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Carolyn Lee Jones
Member Since: 2008 | Location: Dallas | Page Views: 3,861 
About Me
A sophisticated jazz vocalist with a sense of style all her own.
Born and raised in Nebraska, Jones moved to Dallas as a young adult and began a successful career in retailing traveling the world as a Buyer for luxury stores. Fortunately, she had opportunities to perform while on the road for her day job. Opportunities arose performing with a trio at numerous intimate NYC cabarets with noted NYC musicians ; Ted Firth (p), Wells Hanley (p) , Saadi Zain (b) Paul Beaudry (b) and Jacob Melchior (d ). Trudi Mann a well known vocalist was Jones' mentor. Five Album Releases - 2008 Bon Appetite! / featuring the late great Bob Dorough arranging, singing and playing on 3 songs, 2013 The Performer / title track by Kenny Vance, 2016 In A Long White Room / celebrating the pop genre with a jazz sensibility, 2019 Close Your Eyes / all about love in it's many stages 2021 Christmas Time Is Here / some old favorites & a few very seldom heard Five Single Releases - Sister Sadie / A Child is Born / You'd Be So Nice To Come Home to / I Never Meant To Hurt You- White Christmas 2008 to current - Independent label / Catn'round Sound. 2018 to present - THE SATIN DOLLS BAND - my all female jazz quintet 2008 to present - FRESH VINTAGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE - duo to big band Awards - 2017 - The Sammons Center For The Arts / Dallas, TX - “Cabaret Artist Of The Year”. Cabaret- Jazz Shows 2012 to present- Developed and performed six themed shows for the Sammons Center For The Arts / Dallas Cabaret Series 2012 -Songs From My Mother's Piano Bench ( from my mother's original sheet music ), 2014 -Too Marvelous For Words ( the music of Johnny Mercer ), 2015 - I'd Rather Lead A Band - ( jazz and more jazz), ( Denise Lee Cabaret Series ) 2017- Girl Talk ( the music of Bobby Troup and Julie London), 2019 -Hooray For The Girls ( celebrating female composers and lyricists of the 20th century) 2024 - In Development - Ladies Of The Night ( celebrating female jazz singers from the 20th century )
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