Results for "Vocalist"

Jennifer Bryce

Born: July 27

Recording artist, Jennifer Bryce "At Last") serves up a cocktail of classic jazz, originals and vintage and contemporary pop & soul a la Tuck and Patti with a shot of Aretha, Annie Lennox and John Mayer stirred in. While her tone and phrasing has been compared to Sarah Vaughn, legendary gospel singer, Dr. Horace Boyer called her delivery “testifyin” and avant garde singer Meredith Monk says “Jennifer has an unusual musical gift.” Jennifer has toured domestically and in Europe and is the recipient of a Whammie Award for her vocal stylings. Jennifer Bryce was moved to sing at age 7 when she first heard a recording of Ella Fitzgerald

Tom Ray

Born: August 6, 1970

Tom Ray is a crooner/light jazz singer who also hosts and DJs elegant wedding receptions. Tom Ray Entertainment delivers the perfect blend of live entertainment and party music for your event, all by a professional singer, host, and master of cermonies.

Russell Allen Taylor

Born: February 1, 1964

Southern Standard Time is the inaugural CD recording by Rusty and Friends jazz band, a quartet with Tom Chadwick on keyboards (he also composes some really groovy arrangements of popular songs in the jazz style); Mark Parker on drums; Jeff Smith on bass; and Rusty Taylor who provides the vocals. We have known each other for many years, primarily through supporting our local jazz club, the Columbus Jazz Society: Columbus... Georgia, that is. (Check out their website listed in our links section.) About a year ago, Rusty approached Tom Chadwick with a request to record some vocal jazz standards

Elaine Dame

Born: September 21, 1962

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"Dame has risen to the top ranks of Chicago jazz singers, with a musicality that allows her to improvise things most singers shouldn't even try. She possesses everything one could want in a true jazz vocalist: centered intonation, an enviable command of rhythm, and a translucent but powerful instrument.”~ Neil Tesser, Grammy award-winning critic and Author, The Playboy Guide to Jazz

Elaine Dame, jazz vocalist and recording artist, is a "Vocal dynamo...[and] continues to be a gem in the city's vocal jazz scene" according to Time Out Chicago. Since 1997, Dame has headlined venerable venues in Chicago, the Midwest and the nation, collaborating with some of the finest jazz instrumentalists. She has enjoyed residencies at such notable music rooms as the Rainbow Room, Michael Feinstein's 54 Below and the Metropolitan Room in New York City - and in Chicago, Elaine headlined the 2015 Chicago Jazz Festival and appears regularly at Winter's Jazz Club and The Jazz Showcase, to name but a few.

Nadia Washington

Born: September 28, 1988

It is rare that you find gifted individuals in the world of music whose musicianship and artistry are reminiscent of the many legends and icons that have come before. Often compared to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn, her style incorporates a fusion of different musical avenues. Her smooth, velvet-cloaked vocals draw in an audience with the slightest effort, leaving many feeling quite misty in a state of emotional bliss. Born and raised in Dallas, TX, Nadia began showing sighs of an entertainer at the age of 2. As far back as she could remember, she was surrounded buy some of the premiere musicians of the Dallas Metro-plex

Kathrine Becker

Born: April 15, 1982

Striking a diplomatic balance of irreverent cheek and harrowing heartache, Becker sings with a forthright and vibrant voice, yet with a frailty that is disarming. Influenced by vocal jazz, handbells, early Weezer and later Radiohead, her piano arrangements sound more like peppy art song than piano rock, and her lyrical tell-it-like-it-is style leaves little room for guessing. She is fluid onstage, natural in the limelight, and always entertaining.

Mel Blanc

Born: May 30, 1908

Having earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during the "Golden Age of American animation" (and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions) as the voice of such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Speedy Gonzales and hundreds of others. Blanc was interested in music at an early age and became proficient on bass, violin, and sousaphone

Carmen Souza

Born: May 20, 1981

Carmen Souza was born in Lisbon (81) within a Christian family of Cape Verdeans. She grew up in a mixed language environment of Creole, the Cape Verde dialect her parents spoke at home, and Portuguese, always surrounded by the Cape Verdean way of life. In her teens she sang professionally in a Lusophone Gospel Choir. Being a strongly spiritual person, Carmen always saw music as her mission and felt privileged to have the opportunity to express herself through it, working hard every day to deserve that opportunity. Musicians like Luis Morais, Theo Pas'cal, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarret, Diana Krall, etc, are definitely those that truly inspire her evolution and search for a unique personal style. Theo Pas'cal, her producer and mentor and one of the best bass players in Portugal, discovered her talent and introduced Carmen to Jazz, Fusion and other contemporary sounds that markedly influenced her musical development. In 2003, Carmen began working with Theo on the compositions that would be included on her début album Ess ê nha Cabo Verde

Valerie Belinga

Valerie Belinga is a jazz vocalist originally hailing from Cameroon, who is beginning to make a positive impression on the international music scene. Very early on Valerie discovered Caribbean, Peruvian Indian, and South African music, and was swayed by singer Myriam Makeba, alongside her father who was choir master of a Gregorian chorus. As a teenager she listened to the soundtrack of Billie Holiday's life " Lady Sings the Blues" and gradually entered the world of great jazz singers such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzerald, Shirley Horn, Mahalia Jackson and many more. After relocating to Strasbourg, France, and taking up residency, she started attending jazz clubs

Phoebe Legere

PHOEBE LEGERE is a dynamic performer on piano, accordion, cello, Native American flute, and synthesizer, with a four and half octave vocal range. Legere was still a teenager when she became the resident composer for the Wooster Group, which included Spaulding Grey and Willem Defoe. She was signed to Epic Records, had her Carnegie Hall debut as a composer and studied jazz with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Legere graduated from Vassar College, studied composition at the Juilliard School, studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and film scoring, orchestration and jazz arranging at the NYU Graduate School of Music Composition