Results for "Vocalist"

Barbara Rosene

Barbara Rosene is a passionate vocalist whose interpretations uncover the richness of jazz classics through the subtle, skilled delivery of one truly in love with the genre she sings. Vibrantly at home in a style reflective of 1920s and 1930s jazz artists, Rosene gives voice to songs in ways that are both gracefully provocative and warmly welcoming. In her established career she has shared stages with jazz icons, performing internationally with The Harry James Orchestra, sitting in with Les Paul at New York’s Iridium Jazz Club, with the Woody Allen Band, at The Carlyle Hotel, as well as directing her own New Yorkers, and guest performing with orchestras and in festivals across the world. Influenced by the Tin Pan Alley composers from the era she celebrates, and by singers such as Mildred Bailey and Ella Fitzgerald, she has been recognized by NPR, The New School, Backstage Magazine (Bistro Award, 2006), and is featured in Scott Yanow’s “Great Jazz Singers.” Rosene is personally committed to the significance of jazz music in American Popular Song and in America’s roots and spirit

Audrey Moira Shimkas

Born: July 23

The song is Audrey! Anyone who has ever watched Audrey perform responds to the openness and confidence she exudes as a vocal artist, to the rich warmth of her voice, the movement of her body, and the subtle emotional power of her authenticity. She has a tremendous amount of charisma. Audrey is a singer’s singer who takes risks. She surprises and thrills with notes that push a melody to new heights. Her unique style and choice of material is best described as eclectic, pop-jazz fusion. When Audrey interprets a song whether she paints a ballad story or kicks an up tempo variation; laments the blues or grooves a Bossa Nova; swings a standard or wrings out a soul oldie-the experience is always fresh and new. Long before Audrey thought about being a vocal artist, she recalls that at a young age she was mesmerized by June Christy in concert

Erin Shields

Born: February 21

Erin has recently performed at some of NY’s most famous jazz clubs and cabaret venues including The Iridium Jazz Club, Birdland, Joe’s Pub, Ra Cafe & Lounge, Don’t Tell Mama, The Laurie Beechman Theater and The Salmagundi Club. Her most recent performance was at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland where she performed her show, The Great American Songbook Retold, at The Lot Jazz Club. Erin has performed as headline act to an excited and sold-out crowd for the annual Forest Hills Jazz Festival and has acted as the artistic ambassador for the charitable organization, The March of Dimes

Fini Bearman

Fini Bearman is a London based singer, multi-instrumentalist & composer, who has a ‘rare sense of melody running through her eclectic compositions, full of catchy twists and turns’. Her music melds diverse influences from jazz, folk and contemporary music into an 'arresting and uniquely personal' sound. Sometimes dealing with settings of poetry and other times original lyrics, ‘her voice, effortlessly moves between a light precision and warm soulfulness is unmistakably her own’.  Fini released her latest album 'Burn the Boat' in October 2016 and it has already received much glowing reviews from peers and critics including ****'s from Jazzwise, allaboutjazz, the Guardian and the arts desk. '.

Imani Uzuri

Imani Uzuri grew up dreaming of travel, reading adventure novels and poetry under the pecan trees of her idyllic early years in rural North Carolina. Visions of other lands and other worlds entwined with the musical roots that formed the foundation of Uzuri’s intensely focused approach to evoking places and moments with her powerful yet subtle voice. The old Spirituals, the gospel music she heard in her small country church and from her extended family, in particular from her formidable grandmother, sunk in deep. “I feel like my granny’s sensibility shaped me. She had an off-key joyful voice, and every morning she would wake up and start the day singing,” Uzuri remembers fondly

Charenee Wade

First Runner-Up in the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition, Charenee Wade is a notable singer, composer, arranger and educator who received her degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Her accolades include Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Program where she performed her original music at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; being one of the talented four chosen for the Dianne Reeves Young Artist Workshop at Carnegie Hall; 1st Runner-Up in the Jazzmobile Vocal Competition; and being selected for the JAS Academy Summer Sessions, 2007-09, directed by Christian McBride. Charenee is currently a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music, City College, and with the Jazzmobile Workshop program

Nichelodeon

Born: January 30, 1975

A workshop devoted to artisan sound and vision performance, Nichelodeon was born from a nucleus of compositions written around 1997 by the singer and composer, Claudio Milano. His compositions have been presented in Europe and in countries outside Europe (Moscow -- The First Biennial Fair of Contemporary Art in 2005, The International Festival of Theatre Research in the Slovenian Republic in 2004. CRT Milano 2004) during theatre shows, dance exhibitions, short feature films, video installations, performance and expositions, in the form of a recital entitled "The room plays what I do not see". In September 2007, the first official formation of the project was created, with Francesco Zago electric guitarist, Maurizio Fasoli pianist, recipe readings from the book "The science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well" by Pellegrino Artusi, Riccardo di Paola at the synth, Claudio Milano voice, video contributions by Marc Vincent Kalinka and sculptures from the studio "letestedimary", exhibits in Milan (at the Spazio Tadini, Villa Litta, Spazio Sirin and various other clubs of this nature) all animated by a live cd-r "Cinemanemico", which has obtained more than a hundred positive articles in specialized magazines, newspapers, webzines and in radio talk shows all over the world

Morgan Joyce Williams

Born: August 6, 1993

My life story can pretty much be summed up in Luke 15:11-32. Long story short, I once was lost, and now Im found. My life and my music are devoted to God's glory, and the calling in Matthew 28:18. Music is a gift I believe God has placed in me for a reason. I hope to impact the world using it!

Harry Brown

Born: 1951

My songs are mostly jazzy love songs, but not exclusively. I write songs and sing them without the accompaniment of musical instruments. Hear the words, listen to the stories, 'bop' to the beat in all your glory! Instrumentation is vocally suggested - full orchestration? Imagine! - Harry Brown 2010

Queen Esther

Born: June 30

Solo Performer. Vocalist. Topliner. Writer. Musician. Songwriter. Playwright. Librettist. Actor. TED Speaker.

Described as “...the unknown queen of Americana…” (Feedback, Norway), “..a Black Lucinda Williams…” and a “...brutal, original, explosive singer…”  (Vanity Fair, Spain), Queen Esther’s creative output musically is the culmination of several critical Southern elements, not the least of which are years of recording and touring internationally as frontwoman for several projects with her mentor, harmolodic guitar icon James “Blood” Ulmer, including a stint in his seminal band Odyssey.  Raised in Atlanta, GA and embedded in Charleston, SC’s Lowcountry – a region with African traditions and Black folkways that span centuries and constantly inform her work –  Queen Esther uses her Southern roots as a touchstone to explore cultural mores in America, deconstructing well-worn historical narratives while creating a reclamation-driven soundscape.