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Clairdee
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It might seem strange to describe a singer as hip as Clairdee as a throwback, but she’s an
artist who embodies creative values that have largely gone out of style. With her lustrous
voice and soulful delivery, she hearkens back to a time when jazz, pop, and rhythm and
blues often blended seamlessly together. Combining scene-stealing charisma with
heartfelt humility and a sincere belief in the transformative power of music, Clairdee has
honed a repertoire of standards set to state of the art arrangements that are equally smart
and entertaining.
"I am a jazz inspired storyteller," Clairdee says
A Look Back at Notable Recordings Composed by Women in 2020
by Mary Foster Conklin
Happy New Year! The broadcast begins 2021 with a look back at some of the notable 2020 releases made despite the disruption of the pandemic and all of its difficulties. Thanks for listening and please continue your support of the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown.Playlist Anne Sajdera ...
A Love Letter To Lena
Label: Declare Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Old Devil Moon; Home (spoken interlude); I Got A Name; Maybe; Hollywood (spoken interlude);
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; Seminar with Drinks (spoken interlude); I Want to Be
Happy; Soul Mates (spoken interlude); Something To Live For; I'm Free (spoken interlude); Believe in
Yourself; The Movement (spoken interlude); Stand Up.
Clairdee: A Love Letter To Lena
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Revered decades after her passing, Lena Horne has remained an icon in the realms of music, stage & screen, and civil rights activism. With A Love Letter to Lena, San Francisco-based vocalist Clairdee assumes the task of saluting Horne by way of selections from Billy Strayhorn and other great American composers. And the inclusion of narration ...
Clairdee: A Love Letter To Lena
by Dan Bilawsky
A fixture on the Bay Area jazz scene, Clairdee has established herself as a self-assured singer and an artist who's never content in repeating an idea. Her first three albums move from the studio to the holidays to the stage, demonstrating a high level of comfort in disparate settings and seasons. This fourth project—a tribute to ...
In Touch Entertainment Launches West Coast Jazz Series—New York's Vocal Mania Program Extends To Los Angeles
This month, In Touch Entertainment is launching a monthly vocal-centric jazz program in Los Angeles, a sister to the hugely successful Vocal Mania series started in New York this spring. The first West Coast event, co-hosted by acclaimed vocalists Denise Donatelli and Paulette McWilliams will take place on June 29 and feature jazz singer Kenny Washington. ...
Tribute to Prentice “Pete” Douglas at Douglas Beach House
by Bill Leikam
Tribute to Prentice “Pete" Douglas Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, CA October 4-5, 2014 In some ways, for all of us who time and again came to the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay to listen to some of the finest jazz anywhere, the passing of Prentice “Pete" ...
Take Five With Todd Gordon
by Todd Gordon
Meet Todd Gordon:In just a few years, Todd Gordon has established himself as “one of Britain's most popular singers and entertainers" (Scottish Television). An avid Beatles fan until the age of 11, his musical horizons broadened when he heard Frank Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers! album. From that moment, he collected almost every recording ...
2012 Lakeshore Jazz Series at Tempe Center for the Arts
Tempe Center for the Arts 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway Tempe, AZ 85281 Box Office: 480-350-2822 2012 Concert Series Gretchen Parlato Friday, January 27, 2012 | 7:30 P.M. An alumni of the Thelonious Monk Institute, Parlato has been turning heads ever since she won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Institute International ...
Clairdee: Half Moon Bay, CA, May 8, 2011
by Bill Leikam
ClairdeeDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaMay 8, 2011 On Mother's Day, May 8, 2011, the historic Douglas Beach House (aka Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society) in Half Moon Bay, California was buzzing about Clairdee's impending performance. When the full house had settled in, her stellar band--musical director/pianist Ken French, world ...
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