Results for "Karla Harris"

Professor Aucoin & the Jazz Scientists: Mystified

by Jack Bowers
February 21, 2021

There is a heap of soul, blues, rock, funk and heart on Professor Tim Aucoin's album, Mystified. On the other hand, the jazz content is in rather short supply. The Jazz Scientists are good at what they do, but what they do is more akin to a nightclub act than a jazz performance, at times reminiscent ...

Karla Harris

Jazz vocalist Karla Harris has made a career within the art form she loves for more than four decades, engaging audiences from Portland to Provence. Her performance credits include events such as the Sarasota Jazz Festival, Portland Jazz Festival, Oregon Coast Jazz Party, Greenville Jazz Festival, Nantucket Arts Festival, Siletz Bay Music Festival, Atlanta Jazz Party, Atlanta Jazz Festival, and a TED Talk. She has performed for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Arts Across America live performance series, and in 2022 was awarded a distinguished Jazz Road grant through the South Arts foundation.  In addition to performing, writing and recording, Karla is an artist-in-residence with the Jazz Studies department at Kennesaw State University, teaching  Applied Vocal Jazz to aspiring singers passionate about this uniquely American art form. She is a recipient of Atlanta Magazine's 2024 Women Making a Mark award in recognition of her "Jazz Discovery" educational and community outreach programs, and in 2025 was one of 29 individuals across North America named a "Jazz Hero" by the Jazz Journalists Association. Karla also is honored to be the subject of a short-form documentary by filmmaker Elisee Junior St. Preux, produced by South Fulton Arts in Atlanta.

Certain Elements

By Karla Harris

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Set Sophia Free The Way He Makes Me Feel Certain Elements Folds When Michael Interlude Do I Still Figure in Your Life Give This All To Me Cherish Lean On Me Flow Certain Elements (ATL)

Karla Harris Sings the Dave and Iola Brubeck Songbook

By Karla Harris

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Take Five The Duke Easy As You Go Far More Blue In You Own Sweet Way There'll Be No Tomorrow My One Bad Habit Summer Song Strange Meadowlark Weep No More Trav'lin Blues

Honoring the Brubeck jazz legacy in her own sweet way

March 8, 2015

Singer Karla Harris celebrated the teamwork of Dave and Iola Brubeck on Friday, March 6 at the 35th annual Sarasota Jazz Festival. Few going into the concert may have been aware of the extent of Iola Brubeck's impact on her pianist husband's career, but they left with a much deeper understanding, thanks to Atlanta-based Harris' brief ...