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Wendy Pedersen

Wendy Pedersen is one of South Florida’s favorite performers. Her high-energy vocal delivery, with deep, convincing emotion has been impacting audiences for many years. Wendy got her Master's degree in Jazz Performance from Florida Intrenational University and is a graduate of the University of Miami’s Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program. She began her singing career in high school, but her earliest memory is poring through her mom’s record collection, practically wearing out the vinyl on Elton John and Beatles records. Eventually, her heart found its way to jazz and it has felt like home ever since. Wendy has won many awards including the Southern Bell/Pace “Jazz Artist of the Year” and a Miami New Times “best vocalist”

Dedicated to You

By Jorge Garcia

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Minority; This One’s for Richie; With You Always; Over the Rainbow; You Fascinate Me So; S’Wonderful; Dedicated to You.

Jorge Garcia: Dedicated to You

by Jack Bowers
February 26, 2022

Gigi Gryce's turbo-charged “Minority," which opens Cuban-born guitarist Jorge Garcia's Dedicated to You, serves as a reminder of how much talent the world lost when alto saxophonist Richie Cole died in May 2020. And if that weren't enough to persuade any doubters, the vibrant “This One's for Richie" (based, appropriately, on the standard “There Will Never ...

A Tribute to Ron Miller

Label: Distrokid
Released: 2021

We Two

By Wendy Pedersen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Late Late Show; It Ain't Necessarily So; If I Should Lose You / If Ever I Would Leave You; Everything But You; Jitterbug Waltz; Besame Mucho; The Best Thing For You, Just Me; Meet Me At No Special Place; 'Round Midnight; My Favorite Things; Oh, What A Beautiful Morning; Exactly Like You.

Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior: We Two

by Edward Blanco
February 28, 2016

Long-time friends and two of South Florida's most enduring and favorite performers for a decade and more, vocalist Wendy Pedersen and pianist Jim Gasior present a session of light vocal jazz on We Two, their first solo album together offering new interpretations of the music from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, the ...

Jeremy Fox: With Love

by Dan Bilawsky
June 15, 2014

Top-shelf vocal talents, beautifully crafted arrangements of classic songs, and a mile-long list of musicians to make said arrangements come to life. What's not to like? Jeremy Fox--a pianist/educator/arranger/vocal coach who's worked with everybody from trumpeter Terence Blanchard to vocalist Theo Bleckmann--put together a project that recalls the days of big-budget studio affairs ...

Jeremy Fox: With Love

by Edward Blanco
April 13, 2014

Dr. Jeremy Fox has certainly made his mark in the jazz world but, not as a singer or musician but rather, as an educator/clinician, vocal coach and arranger, and on his inaugural album With Love, Fox offers an inspirational vocal album of jazz standards deserving serious attention. Assembling a group of ten world-class vocalist with varied ...

Mike Levine: Thinking Of You

by Edward Blanco
April 12, 2012

Presenting his follow-up to the well-received debut, From The Heart (Rhombus Records, 2008), Miami-based pianist/composer Mike Levine offers a lively set of primarily original material on Thinking Of You, full of rich melodies and harmonies in a wonderful artful production of smooth jazz. A first-call and in-demand musician, Levine has performed with many jazz giants in ...

Great Jazz Vocalist Performs Worldwide On WLRN's South Fla. Arts Beat

January 31, 2012

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Featuring Wendy Pedersen One of South Florida's treasured musicians, Wendy Pedersen is a mainstay of the local music scene. A graduate of The University of Miami's Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program, she has won numerous ...