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Judy Carmichael
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About Me
Grammy nominated pianist/radio host, Judy Carmichael is one of the world’s leading interpreters of stride piano and swing.
“Judy Carmichael is a great entertainer. Her playing is masterly and her linking material show her to be a raconteur in the Ustinov mold.” BBC Radio “Judy is a one-woman force for good; more to the point, she’s a player of extraordinary accomplishment who has made stride piano relevant again. London Times “ . . . astounding, flawless, captivating.” NY Times ”Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired” celebrates 26 years on NPR stations in 2026. Judy produces and hosts the show talking with everyone from Tony Bennett to Seth MacFarlane about their love of jazz and how it inspires them. ”Bright, breezy, intelligent, assured: hallmark adjectives of Judy Carmichael’s celebrated dual careers as one of the foremost stride pianists of the past half-century and host of the long-running radio series, Jazz Inspired. Also apt descriptors for Carmichael’s recently published memoir, “Swinger!” a delightful, circuitously episodic exploration of her life in and out of jazz.” -- JazzTimes “Judy Carmichael exhibits a truly remarkable ability to channel Peggy Lee's breathy invitingness and her befogged insouciance. (She also) echoes the intense perspicacity of the solo albums of Annie Ross. In other words, she winningly blends two of the all-time finest, most intuitive jazz singers.” -- JazzTimes Grammy nominated pianist Judy Carmichael is one of the world’s leading interpreters of stride piano and swing. Count Basie nicknamed her “Stride”, acknowledging the command with which she plays this technically and physically demanding jazz piano style. Judy Carmichael has played the major concert halls and festivals around the world from Carnegie Hall to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice (the first concert ever presented by the museum) to programs with Jools Holland, Melissa Etheridge, Leslie Garrett, Joel Grey, Michael Feinstein, Steve Ross and the Smothers Brothers. In addition, Ms. Carmichael has done comic skits and performed her music on radio and TV (Jo Soares in Brazil, Entertainment Tonight in the U.S. and others) and performed private recitals for everyone from Rod Stewart and Robert Redford to President Clinton and Gianni Agnelli. Ms. Carmichael has appeared frequently on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, Entertainment Tonight, CBS' Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt and with Charles Osgood, Mornings With Margaret Throsby for the Australia Broadcast Corporation and the BBC’s Loose Ends, In Tune, Up All Night, Woman’s Hour and numerous other shows. Judy Carmichael has served on a variety of music panels at the National Endowment for the Arts, spoken before the Presidentially appointed National Council on the Arts advocating for individual fellowship grants, and was the firs woman jazz pianist honored as a Steinway Artist and was the first women instrumentalist hired by Disneyland. Ms. Carmichael is included in “The Encyclopedia of Jazz” “Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists”, “Who's Who in the East”, “Who's Who in Finance and Industry in America”, “Who's Who in American Woman”, “American Women in Jazz”, “Who's Who in the World” as well as the “Encyclopedia of Jazz.”
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This page was last updated on 2026-03-12.
