"When Rebecca sings, the sun comes out." - Johnny Mandel. Join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at Jazz at Dante.
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Please join us, along with American jazz singer Rebecca Kilgore, in a tribute to Ruth Etting and Doris Day, on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at Jazz at Dante. With Steinway jazz artist extraordinaire Randy Porter on piano, and master bassist Tom Wakeling. We never want you to miss any SJC performance, but sometimes we feel compelled to give you the heads up. You won’t want to miss this one and remember, it’s on a Wednesday.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rebecca-kilgore-love-me-or-leave-me-tribute-tickets-62388447526 ... See MoreSee Less
Shelley Burns' tribute to American lyricist Sammy Cahn was magical. With Aaron Garner on piano, Shelley Denny on bass and Jeff Minnieweather on drums. Also, Beth Duncan Mistress of Ceremonies, guest Bill Dendle sat in on T-Bone, Glenn Boutte vocals, and Carolyne Swayze, on vocal rounded off the full house evening. ... See MoreSee Less
You asked and we've brought them back. Les Chanteurs: Shelley Burns, Beth Duncan and Carolyne Swayze at Jazz at Dante February 19, 2020. Tickets at Eventbrite.com ... See MoreSee Less
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Women Jazz Composers SeriesOn October 28, 2019, the Sacramento Jazz Coop featured the Laura Klein Trio with Beth Duncan, paying tribute to Women Jazz Composers. A featured artist was the music of Martine Tabilio, a living testament that life begins at 50 when two of her most relevant professional undertakings merged allowing her to write her first composition.
Born in The Netherlands in 1951, she came to Oakland in 1959. Martine began classical piano at age nine, accompanied the high school chorus at the piano, and sang in Oliver, Oklahoma, and Music Man. Attending UC Davis and Berkeley she developed a taste for jazz and the Great American Song Book and was the vocalist in several jazz bands during the college years.
Martine married Jim Tabilio in San Francisco, and the couple moved to Los Angeles where she hoped to pursue a career in film. That turned out to be harder than it looked. While writing, pitching, meeting, and doing lunch; while plotting and dreaming about breaking into the movies; while waiting for their people to call her people, Martine worked as a script editor, copy writer, tutor, journalism teacher, and for twenty years, as a beginning and intermediate piano teacher. Still occasionally performing, she says her standing, nightly gig was singing standards to daughter Marika at bed time.
In 2001 the two things to which she’d always dreamed – music and writing – converged, and she wrote her first song inspired by events of 9-1-1. From that dark place more was to follow, allowing her to do what she wanted; composing music and creating lyrics. Since that time, she has collaborated with some of LA’s finest jazz artists, including Tierney Sutton, Tamil Hendleman, Christian Jacob, Josh Nelson, Sara Gazaryk, and Bill Cunlife. In 2008, she teamed with Sacramento's own Beth Duncan, who recorded several Tabilio tunes, including Comes the Fall, the name of Beth’s most recent CD. Beth’s soon to be released album; I’m All Yours, is dedicated entirely to the composer. SJC salutes Martine Tabilio ... See MoreSee Less
Just take a listen to Shelley Burns' beautiful rendition of the Alan and Marilyn Bergman/Michelle Legrand classic standard, You Must Believe in Spring. On Monday November 4, 2019 SJC presents the versatile performer when she pays tribute to another classic jazz American Songbook composer, Sammy Cahn. With Aaron Garner on piano, Shelley Denny on bass, and Jeff Minnieweather on drums. The dinner option is no longer being offered but we have extra steak dinners and two extra scallop ($35 each) dinners if you are interested in dining with us. Contact us at sjc@thesjc.org for details. Show tickets available through Eventbrite.com
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Joanne Brackeen was born Joanne Grogan, in Ventura California in 1938. She taught herself to play at an early age, and by the late ‘50s, was gigging with saxophonist Teddy Edwards, Dexter Gordon, Harold Land, Charles Lloyd, and Charles Brackeen, whom she married and moved to NYC. Upon their divorce, she raised their four children while continuing to perform. She has made numerous recordings and worked with Woody Shaw, Stan Getz, Dave Liebman, Toots Thielmans. She was the first and only woman to play in the Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. For decades she has led her own trios, composing and recording hundreds of her own groundbreaking compositions. She is a professor at Berklee College of Music and the New School and has won numerous awards including 2018 NEA Jazz Master. Her composition here C-Sri was featured recently by Laura Klein Trio in the Sacramento Jazz Coop series featuring Women Jazz Composers. ... See MoreSee Less
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