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Singer and jazz organist Adrienne Hindmarsh is a truly unique talent on today’s music scene. With today’s musicians learning jazz within the classroom, it has become an exception rather than the rule for a musician develop and learn “on the road”, playing clubs and festivals and touring. Born in New Zealand into a musical family, Adrienne acquired her first organ in 2003 when she imported a Hammond C3 from Canada and with no jazz organ players in her country she taught herself to play by copying recordings by Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Groove Holmes and Jack McDuff. After performed clubs and festivals throughout New Zealand and Australia, Adrienne moved to the USA in 2009. During a year spent in the Midwest, performing at Hammond organ summits, club gigs and jam sessions in Cincinnati, Detroit, Dayton and Columbus, Adrienne further developed her sound on the bandstand. It was during this time Adrienne noticed she was the only female instrumentalist on the bandstand, and it wasn’t until she moved to New York she found other strong female performers on the scene. Now based in New York, where she is actively performs throughout the city, Adrienne continues to thrive with her originality and talent. She has CD's released on HMV Japan and Ode Records New Zealand, and her latest CD release “Blues Skies” is set to be a runaway success.

Adrienne has shared the stage with Joey Defrancesco, Sherrie Maricle, Bruce Forman, Victor Jones, Tony Monaco, and and headlined at jazz clubs including THE DEER HEAD INN, CLIFF BELLS (Detroit), THE BLUE WISP (Cincinnati) and JAZZ CENTRAL (Dayton Ohio), and performed in New York clubs including MINTON'S, the GARAGE, and the IRIDIUM (as a special guest with Joey Defrancesco).

Jazz this week: St. Louis Cabaret Festival, Houston Person & Montez Coleman, New Orleans Jazz Vipers, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 21, 2016

As your humble StLJN editor this week has been both swamped with paying-gig-type work and plagued by various equipment malfunctions, and this post is already late, this intro will be both mercifully brief and without embellishment. Here are some of the more noteworthy jazz and creative music performances happening in and around St. Louis over the next few days: Wednesday, July 20 Saxophonist and East St. Louis native Andre Delano, now based on the West Coast, is back in town ...
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Interview

The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn receive praise for infectious brew of Dixieland jazz, swing, and classic blues

Source: Lauren Rogers
May 2, 2011

Getting thumbs up from a music legend is like a badge of honor, and the Blue Vipers of Brooklyn wear it well. On June 11, 2007, country icon Willie Nelson raved, “The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn provided fantastic entertainment." It's not hard to see what impressed Nelson. The Blue Vipers deliver a potent sting, an infectious brew of Dixieland jazz, swing, and classic blues. Although based in New York, the Blue Vipers' latest album, Permanent Magic, is steeped in the ...
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Performance / Tour

The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn Tour - July 2008

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2008

Friday July 25 8PM to 9PM Swing Dance Lesson 9PM to 12AM Band Performance Swing Dance hosted by Midtownstomp Eastern Star Ballroom 2719 K Street, Sacramento, California 95816 916-221-1500

Saturday July 26 at 2PM Live in store concert at Amoeba Music Berkeley 2455 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley, California 94704 (510) 549-1125 Cost: Free

Saturday July 26 - ...
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Recording

The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn CD Release Party and Swing Dance at 92nd St. Y in NYC

Source: All About Jazz
October 29, 2007

The Blue Vipers Of Brooklyn THE BLUE VIPERS OF BROOKLYN'S CD RELEASE PARTY/DANCE HOSTED BY 92ND STREET Y AND SWING DANCE SWING.

Saturday, November 10th, 2007, 7PM-1AM

92nd Street Y on Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street

New York City

Admission $15/$12 Students w/valid ID

The 92nd Street Y's Harkness Dance Center and local dance promoters Swing Dance Swing will host a dance on Saturday, November 10th featuring one of most fun and talented swing band's in ...
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The world’s top organist JOEY DEFRANCESCO has this to say: ”Adrienne has a groove on the organ that I really enjoy, and she sings beautifully also, I'm really a fan”

Noted jazz critic and author SCOTT YANOW writes: “Adrienne Hindmarsh is an outstanding talent....Ms. Hindmarsh keeps the legacy of soul jazz/hard bop organists alive while also offering something new. How many organists play in the tradition of Jimmy Smith while also singing like a jazz vocalist from the 1950s? .... (Jazz Around Town- LA Jazz Scene August 2009).