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Suzanne Lorge

Born: December 9

Vocalist Suzanne Lorge has three decades of performing experience on global stages, among them the prestigious Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Radio City Music Hall in her hometown of New York City. She’s also contributed to scores of albums, animated films, and commercials as a lead, guest, or backup singer. In addition, she’s recorded two solo albums, Wild Birds (2016, 2020 re-release) and Dark Sky, Waiting (2023).

While her primary mode of musical expression is contemporary jazz, over the years she’s worked across several genres. Notable collaborators include jazz pianists Frank Kimbrough, John DiMartino, and David Budway; celebrated operatic tenor Francisco Casanova; rock guitarist Paul Reed Smith; and award-winning television and theater composer Lanny Meyers.

Jay Clayton’s ScatLab—A Vocal Jazz Workout

by Suzanne Lorge
December 4, 2018

For the last decade, free-bop vocalist Jay Clayton has been conducting regular “scat labs" out of the Manhattan teaching space that she shares with NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan. In ScatLab, jazz singers of all levels of experience meet up to trade twos and fours, riff on traditional blues heads, and improvise on well-known songbook tunes. ...

Anwar Robinson: From American Idol To United Palace

by Suzanne Lorge
November 25, 2018

Anwar Robinson has the kind of voice that could stop traffic--rich, soulful, and reverberant. Beyond his innately spectacular instrument, Anwar is well-schooled in just about all vocal styles--jazz, blues, R&B, pop, musical theater, spirituals. So it's no wonder that in 2004, he moved quickly into the winners' circle on the fourth season of American Idol, one ...

On Stage at JALC: Paul Jost

by Suzanne Lorge
June 23, 2018

Paul Jost had already enjoyed a successful, decades-long career as a drummer, sideman, and leader when he decided to work solely as a jazz vocalist. Switching from player to vocalist mid-course is not a typical career path for a musician. But Jost's quick rise as a singer over the last six years--he sang at Dizzy's Club ...

Lauren Lee: On Being Uncool

by Suzanne Lorge
May 10, 2018

Lauren Lee is one of a new breed of singer-songwriter. She has all the bona fides of a traditional jazz singer and pianist, but she needs to do things her own way. As a singer and composer, she gives her imprimatur to cross-cultural experimentation and off-the-beaten-track forms of vocal expression, never straying far from the post-bop ...

Helle Henning: Nordic Sounds

by Suzanne Lorge
February 14, 2018

If you're watching the latest Disney film in jny: Copenhagen, you're most likely listening to singer Helle Henning. Helle not only sings the character overdubs for big animated film imports in her native Denmark, but she conducts the ensemble singers on these sessions. She also teaches jazz at one of Denmark's foremost music conservatories and recently ...

The Dazzling Alexis Cole

by Suzanne Lorge
October 19, 2017

Jazz singer Alexis Cole's career has been anything but conventional. She's done residencies in far-flung places like Ecuador, India, and Japan. She fronted the Army's big band for several years as a soldier herself. And now she's a faculty member in the jazz program at SUNY Purchase. With a dozen critically acclaimed albums under her belt, ...

Dara Tucker: Seeds of the Divine

by Suzanne Lorge
August 31, 2017

Rising jazz star Dara Tucker has added three new trophies to a rapidly growing lineup of awards. At this year's Nashville Industry Music Awards (NIMAs) she won Best Jazz Vocalist, Best Jazz Album, and Song of the Year for her April release, Oklahoma Rain (Watchman Music). These three awards follow closely on the heels of her ...

The Oster Welker Jazz Alliance: Shining Hour

by Suzanne Lorge
May 11, 2010

San-Francisco-based Jeff Oster has one of those happy-sounding voices that make you feel happy, too. Even a depressing kind of song like “Sophisticated Lady" leaves the impression that, after all of that “smoking-drinking-never-thinking-of-tomorrow" stuff, everything will turn out okay. But it isn't until Oster scats that you really submit to his affable sound and just want ...

Mark Murphy: Inside the Mystery

by Suzanne Lorge
July 31, 2009

Beyond its stylistic differentiators, jazz contains what vocalist Mark Murphy calls “a wonderful mystery," a mystery that was fostered in small, regional clubs around the US during the '30s-40s, when Murphy was developing the distinctive vocal style that launched his decades-long career. “I've seen this mysterious quality of jazz set rooms on fire," Murphy ...