Saturday, May 24, 2014

Sara Gazarek - Live At The Jazz Bakery

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:53
Size: 123.4 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Cheek To Cheek
[2:44] 2. Too Darn Hot
[4:27] 3. More
[4:03] 4. Yours
[3:38] 5. You Are My Sunshine
[3:04] 6. So This Is Love
[4:25] 7. Give Me That Smile
[6:24] 8. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
[4:25] 9. You've Changed
[3:36] 10. Let's Try This Again
[8:09] 11. Don't Know How To Stay
[4:50] 12. Makes Me Feel This Way

Gazarek didn’t discover her calling until her senior year, when her school band flew to New York City to compete in the Essentially Ellington Competition, hosted by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. It was the first year that the competition included a big band vocal feature, so Gazarek joined the band, and ended up walking away with the first ever Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Vocal Soloist Award.

When Gazarek arrived at the University of Southern California, she was the only jazz studies vocal major in her class, and quickly discovered that she was way behind her peers when it came to jazz theory. She spent much of the first year off by herself studying for hours every day, listening closely to classic recordings by Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and Hank Mobley. She studied privately with vocalists Tierney Sutton and Carmen Bradford, pianist Shelly Berg and bassist/arranger John Clayton, who become one of her most important champions.

At USC, Sara helped develop the JazzReach program, spending two years as a jazz choir director with inner city elementary school children. “I was fortunate to have a very passionate jazz educator at my high school, and know that if it wasn’t for Scott, I probably wouldn’t have discovered my own love of jazz. The idea of lighting that flame in even just one young musician is exciting to me.”

Sara Gazarek, voice; Josh Nelson, piano; Erik Kertes, bass; Matt Slocum, drums. Special Guest, Katisse Buckingham, flute

Live At The Jazz Bakery

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