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Lenora Zenzalai Helm
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Throughout her 40+-year span of musical achievements as a Jazz Vocal Musician specializing in Classic, Traditional standard jazz, Lenora (Zenzalai) Helm Hammonds has toured, recorded, and performed with her various groups, on international jazz stages, venues and festivals, as well as featured guest artist with renowned jazz icons. Her career as a vocal musician has encompassed time as a lyricist, guest artist, background singer, composer, and educator at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Lenora Z. Helm Hammonds is a Chicago IL native, Former U.S. Jazz Ambassador two-time Fulbright Senior Music Specialist, and a tenured, Associate Professor in the Department of Music and Jazz Studies Program at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in vocal jazz performance, jazz ear training, jazz pedagogy and songwriting, Director of NCCU Vocal Jazz Ensemble (NCCU’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble received the Best Choir 2018-19 award from HBCU Digest), and has authored several academic and student initiatives, including the planning, design, and coordination of an NEA-sponsored Teaching Artist Certificate program. Academic award highlights include a Duke University-NCCU John Hope Franklin Digital Humanities Fellowship, 2018 Javett Music Award International Jazz Scholar at University of Pretoria, South Africa, a 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Publishing, NCCU’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and receiving the highest faculty honor, the 2021 University of North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. Lenora’s dream for creating access to under-served global populations interested in vocal jazz education was realized in the creation of a library of online vocal training programs at www.LenoraHelm.online. Her research interests are at the intersection of digital humanities, intercultural competence, and Jazz, and is a published author with Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and Springer.A 2018 inaugural Javett International Scholar in Jazz for University of Pretoria, during her time as a musician, Helm Hammonds has earned recognition as: a quarter-finalist for the GRAMMY Music Educator of the Year Award, a Salzburg Global Citizenship Fellow, a UNC Global Educator Fellow, a Fulbright Senior Music Specialist, and the former US Jazz Ambassador under the State Department and Kennedy Center. Leadership roles in jazz include, Vice President, Area Unit Leadership, North Carolina, for Jazz Education Network (JEN). Additionally, she is a member of the esteemed Jazz Vocal Advisory Board for Juilliard Jazz, Juilliard, NYC, and is vocal jazz faculty during summers for Brevard Jazz Institute, Brevard, NC.
New Releases - Jocelyn Gould, Tina Raymond, Michelle Lordi, Chien Chien Lu, Hiromi, Joni Mitchell & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
Today's broadcast includes new releases from ((Laila Biali}}, Jocelyn Gould, Tina Raymond, Michelle Lordi, Chien Chien Lu, Hiromi, Arina Fujiwara plus a fun single from Nicole Zuraitis, with birthday shoutouts to Maria Muldaur, Abelita Mateus, Roxana Amed, Emily Takahashi, Hyuna Park and Tania Grubbs, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear ...
Puccini: A Walk In the Clouds
By Dave Liebman
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Opera: La Boheme Aria: Quando M’en Vo (Musetta’s Waltz); Opera: Tosca Aria: Come
E Lunga L’Attesa (How Long
The Wait); Opera: Turandot Aria: Nessum Dorma (None Shall Sleep); Opera: Tosca
Aria: E Luce Van Le Stelle (The
Stars Were Shining); Opera: Tosca Aria: Tre Sbirri (Three Agents); Opera: Gianni
Schicci Aria: O Mio Babbino Caro
(Oh, My Beloved Daddy); Opera: Turandot Aria: In Questa Reggia (Within This Place);
Opera: Madame Butterfly Aria:
Un Bel Di, Vedremo (One Fine Day He’ll Come); Opera: Madame Butterfly Aria:
Vogliamenti Bene (Love Me, Please);
Opera: Madame Butterfly Aria: Ancora Un Passo (One More Step); Opera: Tosca Aria:
Vissi D’Arte (I Lived For Music
and Love).
To A New Day - a Lockdown Broadcast
by Mary Foster Conklin
A special two hour remote broadcast of A Broad Spectrum -includes new releases from pianists Connie Han and Emie R. Roussel, guitarist Jocelyn Gould, vocalists Laila Biali, Thana Alexa, Lenora Zenzalai Helm and trumpetists Rachel Therrien and Jeremy Pelt , with a belated birthday shoutout to Jazz Master Bobby McFerrin. Playlist Connie Han “Mr. ...
Vocal Jazz Master Lenora Zenzalai Helm Makes First Trek To Aruba To Perform And Teach For Island’s 10th International Jazz Day Celebration
April 30 Performance to Include Professionals, Local and American Students Lenora Zenzalai Helm – singer, composer and music education innovator as creator of the programs Vocal Jazz Online and The Vocal Musicianship Academy – has been chosen as the exclusive musical guest/artist in residence for the commemorative 10th Annual International Jazz Day in Aruba, taking place ...
Durham Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation Of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” For The Walltown Children's Theatre In Durham, NC
Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” Holiday-Themed Program Runs at the Walltown Children’s Theater In Durham, North Carolina Weekend of Thursday December 12 – Sunday December 15 Young people and adults alike in Durham, North Carolina, will soon be touched by the mastery and magic of Lenora ...
Jazz Vocal Veteran Lenora Zenzalai Helm Launches Web Programs "Vocal Jazz Online" And "The Vocal Musicianship Academy" For Serious Singers In Search Of A Career In Music
Former U.S. Jazz Ambassador and Berklee College of Music Grad Shares Her Passion of Singing with Up and Coming Artists “Lenora Zenzalai Helm possesses an astonishing voice…she improvises harmonic changes with undeniable ingenuity..." —Geoffrey Himes, the Washington Post Lenora Zenzalai Helm is making it possible for people that say they want to be a “singer” to ...
Lenora Zenzalai Helm's New CD: "I Love Myself When I'm Laughing..." Available Now
Lenora Zenzalai Helm Releases New CD I Love Myself When I'm Laughing ...And Then Again When I'm Looking Mean and Impressive NEW YORK, NY: There comes a point in an artist's life when she hits her stride: when all of the musical, artistic and emotional elements align themselves perfectly in that artist's orbit; making her shine ...
Precipice
Label: Baoule Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Falling Down 2. Every Time We Say Goodbye 3. Wise One/Precipice
4. But Not For Me 5. Three Little Words 6. Out of Ashes
7. Highwire 8. Says My Heart 9. Just Go 10. T.G.T.T.
11. Cheek To Cheek 12. Autumns
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