; Double Rainbow; Now At Last; One Morning In May; Lady Bird; While We’re Young; Spring Isn’t Everything.

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Article: Album Review

Sherri Roberts: Anybody's Spring

Read "Anybody's Spring" reviewed by Geannine Reid


Vocalist Sherri Roberts brings the joy and promise of new beginnings with twelve standards, that offer a spring theme with her 2017 release, Anybody's Spring. Selections come from the jazz compositions of Clifford Brown and Tadd Dameron to the standard and not-so-standard fare of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, and Blossom Dearie favorite Bob Haymes, the ...

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Lovely Days

Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: It’s a Lovely Day Today/ Isn’t it a Lovely Day; Nice ‘N’ Easy; Soon It’s Gonna Rain; Heart and Soul; We Kiss in a Shadow/ I Have Dreamed; Our Love Rolls On; I’m All Smiles; Come Dance With Me; Like A Lover; Moon River; Hit The Road To Dreamland.

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Article: Album Review

Sherri Roberts with Bliss Rodriguez: Lovely Days

Read "Lovely Days" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Sherri Roberts has built her reputation with a trio of well-produced albums featuring top-notch players like pianist Mark Soskin, saxophonist Phil Woods and bassist Harvie S, but her fourth album finds the Bay Area-based vocalist expanding her horizons by trimming down the personnel list. Lovely Days gives Roberts a chance to work in a more open ...

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Article: Album Review

Sherri Roberts: Lovely Days

Read "Lovely Days" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Lovely Days is a “classical" piano-vocals recital. It is classical in the respect of that this spare pairing is time tested and well respected across musical genres. Bay-area vocalist Sherri Roberts downsizes from her previous three recordings to a duo setting with pianist Bliss Rodriguez. Robert's repertoire comes directly from the Great American Songbook, first half ...

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News: Recording

"Lovely Days," New Duo Album By Vocalist Sherri Roberts With Pianist Bliss Rodriguez, Due Jan. 15

"Lovely Days," New Duo Album By Vocalist Sherri Roberts With Pianist Bliss Rodriguez, Due Jan. 15

On her three previous albums, San Francisco vocalist Sherri Roberts collaborated with jazz masters like Phil Woods, Chris Potter, Lew Soloff, and bassist Harvie S, who also presided as producer/arranger for the highly-regarded small-group sessions. Roberts takes a different tack on Lovely Days, her fourth album as a leader and her second for Blue House Recordings/Pacific ...

Album

The Sky Could Send You

Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. You're Looking at Me (Bobby Troupe) - 5:08; 02. Jamaica Farewell (Irving Burgie) - 4:32; 03. Before (Harvie S/Sherri Roberts) - 3:51; 04. Let Me (Baden Powell/Norman Gimbell) - 4:10; 05. Tell Me My Name (Roger Kellaway/Gene Lees) - 3:24; 06. The Moon's a Harsh Mistress (Jimmy Webb) - 3:56; 07. Return to Paradise (Dimitri Tomkin/Ned Washington) - 4:40; 08. You're Nearer (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart) - 5:20; 09. Do It the Hard Way (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart) - 4:01; 10. Slow Hot Wind (Henry Mancini/Norman Gimbel) - 4:28; 11. Far from New York (Larry Baskett) - 4:50; 12. Por toda minha vida (Antonio Carlos Jobim/Vibicius De Moraes) - 3:10

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Harvie S: Give The Bassman Some

Read "Harvie S: Give The Bassman Some" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Bassist Harvie S's name is becoming practically synonymous with Latin jazz. Two recent recordings find the mercurial S wearing different musical hats, first leading his own band, then playing on and producing vocalist Sherri Roberts' disc. Harvie S Funky Cha Zoho Music 2006 In ...

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Article: Album Review

Sherri Roberts: The Sky Could Send You

Read "The Sky Could Send You" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


The Sky Could Send You è un disco mainstream che riesce a sorprendere e deliziare gli ascoltatori per il gusto e l'eleganza del contenuto. Sherri Roberts ed il contrabbassista e produttore del disco, Harvie S, ci offrono una serie di canzoni ben scelte nell'immenso repertorio a loro disposizione e arrangiate con particulare cura nei confronti del ...


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