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Shawnn Monteiro

Exciting, captivating and completely distinctive” is how most jazz cognoscenti describe Shawnn's pulsating lyric style. Whether in the intimacy of a club date or the glitter of a Las Vegas showroom, Shawnn has delighted audiences from USA to Europe with her highly popular jazz repertoire laced with blues-oriented improvisations. Evident in Shawnn's liveliness of lyrical phrasing and intermittent scat variations is the influences of Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan, from whom she draws that inner core of creative energy. But good genes help, too. Shawnn's father was the late renowned bassist Jimmy Woode, veteran of the Duke Ellington band

Remembering Pianist Beegie Adair: 1937-2022

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 14, 2022

The broadcast includes new releases from pianists Sharp Radway, Addison Frei, vocalists Giacomo Gates, Shawnn Monteiro and Wild Blue Herons, with birthday shoutouts to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Bettye LaVette, Ed Reed, Melody Gardot, Jen Allen plus a special remembrance for pianist Beegie Adair, a jazz master in the country capital of Nashville for over sixty years ...

Buddy Rich, Joe Zawinul and Shawnn Monteiro

by Joe Dimino
January 30, 2022

Our 736th show starts with stellar vocalist Shawnn Monteiro and music off her 2021 release You Are There. We also hear what's new from Nick Finzer, Dino Govoni and Peter McEachern. Sadly we say goodbye to the powerful St. Louis-native, NYC jazz force Montez Coleman. Enjoy the jazz, my friends. Playlist Shawnn Monteiro “Never ...

You Are There

By Shawnn Monteiro

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2021
Track listing: Dearly Beloved; Inside A Silent Tear; Let's Eat Home; You Are There; How Deep Is The Ocean; You'll See; The Shadow Of Your Smile; Autumn Leaves; Alone At Last; Never Let Me Go; I Hear Music/How High The Moon; My Old Friend

Shawnn Monteiro "To Carmen With Love" Tribute With Mike Renzi at Chan's Fine Oriental Dining on

February 28, 2015

Shawnn Monteiro Italian Tour Reunion featuring recent Grammy winner Mike Renzi (piano), Dave Zinno (bass), Steve Langone (drums) Saturday, February 28, 8pm $15 Chan's Fine Oriental Dining 267 Main St. Woonsocket, RI 02895 401-765-1900 A Tribute to Jazz, A Tribute to a Talent, and a Tribute to One Artist’s Effort ...

To Carmen with Love

By Shawnn Monteiro

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2012
Track listing: Old Devil Moon; Yesterdays; I Concentrate On You; Old Black Magic; You're Looking At Me; Mean To Me; Come In From The Rain; Miss Brown (To You); Speak Low; Nice Work If You Can Get It; I Have The Feeling I've Been Here Before; Nature Boy.

Shawnn Monteiro: To Carmen with Love

by Edward Blanco
June 23, 2012

Tributes to legendary jazz greats of the past dot the landscape of today's music, but few can actually boast a direct connection to the artist of homage. Singer Shawnn Monteiro--long influenced by the beautiful voice of pianist and vocalist Carmen McRae--is an exception. Her father and godfather, bassist Jimmy Woode and trumpeter Clark Terry, respectively, both ...