Results for "Vocalist"

Jennifer Stanley

Born: December 15, 1976

Mark Quint

Born: 1975

This unique and new recording features 10 handpicked musicians playing with Mark Quint. Each song on this new release has it's own flavor and mood. Reminiscent of the style of Antonio Carlos Jobim, yet somehow quite unique to Mr. Quint's own taste and sophistication. This album settles easily into the likes of Diana Krall, Norah Jones or Chet Baker. Mark has a classic vocal style, his temper is cool and jet setting, and his lyrics flow from soft to full bravado seamlessly on all of these original songs. Mark Quint began composing at the age of 11. It was in his nature to see and feel music in everything he did

Mary Foster Conklin

Born: December 29

Praised as “a potent advocate for women in jazz,” NYC-based Mary Foster Conklin just celebrated her tenth year hosting her weekly radio show “A Broad Spectrum – the Ladies of Jazz,” which highlights women composers and lyricists on WFDU 89.1 FM based at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey, and streams on their HD2 Channel at http://www.wfdu.fm.  

In light of that milestone, Mary was recently awarded a Bistro Award for Consumate Jazz Vocalist and Archivist.

She has taught several workshops on radio submission for singers and has been a participant on the Jukebox Jury panel at the JALC Jazz Congress.  As a vocalist, she is a master storyteller with an affinity for uncovering hidden gems deserving attention. Her fifth and most recent recording, These Precious Days (MockTurtle Music) a heartfelt collection of popular and jazz tunes penned primarily by women, was praised as “a treasure” by JAZZLIVES and “A winning new collection of songs… by a vocalist equally effective on suspects usual and otherwise,” JAZZTIMES.  

Yoon Sun Choi

Born: November 13

Vivian Lee

Born: August 5, 1954

I am a jazz vocalist and recording artist I specialize in the standards - Gershwin, Ellington, Berlin, James, Jobim, and the like. My main venues have been the cabaret/supper clubs and nightclubs such as Cascades and, Lou's on Pier 47 in San Francisco. I have also performed at the Stockmarket Lounge and Grill and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. I have been a vocalist in the Sacramento area for the last nine years and am making the rounds as guest vocalist with some of the Sacramento and Bay area's finest musicians. I have also had the great fortune to play with legendary drummer Ed Thigpen. In 1999 I formed the Vivian Lee Quintet and have been drawing in audiences to experience our magic from Lake Tahoe to the Bay area

Tony Adamo

Born: June 17, 1965

Reviewed by Kirpal Gordon (reprinted from Jazz Times), The killin’ist thing about Tony Adamo & the New York Crew is that everybody in the band, especially the dope rhyme sayer, has got big ears all the way back to New Orleans and ancient-forward into the ever-evolving Multi-New Thing. It’s big ears working together that’s keeping this CD in Jazzweek's Chart Top 200 List since its release, a totally unheard of phenomenon for jazz-spoken word collaborations. Although singing the talents and wonders of the giants who make this music immortal is nothing new, Adamo and the New York Crew pour out on these eleven tracks joyous lagniappes of praise, the song-cup running over with each additional solo. It’s one thing to express an artful appreciation of the Jazz Messengers, for example, in a song, but it’s a whole other monster of tribute when the band rocks Blakey’s sound so righteously.

Tine Bruhn

Born: May 21, 1978

Tine Bruhn moved to New York City in 2001 after having graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston. She quickly became part of New York’s jazz scene performing at some of the city’s best music venues including Smalls and Bar Next Door. She consistently plays with some of the top musicians in NYC and she has become a regular on the program at the well- known jazz club Zinc Bar. Ms. Bruhn performs weekly in duo setting with pianist Johnny O’Neal (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Milt Jackson) at Robert on Columbus Circle. The Danish-born singer grew up in Flensburg, Germany where she started her career at an early age. At 15 she founded the the vocal group "Kvart I Fire" which gained high recognition in the region, especially after the release of their CD "Go 4 it"

Sue Oatts Tucker

Born: April 11, 1955

I come from a family of known jazz musicians. "My father, Jack Oatts, was one of the first jazz educators in Iowa. Music was always around... mostly jazz." My brothers, Jim and Dick Oatts, are also internationally known and respected jazz artists. Before I took up singing, I was blowin' my tenor sax in jazz band and playing' a duet with Clark Terry at a jazz festival on my clarinet. "I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound." After attending college, I began a studio career producing and singing jingles and industrials with a voice-over thrown in on occasion

Susan Krebs

Born: July 1

Susan Krebs, Jazz Gardener at Work

Over three decades, Los Angeles vocalist and songwriter Susan Krebs has created a captivating body of work, combining a free-ranging imagination with a supple sense of swing. Dubbed the Jazz Gardener, both for her lovingly tended musical bouquets and the inspiration she draws from cultivating her small plot of land, Krebs has sown a brilliant array of projects and recordings with a regular cast of L.A. jazz luminaries.

A restlessly creative artist, she's covered a lot of sonic territory over the years, and her latest album, 2025's Little Did I Dream, marks a return to her straight-ahead roots. Eschewing the kind of crafty conceptual frameworks that have defined most of her previous albums, she simply revels in interpreting a set of songs that provided pleasure and succor during the pandemic's chaotic hangover years.

Stephanie Crawford

Born: August 30, 1942

Jazz Vocalist. Winner of 1994 Django D'Or Award