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Vocalist Kelley Suttenfield Reimagines Neil Young On When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young
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Mouthpiece Music
Kelley Suttenfield is a versatile jazz singer with a warm, intimate voice that’s perfect for her newest project, When We Were Young – Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young (September 13, 2019). The album includes some of Neil Young’s most famous songs, as well as a couple of tunes written but never performed by him. Tackling songs that are long associated with the pop legend is an audacious endeavor; however, this is not a tribute album. Rather, Suttenfield and her collaborator ...
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Jazz Gallery Founder Dale Kelley Fitzgerald Leaves Behind Massive Legacy That Lives On In Music, Life & Through The Love Of Others
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All About Jazz
THE JAZZ GALLERY PLANS ARE UNDERWAY FOR A CELEBRATION IN THE SPIRIT OF DALE FITZGERALD IN COMING MONTHS THE GABRIEL FITZGERALD EDUCATION FUND IS FORMED Dale Kelley Fitzgerald, who co-founded New York’s prestigious Jazz Gallery in 1995 and was its Executive Director until 2009, died on March 20 at Calvary Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., after a long struggle with cancer. He was 72. A strapping man with a well-trimmed goatee, Mr. Fitzgerald possessed an impeccably cool demeanor, a fiery spirit, ...
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Kelley Suttenfield New CD "Among The Stars” -- Out Now!
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Kelley Suttenfield
Among The Stars is the second release for acoustic jazz vocalist Kelley Suttenfield. Known for her “passionate delivery that can penetrate hearts" (JazzReview), once again she embarks on a musical exploration—this time traversing through jazz and singer-songwriter territories, and landing squarely in the space between. This stripped-down and exceptionally intimate duo recording is a stark contrast to her multi-layered and well received debut CD Where Is Love? Complemented by the “beautiful and soulful" timbre of guitarist Tony Romano (Just Jazz ...
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The Peck Kelley Story On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
Peck Kelley is an iconic figure among jazz musicians, but remains virtually unknown outside a small circle of aficionados. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to tell the story of Peck Kelley and revive the East Texas hot jazz of Peck’s Bad Boys. The broadcast offers listeners an opportunity to listen to a rare recording of Peck Kelley’s piano playing and hear Hyman’s comments on the piano playing of the Texas ...
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Jazz This Week: St. Louis Cabaret Festival with Marilyn Maye, American Music Showcase, Kelley Hunt, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This weekend may mark the beginning of the dog days of summer, but it's one of the busiest times of the year for Cabaret Project St. Louis, as the organization presents its annual St. Louis Cabaret Festival and conference this week. In addition to a week's worth of educational programs for prospective singers, there are four nights of performances on tap, starting this evening as singer and pianist Billy Stritch performs songs associated with Mel Torme at the Bistro at ...
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Everette Devan And Pat Kelley July 5th In The Blue Room
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C. L. Burnett, American Jazz Museum
This Friday the Blue Room Jazz Club at the American Jazz Museum welcomes Everette DeVan and Pat Kelley. Everette DeVan grew up in Pueblo, Colorado where he attended the Colorado Conservatory of Music. He came to Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 18 and has made this his home ever since. He has been a featured Jazz Organist, well known locally, nationally and internationally for his long-standing contributions to the Jazz tradition. He was designated a State of Missouri ...
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Kelley Suttenfield To Perform At Jazz At Kitano, Wednesday July 3
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Kelley Suttenfield
Kelley Suttenfield in Concert Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 8 & 10pm Featuring: Kelley Suttenfield, voice Michael Cabe, piano Tosh Sheridan, guitar Matt Aronoff, bass Brian Adler, drums Jazz at Kitano 66 Park Avenue (@ 38th St), New York, NY Sets at 8 & 10pm, $10 cover, $15 minimum Reservations strongly advised, tel: 212-885-7119 “Once [Suttenfield] arrived on the bandstand, she immediately made her mark...her ...
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Kelley Suttenfield: Mondays With The Masters Concert Series - 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10
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Kelley Suttenfield
On four consecutive Mondays this Fall, jazz vocalist Kelley Suttenfield will take to the stage of the Metropolitan Room in a series called “Mondays with the Masters." Suttenfield, New York based with Southern roots, is known internationally as an offbeat, jazz storyteller with an unusual spin on American music, and a diverse repertoire ranging from the Beatles, to Brazilian standards and beyond. She expanded her fan base recently to London, where she debuted at Ronnie Scott's in January 2011. She ...
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Kelley Suttenfield Band at The Kitano on August 10th, Sets at 8 & 10pm
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 8-11:15pm Kelley Suttenfield Band in Concert Featuring: Kelley Suttenfield, voice Michael Cabe, piano Tony Romano, guitar Matt Aronoff, bass Brian Adler, drums at The KITANO 66 Park Avenue (@ 38th St), New York, NY Sets at 8 & 10pm, no cover, $15 minimum Reservations strongly advised, tel: 212-885-7119 “Once [Suttenfield] arrived on the bandstand, she immediately made her ...
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Acclaimed Author Robin D.G. Kelley Lectures on "The 'Un-Years': Thelonious Monk in the 1950s" at the Kimmel Center
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Victor L. Schermer
On April 9, 2011, at the initiation of All About Jazz writer Vic Schermer, Robin Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original visited Philadelphia and delivered a lecture on Monk. Kelley's 60 minute talk focused on a turbulent period in Monk's life—the 1950s—when his music was misunderstood, and he also suffered a series of personal setbacks, including an arrest, the revocation of his cabaret card, and near financial ruin, only to create some of ...
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