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Shelley Neill

Shelley Neill was born in the culturally rich rough and tumble Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey in the 1950’s, and abandoned by her Irish Catholic mother and Hungarian father at birth. She was adopted, as an infant, into a Jewish family that had grown up and lived in Newark. She considers herself “a child of Newark.” Her most vivid childhood memories of Newark in the 1950’s - cobblestone streets, people speaking in English, Yiddish, and Italian, horse-drawn vegetable carts, streets with names that sounded strange – Peshein Avenue and Demerest Street – where her grandparents lived - egg kindlers, fresh-killed chickens, Silverman’s Bakery, chocolate egg creams, family circle meetings, chain-link fenced school playgrounds

Jazz Vocalist Shelley Neill Performing at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center on Friday, April 1

April 1, 2011

Premier jazz vocalist Shelley Neill and her masterful band of musicians from Berklee College of Music are performing on Friday, April 1, 2011 at the Jazz Club at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge Massachusetts, starting at 8:00 p.m.. Tickets to the show are $15-$20 and can be ordered online. The doors open at 7:00 p.m. ...

Shelley Neill Kicks of 2011 Jazz Series at Cambridge's Multicultural Arts Center on January 21

January 19, 2011

Acclaimed vocalist Shelley Neill performs this Friday, January 21, at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.). Neill is being joined by ace Berklee musicians Laszlo Gardony on piano, Ron Mahdi on bass and Yoron Israel on drums. Tickets to the show are $20 and $15 and are ...

The Currency Is Heat

By Shelley Neill

Label: Cobalt Blue Music
Released: 2010

Envisioning Blue

By Shelley Neill

Label: Cobalt Blue Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: I'll Close My Eyes, Fever/Comes Love, Now's the Time, At Last, It was Written in the Stars, Am I Blue, Don't Explain, Me and the Blues, Something's Got A Hold On Me, Empty Bed Blues

Shelley Neill: Envisioning Blue

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 6, 2003

I approached Shelley Neill's latest with very positive expectations after reading all positive reviews for her previous work ( Diaphonous Apertures, 1996; Music Sweet Music, 1999; and The Blues Run Through It, 2001). Neill is an acquired taste: in some of her performances are passable, some are pretty decent and others are irritating. ...

The Blues Run Through It

By Shelley Neill

Label: Cobalt Blue Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Dark Shadows 2. It Was Written In The Stars 3.Stormy Weather 4.Hello Stranger 5.Is You Is Or Is You Ain't 6.Nobodys' Business 7.Do Your Duty 8. Downhearted Blues 9.Strange Fruit 10. Prelude To a Kiss

Shelley Neill: The Blues Run Through It

by Stephen Koch
May 3, 2002

Shelley revisits a theme that was present on her some cuts of her previous cd,"Music, Sweet Music". In doing so she pays homage to early blues singers and composers. Her personal vision works exceeedingly well as she enlists a stellar line up of musicians to make it happen. “Dark Shadows" opens the set and gets a ...

Music Sweet Music

By Shelley Neill

Label: Cobalt Blue Music
Released: 1999

Shelley Neill: Music Sweet Music

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 1999

What I admire most about Shelley Neill’s Music Sweet Music is her splendid choice of material. And next to that, the enterprising rhythm section (especially pianist Laszlo Gardony). No, that doesn’t say much for the singer, but when one finds himself looking forward to the piano solos, that speaks volumes. It troubles me to appraise anyone ...