Legendary jazz vocalist as well as two-time Grammy® Award-winner, Diane Schuur joins New Albany’s ain jazz legend as well as 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Jamey Aebersold as well as his Quartet inwards bringing the Great American Songbook to life. Often referred to equally “American Standards,” the Songbook is a uniquely American collection of pop music from the 1920s to the 1960s. Composers include George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, as well as Cole Porter whose songs were popularized past times singers such equally Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, as well as Mel Tormé.
Diane Schuur’s expressive as well as powerful vocals select placed her amongst jazz greats such equally Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald as well as Sarah Vaughan. She has performed inwards some of the most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center as well as twice at the White House. Her musical collaborations include the Count Basie Orchestra, Barry Manilow, B.B. King, as well as Ray Charles, amongst countless others. Diane has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, on PBS, as well as many other television receiver specials, including a see to Sesame Street.
Long regarded equally 1 of Contemporary Jazz's leading vocalists, Diane Schuur is equally eclectic equally she is brilliant. Born inwards Tacoma, Washington inwards 1953, Schuur was blind from birth; simply she was gifted with perfect pitch as well as initially taught herself pianoforte past times ear. She after received formal pianoforte grooming at The Washington State School for the Blind, which she attended until she was xi years of age.
Nicknamed "Deedles" equally a child, she grew upward surrounded past times the basis of Jazz embraced past times both of her parents: Her begetter was an amateur pianist, as well as her woman raise kept a formidable collection of Duke Ellington as well as Dinah Washington albums inwards her home. Not surprisingly, Dinah Washington is oftentimes listed equally Schuur's major vocal influence, as well as she learned the iconic singer's "What a Difference a Day Makes" spell she was yet a toddler. She equally good developed her ain rich, resonant vocal mode at a rattling immature age.
With a distinguished recording career that spans 3 decades, including ii Grammy® awards (Timeless as well as Diane Schuur as well as The Count Basie Orchestra on GRP Records), equally good equally 3 additional Grammy® nominations, Schuur's music has explored virtually every corner of the 20th Century musical landscape.
"A vocalist of odd warmth as well as power."
—The New York Times
"She's a natural vocaliser with an slow means of phrasing inwards the tradition of the groovy vocal interpreters."
—David Sanborn
"She tin sing virtually whatever style, from scat to province ballads that tin tear your pump out. In my opinion, Diane's got all the equipment to move 1 of the greats. She's the logical successor to Ella as well as Sarah."
—Stan Getz
"There is non a minute that goes past times that a individual is non practicing with a Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long record," Aebersold noted inwards a 2009 interview. These Play-A-Long recordings select made it possible for jazz players immature as well as quondam to do an interactive jazz surround inwards a classroom, their living room, on a street corner, or inwards a subway scheme station. With the production of his rootage Jazz "Play-A-Long" recording inwards 1967, a novel shape of jazz pedagogy began, 1 that allowed novice or professional person students to practise improvisational skills amongst professionals as well as noted jazz musicians without a classroom or a teacher--one that made practicing fun. For unopen to fifty years, Aebersold has produced 133 volumes of jazz recordings as well as books, along with diverse supplemental items, carving out a novel avenue for jazz education.
In 1962, Aebersold graduated from Indiana University with a master's marking inwards saxophone, 1 of several instruments he plays (he equally good plays the piano, bass as well as banjo). Aebersold's inspiration to do the rootage Play-A-Long recording came inwards 1966 spell assisting at a workshop inwards Connecticut. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pupil requested a recording of his pianoforte accompaniment, with which he could hence rehearse as well as improvise at home. That rootage volume, titled How to Play Jazz as well as Improvise, has since been translated into half dozen languages as well as is sold all over the world. The Play-A-Longs characteristic such well-known musicians as, Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker, Dave Brubeck, Ron Carter, David Liebman, Mulgrew Miller, Jimmy Raney, as well as Cedar Walton.
In 1989, Aebersold was inducted into the International Association for Jazz Education Hall of Fame as well as inwards 2004 the Jazz Midwest Clinic honored him with the Medal of Honor inwards jazz education. Aebersold has taught at 3 colleges as well as universities inwards the Louisville, Kentucky, area, as well as inwards 1992 he received an honorary doctorate of music from Indiana University. He continues to teach, comport jazz clinics around the country, as well as perform equally leader of the Jamey Aebersold Quartet inwards add-on to running Jamey Aebersold Jazz.
In 2014, Aebersold was named an NEA Jazz Master past times the National Endowment for the Arts.
WHEN: Friday, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:30 pm
WHERE: The Richard K. Stem Concert Hall
TICKETS: $29 inwards advance, $33 at the door. $10 for students.
CONTACT: 812.941.2525 during normal Ticket utilisation hours (Mon-Thurs. 10am-5pmOr inwards individual @ the Ogle Center Ticket Office located inwards the entrance hall of the Ogle Center on the IU Southeast campus at 4201 Grant Line Road, New Albany, IN 47150.
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