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Ledesna
Have Voice, Will Travel. Polyglot. Stage Mage. Quintuple Threat. Sonic Curator.
About Me
JENNIFER JADE LEDESNA
Grammy-nominated stage mage & Bronxite
polyglot, is an alumna of New School Jazz &
LaGuardia Arts. A Montreux Jazz Voice
Competition Finalist, Equity actress, & “Betty
Carter Jazz Ahead” composer, Ms. Jade often
performs at “Aux Trois Mailletz” in Paris, “Jazz Na
Avenida” in Brazil, & the she was also the first &
former Afro-Latina Artistic Director of the
legendary “Minton’s Playhouse” in Harlem, NYC.
She's sung at Carnegie Hall in Bobby McFerrin’s
“INSTANT OPERA!”, in the World Premiere Tour
of “CHAPEL/CHAPTER” w the Bill T. Jones /
Arnie Zane Dance Co. JJ’s also graced the
international stages of Switzerland’s CHORUS
Jazz Club, Norway's “Silda Jazz Fest” w her group
”RAJAFRO”, Saint Croix's “Take Five Fest”,
Santiago de Chile's “Teatro Municipal de Las
Condes”, Austria's PORGY & BESS, & Lincoln
Center, to name a few.
JJ recently starrred as Tempest in the feature film
SINCE I LEFT YOU, Jade in the film
MEADOWLARK, “Tinima” in the opera-musical
HATUEY: MEMORY OF FIRE!, & “The Angel / Jazz
Singer” in the world premiere of the “SUGAR
HILL NUTCRACKER” by Ellington & Strayhorn!
She’s performed with Roy Hargrove, David
Amram, Elew, Dave Valentin, Bobby Sanabria,
Wycliffe Gordon, Joatan Nascimento, Junior
Mance, James Carter, Benny Powell, Candido
Camero, Janis Siegel, Wynton Marsalis, Brenda
Braxton, & David Antonio Cruz, among others.
Check out her album “TRUTH!”
