Jazz Articles about Grace Kelly

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Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz: GRACEfulLEE

by Dan McClenaghan
July 10, 2008

Most sixteen year old musicians are honing their chops in the high school marching and concert bands. Some of the luckier ones attend a school that has a jazz band where a beginner can get a taste of improvisation. Sixteen year old alto saxophonist Grace Kelly--a testament to joyful precocious talent and a killer support system--trades licks with the legendary Phil Woods and records a CD, GRACEfullLEE, with the iconic Lee Konitz.Kelly's previous CD, Every Road I Walked ...

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Grace Kelly: Every Road I Walked

by Dan McClenaghan
March 1, 2007

Singer, songwriter and alto saxophonist Grace Kelly's photograph--and her smiling face--grace the cover of her third release, Every Road I Walked. She's about as cute as a young woman can be, but at fourteen years of age (almost fifteen), you have to wonder about her artistic maturity and depth. A clue: she's wearing Phil Woods' hat, bestowed upon her, onstage, by the alto sax legend after she'd joined him to play “I'll Remember April" at the Pittsfield City Jazz Festival ...

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'Amazing Things' for Grace Kelly

by Cassandra Cheung
July 7, 2005

Amazing Things Art Center Inc. truly lived up to its name when it brought 13-year-old singer-songwriter-saxophonist Grace Kelly to the stage the night of Saturday, June 18.

This pixie-sized prodigy wowed her audience at the Dr. Joseph A. Keefe Performing Arts Center in Natick with a stellar collection of jazz and jazz-pop crossover tunes, backed by renowned jazz artists Yoron Israel, John Lockwood, Doug Johnson and Jeremy Udden. Her debut CD Dreaming, which she is currently promoting, also ...

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Music School Directors Cheer for Grace Kelly

by Cassandra Cheung
July 7, 2005

Angelic harp melodies are not the only strains of music to be heard on a cloud. Not this cloud, at any rate. On November 20, 2004, a raw Saturday night, Cloud Place in Boston was buzzing and bustling - not only due to the many moms and dads who were preparing their artistic progeny for a performance, but also to members of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts gathering for their yearly convention. Music and dance students ...