Results for "Anaïs Reno"

Meet Vocalist Anais Reno

by Sanford Josephson
March 1, 2022

When she was eight years old, Anais Reno (now 18) began taking voice lessons from singer/songwriter Sarah Tolar. “I feel very grateful to her," Reno said, “because after a couple of months of working together, she sensed that maybe some older American Songbook music would be good for me. So, she started to give me songs ...

Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen

By Anaïs Reno

Label: Harbinger Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Caravan; Mood Indigo; Still in Love; Chelsea Bridge / A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; I'm Just a Lucky So-and- So; It's Kind of Lonesome Tonight; Day Dream; I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues; All Roads Lead Back to You; U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group); Lush Life; Take the "A" Train.

Frank Sinatra, Branford Marsalis & Anaïs Reno

by Joe Dimino
September 12, 2021

Representing the youth movement in jazz in 2021 we kick off the 716th Episode of Neon Jazz with vocalist Anaïs Reno's “Daydream." She is followed by her hero Frank Sinatra and good line-up of jazz. It picks up with guitarist Dan Wilson, vocalist Bill Kwan and German Pianist Kilian Kemmer. We also hear the pipes of ...

Anaïs Reno: Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen

by Richard J Salvucci
April 29, 2021

The first time someone told me that Billy Strayhorn was a teenager when he wrote “Lush Life," I didn't believe it. Not so much because of the harmonic gymnastics, which were daunting enough, but because of the lyrics. “Romance is mush stifling those who strive, I'll live out a lush life in some small dive." No, ...

Anaïs Reno: Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen

by Pierre Giroux
April 22, 2021

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were collaborators for several decades beginning in the late 1930s. They became so closely intertwined musically that it was frequently impossible to distinguish their work. Anaïs Reno a young and promising singer has chosen to use their compositions as the basis for her debut release Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno Sings Ellington ...

Anaïs Reno

Born: November 29, 2003

New York-Based Jazz Singer And Composer, Anaïs Has Been Artistically Very Active, Involved In The Performing Arts Since Age 8. After Winning The 2016 Forte International Competition’s Platinum Award At Carnegie Hall, She Won The Jazz Award In The American Traditions Vocal Competition, The Mabel Mercer Competition And The Julie Wilson Award. 

Studying Voice Since 2013 With Sarah Tolar As A Recipient Of The Recanati-Kaplan Scholarship Program At The 92nd Street Y As Well As With Her Father, A Former Opera Singer, Anaïs Graduated In The Spring Of 2021 From LaGuardia High School Studying Drama, And Now Attends SUNY Purchase, Studying Jazz Voice And Operatic Technique With Sherry Overholt As An Ella Fitzgerald Scholar.