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Sheila Jordan

Born: November 18, 1928

Sheila Jeanette Dawson, 18 November 1928, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Raised in poverty in Pennsylvania’s coal-mining country, Jordan began singing as a child and by the time she was in her early teens was working semi-professionally in Detroit clubs. Her first great influence was Charlie Parker and, indeed, most of her influences have been instrumentalists rather than singers. Working chiefly with black musicians, she met with disapproval from the white community but persisted with her career. She was a member of a vocal trio, Skeeter, Mitch And Jean (she was Jean), who sang versions of Parker’s solos in a manner akin to that of the later Lambert, Hendricks And Ross

Live At Mezzrow

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Bird Alone; The Touch Of Your Lips; What Is This Thing Called Love; The Bird & Confirmation; Look For The Silver Lining; Falling In Love With Love; Baltimore Oriole; Blue In Green; Autumn In New York; Lucky To Be Me

It's My Turn to Color Now

By Roberta Brenza

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: It’s My Turn to Color Now; Song for My Father; They Had to Part; Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head; Bebop Lives (Boplicity); Art Deco; Take Five; Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves); Watch What Happens; Summer; Estate; Bye Bye Blackbird; Ballad of the Paper Moon / It’s Only a Paper Moon.

September 2022: Jazz Child

by C. Michael Bailey
September 26, 2022

Sheila Jordan Live At Mezzrow's Cellar Music 2022 Nonagenarian Sheila Jordan is a jazz singer enjoying an incandescent twilight. In late 2021, Jordan appeared on Roseanna Vitro's Sing A Song of Bird (Skyline Records, 2021) singing a song contra-composed in her honor from Charlie Parker's “Cheryl," -"Sheila, Jazz Child." Jordan, ...

New Releases: Roberta Brenza With Sheila Jordan, Marína Ósk, Ana Nelson, Charu Suri & More Women Driven Jazz

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 19, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from vocalists Roberta Brenza featuring Sheila Jordan, Marína Ósk, saxophonist/clarinetist Ana Nelson, and pianist Charu Suri with birthday shoutouts to Lorraine Feather, Claire Martin, Paul Jost, Greta Matassa and Alyssa Allgood, among others. Remembering Lou Caputo in the first hour. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by ...

Sheila Jordan, Jazz Legend, At Jimmy's In Portsmouth, September 11, 2022

August 18, 2022

On Sunday, September 11, at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club in jny: Portsmouth, New Hampshire the Seacoast Jazz Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering jazz music and jazz education, will host a special evening event and performance to honor legendary jazz singer, Sheila Jordan. Jordan’s career began in the 1950s. Today she still performs all ...

Cheryl Richards: Another Spring, Another Song

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 9, 2022

It can be hard to find new things to say in old songs, but after many years of singing the standards, some singers are still able to discover the secret of a song. Cheryl Richards is a shining example of a singer who has been able to prove the relevance of the standards for a modern ...

Emmet Cohen has one foot in the tradition, and another in the future

by Leo Sidran
August 3, 2022

Within about a week of home quarantine in March 2020, pianist Emmet Cohen started live-streaming shows every Monday night from his apartment in Harlem.At first it was just Cohen and his bandmates, drummer Kyle Poole and bassist Russell Hall, set up in Cohen's living room. Eventually they started inviting guests, and Emmet's Place became ...

New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations For Dorothy Fields, Phoebe Snow & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 25, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from pannist Joy Lapps, a Carla Bley tribute by Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison & Ted Nash, the WJ3 All Stars, saxophonist Jean Fineberg, vocalist Sylvia Brooks plus a single from pianist Lauren Lee, with birthday shoutouts to Mary Osborne, lyricist Dorothy Fields, Phoebe Snow, Gayelynn McKinney, Akua Dixon, Lauren Sevian and ...

Alan Broadbent Trio: Like Minds

by Jack Bowers
July 21, 2022

Alan Broadbent, a superb New Zealand-born pianist who has made his home in America for more than fifty years, has mapped out another impressive trio album, Like Minds, his twenty-seventh as leader or co-leader and third for Savant Records. The term “pianist" is used here because that is Broadbent's most conspicuous role on this recording. He ...