Results for "Vocalist"

Sendy Brown

Born: May 29

Sanni Orasmaa

Born in Helsinki, Finland, Sanni Orasmaa has resided in NYC since 2000. A student of Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton and Mark Murphy, Sanni has performed in numerous club dates and festivals in Europe, Russia, China and the United States. She has a Master's degree in Jazz Vocals and is currently teaching in the jazz division of the Brooklyn Conservatory. Please refer at the website for further information and performance schedule.

Salena Jones

Born: January 29, 1944

SALENA JONES (b. Joan Shaw) A direct descendant of Crazy Horse, the Indian Sioux warrior, Joan Shaw was born in Newport News, Virginia, and began singing in church and school before making her debut on life's bigger stages. As a very young teenager, Joan Shaw`s career began at Manhattan's legendary Harlem Apollo, when she won the amateur night singing "September Song". Joan grew up in New York in the company of musicians who would become the legends: Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Bud Powell, Wes Montgomery, Chico Hamilton and Stan Getz - she met all these people, jamming with some of them, and began making demonstration records for artists like Peggy Lee, Brenda Lee and Lena Horne, before getting her own recording contract. Based in New York, with her own "Blues Extra Orchestra", Salena toured widely across the US with "King" Curtis in her band (whom she named), also working with Johnnie Ray, Laverne Baker, Arthur Prysock, and Frankie Lyman. This rhythm`n`blues period was the forerunner to rock`n`roll and looking back, one sees how Joan Shaw is now revered by afficionados of those times. Joan then worked regularly at the famous venues of the Village Vanguard, Minton`s Playhouse and Wells Supper Club

Sandra Cartolari

Born: November 27, 1965

Sandra Cartolari Singer/Composer I was born in Buelach (Switzerland) in 1965, since then I've been singing (professionally since 1988) and lately also composing. In 1990 I enrolled at C.P.M. in Siena to study with Tiziana Ghiglioni and met pianist Giovanni Ceccarelli. We've been playing together ever since. Over the next few years I have studied with: Tiziana Ghiglioni, Sheila Jordan, Cynthia Utterbach, Shawnn Monteiro, Rachel Gould, Nat Adderley, Attilio Zanchi, Benny Golson, Lee Brown. In 1997/98 I attended the "Bernstein school of musical theater" directed by Shawna Farrell. I have sung in various line-ups at many festivals: 1990/2004 "Sandra Cartolari/Giovanni Ceccarelli duo" 2001Jazz aus Italien;Jazz und Weltmusik im Englischen Garten; Salon de la chanson im Bellevue; Teehaus in Englischen garten (Berlin), 1994/95 "The Swing Alligator" (with Franco Valussi, Glauco Venier, Slatko Kaucic and Andrea Massaria) 1994/96 "Kassandra Band" (with Stefano Calzolari, Stefano Cappa, Adriano Molinari) - first prize at the first " Festival Canoro Citt

Rosana Eckert

Born: August 28, 1974

With an international reputation in several facets of the world of media and entertainment, Rosana Eckert wears many hats as a versatile live and studio vocalist, a creative songwriter and arranger, a dynamic voiceover actor, and a master teacher of jazz and vocal technique. She has performed and recorded with many jazz luminaries, including Christian McBride, Lyle Mays, Bobby McFerrin, George Duke, Bill Mays, Jon Faddis, Marvin Stamm, and the New York Voices. Recently she was one of the three vocalists on "Eberhard," the Grammy Award-winning mini-symphony by legendary jazz pianist Lyle Mays, as well as a producer on the 2023 Grammy-nominated recording of “How Deep Is Your Love” by vocal group Kings Return. Performing regularly with her own bands and projects, Rosana's critically acclaimed album Sailing Home was praised as "bright and innovative" (AllAboutJazz) and “alluring” (Jazz Weekly). In 2021, her Brazilian jazz fusion band, Brasuka, released their highly acclaimed debut album of original songs titled A Vida Com Paixão. Lauded as “addictively joyful” (Exclusive Magazine) and "positively infectious" (The Big Takeaway), the album received 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine and All About Jazz.com and made it on several "Best of 2021" music lists.  Rosana has also been featured with the Mike Steinel Quintet on the album Song and Dance and with the multi-media jazz novel/cd/audiobook project Saving Charlie Parker. 

Richard Kalman

Born: August 18, 1946

I led the six-voiced vocal jazz harmony ensemble Con Alma (with soul) that performed in the San Francisco Bay Area until 2014. From 2008 to the present, I have been co-directing the Albany Jazz Big Band,  I have a BA in Jazz Studies from CSU Sonoma and have studied vocals with jazz recording artists Madeline Eastman, Mark Murphy, Faye Carol, Kitty Margolis, Sheila Jordan, and jazz piano with Mark Levine. I am a former member of the Oakland Jazz Choir and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir.

Richard Negri

Born: September 23, 1967

I am what many would dub a "jazz poet." My vocal is mainly spoken poetics that I wrote. The music is straight-ahead (original material co-written with Howard Mall). Meditations on a Downbeat is my second record on the LightMoose Label, it is available at cdbaby.com/negri and at my site. I generally list all of my performance dates, post random pictures, and just touch base with people interested in my career at my web site.

Peter Lipa

Born: May 30, 1943

I am 35 years in busines, leading my band almost 15 years. Recorded 20 CD's under my own name. My favorite music is combination between jazz & blues.

Peg Carrothers

My musical background began forming as a young child, learning songs from the family for every season and occasion, and harmonizing out the window with my mother whenever a rainstorm was brewing. It wasn’t uncommon to find me outside on a windy day making up songs and singing them up high into the trees.

I was lucky to have a dedicated school music program in my formative years, which allowed me to explore my talents further with leading roles in choir and musical programs. My love for song led me to later pursue a music degree at St Catherine’s College and finish up at the University of Minnesota, studying in the classical opera tradition before vocal jazz was a developed curriculum.

Paula West

PAULA WEST was fueled by a determination to find the best music and communicate it in her own way. Born into a Marine Corps family in San Diego, California, she was initially exposed to classical music. "My parents didn't have a lot of jazz records," remembers Paula "My father linked to listen to classical music." Paula began listening to jazz singers such as Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn while in college. After college, Paula moved to San Francisco, unsure of what she wanted to do with her life. Buying old records from thrift shops, she studied them and then began singing classes