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Ella Gahnt

Born: May 7

The Elegant Ella Gahnt, Jazz vocalist and arranger, has been performing professionally since the age of 18 and is finally living her dream by performing the songs she loves. Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, she has studied piano, voice, guitar, saxophone, and music theory at Granoff and Settlement Music schools, and PCPA - now University of The Arts, and continues private instruction with her husband Leon Mitchell - composer, arranger, vocal coach, and musical director of The Philadelphia Legends of Jazz Orchestra.

Ella has worked as vocalist and music copyist on recordings with many popular artists like Grover Washington, Jr., The Stylistics, and Pieces of a Dream. Ella has performed as jazz vocalist throughout the East Coast with jazz groups led by Sam Reed, Roger Prieto, Tony Williams, Sam Dockery, Butch Ballard, Gerald Smith, and her own E.G. Trio/Quartet. Ella has performed at the PECO Energy & Afro-American Museum’s "Jazz 'til Sunrise" Festival, and a concert entitled "Just Us" along with vocalist Pearl Williams at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia, PA. Ella and her trio performed a memorable concert in the Perelman Theatre of the famed Kimmel Center during their Summer Solstice Celebration. In March 2005, Ella was named “Jazz Ambassador” by the School District of Philadelphia along with her husband Leon Mitchell.

Voices of the People: Philadelphia Jazz Project to Celebrate America’s Cherished Values

by Victor L. Schermer
June 29, 2017

The famed Philadelphia Jazz Project (PJP) has a tradition of organizing and presenting concerts in fresh, imaginative, and creative ways. It is a stimulus program whose mission is to generate interest in and responsiveness to the music and to locally-based musicians. The upcoming series, “Voices of the People," four concerts featuring Philadelphia vocalists, is designed for ...

Ella Gahnt: Third Stage of Elegance

by C. Michael Bailey
May 6, 2017

Modern composers of jazz vocal pieces have much to contend with: first, the Great American Song Book. Jazz was largely developed from learned reinterpretation of Tin Pan Alley standards composed as showtunes in the 1930s through '50s. That is a dearth of music already existing that anything newly composed is compared against. So, hats off to ...

Third Stage of Elegance

By Ella Gahnt

Label: Inner Fire Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: What You’ll Hear from Me; Let It Be Yesterday; Butterfly; To Be; A Gloomy Day; Some Other Spring; When You Walk Away; What Would it Take; The Golden Years.

DivaNation Showcases "A Sisterhood of Singers"

September 18, 2014

By Nathea Lee The Philadelphia Jazz Project set out to see what would happen if they brought together a diverse array of vocalists, created a nurturing environment where seasoned performers could mentor younger singers, and gave them all the opportunity to perform on one of the City's premier stages. The result is DivaNation, “a sisterhood of ...

The 2013 Jazz Bridge Calendar: A Great Day In Philadelphia!

December 6, 2012

Author/jazz historian Nat Hentoff describes the Jazz Bridge Calendar as a treasure and collector’s item. And indeed it is. Beautifully designed by bassist/graphic artist Kathy Ridl, the brand-new 2013 edition honors saxophonists Ken Ulansey, Bobby Zankel, John Coltrane and Tim Warfield; vocalists Joanna Pascale and Ella Gahnt; bassists Jimmy Garrison and Henry Grimes; drummer Billy James; ...

Ella Gahnt In Old City Phila. On Thurs. Nov. 15th!

October 31, 2012

Appearing at Jazz Bridge in Old City! – at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House on 4th and Arch St. on November 15th — is singer Ella Gahnt. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 610-745-3011. Jazz Bridge, a 501C public charity that assists area jazz and blues ...

Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates Iconic Artists and Composers in Weekly Jazz and Classical Music Series

January 31, 2012

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Audiences are invited to experience music and art together at Woodmere Art Museum in historic Chestnut Hill. Woodmere's popular Friday Night Jazz and Classic Sundays series return every weekend for two months beginning February 10. Performed in the Museum's grand Kuch Gallery, visitors can tour FORCE OF NATURE—Elaine Kurtz: A Retrospective and Elemental: Nature ...

All-Star, All-Women Jazz Jam at LaRose Jazz Club on December 11th

November 26, 2011

Jazz Bridge and the Sunday Sessions at LaRose Jazz Club, 5531 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA, will join together on Sunday December 11th to raise money for women jazz and blues musicians in crisis and for the wives of jazz and blues musicians. Showtime: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tickets: $20.00 For info call 215-517-8337. Appearing that ...

Tom Warner: Honoring the Legacy

by Victor L. Schermer
May 6, 2009

Tom Warner recently replaced Mervon Mehta as vice-president of programming for the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, when the latter took the head position at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Among his eclectic musical tastes, the accessible, warm and articulate Warner has a strong interest in jazz.