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Robyn Hayle

Arms Full Of Roses The first thing that hits you is the voice. Devoid of affectation or theatrics, it’s a delightful instrument, one wielded with real subtlety. Technically a dramatic mezzo, it moves with graceful ease from the slightly husky sensuality of “Could This Be Love” and “Crazy Melody” to the bluesy boisterousness of “Tomatoes,” the sweet romanticism of “Look of Love” and “Arms Full of Roses,” and the gently aching melancholy of ”Fools” and “Falling Out of Love.” Its purity of tone matched by impeccable phrasing, this is a voice to be reckoned with. Then there are the songs

Kristine Mills

Born: May 4

I am very proud to announce that my cd, bossanovafied is on the first round list for nomination consideration for the 52nd Grammy's. Kristine Mills is the winner of the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards

Audrey Silver

Born: May 12, 1964

With a growing catalog of outstanding recordings and a warm, swinging performing style, Audrey Silver is one of the most elegantly creative singers in jazz today. Known for what Hot House Jazz has called “extraordinary artistry” and “a velvet-laden timbre with impeccable phrasing,” Audrey has more recently become known for her compelling takes on well-known pop tunes and her own poignant originals. 

Her latest recording project and her fourth album, Let Me Know Your Heart, was released in early September 2019.  The album features a remarkable group of musicians including Bruce Barth on piano, trumpeter Marcus Printup, upright bassist Paul Beaudry, drummer Anthony Pinciotti, Tom Beckham on vibes and guitarist Gary Ciprut. The album is centered artistically and emotionally on Audrey’s six newly-penned original songs (out of fourteen total tracks). 

Maria Barlett

Born: November 29, 1958

Maria Barlett is a Jazz singer who follows in the tradition of the greatest American vocalists of the past century. She is a graduate of the prestigious Frost Conservatory of Music at the University of Miami, Coral Gables Florida, a bastion of world class Jazz education. Maria has continued her musical growth under the tutelage of legendary jazzman Hal Shaefer, with whom she developed her program “Standard Fare” to present the best of the American Songbook to audience both foreign and domestic. Together, they have collaborated to produce a collection of splendid arrangements, recorded digitally, that enable Maria to utilize various media to share Hal’s matchless piano artistry with her audiences around the world, and here as part of her elegant program “Standard Fare.”

Margeaux Lampley

An exceptional jazz and gospel artist, Margeaux Lampley has lived a number of lives. After obtaining a law degree from Columbia Law School and working for a renowned law firm in New York and then Paris, she left it all to to live the artist’s life in Paris, studying jazz and in no time establishing herself as a featured artist and backup vocalist for various French groups. As part of the duo Sodex, she released two successful singles, including “Move Me”, featured on the soundtrack of French film “De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté” and compilations throughout various parts of the world

Ken Greves

Born: April 15

Ken Greves is a passionate interpreter of the Great American Songbook and a specialist in the music of Harold Arlen. “Arlen’s music resonates profoundly with my musical sensibilities,” says Ken. “Arlen considered himself a jazz composer and wanted to be a vocalist himself. He was unique in that he was unafraid to break out of the standard 32-bar form.” Another important influence on Ken was the voice of Judy Garland. “My fascination with Garland was her uncanny ability to musically shape a song while acting and telling a story. She demonstrated that a song has a beginning, middle and end.” Ken grew up in Nassau County, on the south shore of Long Island, NY

Don Shelden

Don Shelden, the recording artist known for bringing back the big band sound of the 1940’s with his albums “Imagination,” and “Any Swing Goes,” is the author of the book, “That’s What God Looks Like To Me.”

Shelden is the protégé of three-time Grammy Award winning composer Marion Evans, who served as arranger and conductor on his first two albums. For his third CD, Shelden used seven-time Emmy Award Winner Mike Renzi as his arranger and piano player. Shelden presents the listener with a polished vocal style, with phrasing and tonality that is often compared to that of a young Frank Sinatra

Rachel Efron

Born: March 23, 1979

To listen to a Rachel Efron song is to be led across an inner landscape at once beautiful, dangerous, serene, and startling. Rachel offers that rare combination of sophisticated musicianship and commanding lyricism. There is a delicacy and astuteness to her perspective on the world, and she possesses that most precious artistic quality of being able to honestly share herself with her listeners. She is versed in classical, jazz, folk, and pop music, and travels unabashedly between the soulful and sweet, saucy and swinging, by way of her alternately sincere and comically cynical portraits of life and love

Mavis SWAN Poole

Born: October 6, 1978

Crowned “Little Ellla" by the great Curtis Fuller, and guilty of inspiring people to sing because of God-given creativity, Singer/Songwriter/Composer Mavis ‘SWAN’ Poole is stirring up the music scene as we know it. She possesses an unrivaled brilliance of shattering barriers with her rich and smoky sound, undauntedly amalgamating jazz, R&B, soul, funk and hip hop. Swan is a sassy, soulful, fiery SongBird (which is the literal translation of MAVIS) whose music promises to stand the test of time. “Bull City’s” finest was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, where she attended the very prestigious North Carolina Central University

Cecilia Herrera

At 18 years old Cecilia moved to Los Angeles to follow one of the choreography gurus of that era: Alex Magno. Through the perfection and advice of Mr. Magno, Cecilia completed her early studies in the art of dance. Later in life, Cecila crossed paths with the lyrical singer and teacher Vivian Hernandez, whom has had an important role in her life. After intense months of studying and reciting, she was chosen to perform important roles in various theatre productions. This time, she had the opportunity to work beside names of a certain calibre such as Massimo Ranieri and Patroni Griffi. By the age of 20, Cecilia had accumulated a noted quantity of professional experience