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Michelle Pollace

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Whether performing her own compositions or her arrangements of standards, Bay Area native Michelle Pollace [poh-LAH-chi] honors the roots of jazz, Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban music while adding a new voice. Her performance highlights creative arrangements of jazz melodies set to alluring Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, as well as original compositions from Michelle’s critically acclaimed CD “New Beginning.” Michelle’s love of melody and affinity for well-structured compositions creates a classic sound, of which critic Mark Tucker of Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange writes, “I’m highly reminded of Ahmad Jamal’s ..

Album

New Beginning

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Somewhere Over The Rainbow; Hot House Dandelion; New Beginning; Forro; Ondas do Mar; Be Right Back; La Comparasa; First Flight; Bright Eyes; That Was Then.

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Article: Album Review

Michelle Pollace: New Beginning

Read "New Beginning" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Pianist and composer Michelle Pollace from the San Francisco Bay Area has been a long-time exponent of the Latin jazz genre going back to her days as co-leader of the Zarate Pollace Project where, along with Bay Area songwriter and guitarist Abel Zarate, the group performed a blend of fusion, jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles of ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Michelle Pollace

Read "Take Five With Michelle Pollace" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Michelle Pollace:Michelle Pollace is a composer and performing musician of Latin jazz, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Michelle's arrangements of jazz, Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban standards are original, and her own compositions honor the roots of the music while adding a new voice. Her band's performances at the 2010 and 2011 San ...


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