Showing posts with label Cilla Owens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cilla Owens. Show all posts

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Cilla Owens - 'tis What It Is

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:20
Size: 124.4 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. I Mean You
[4:17] 2. Little Niles
[3:24] 3. Thou Swell
[2:06] 4. Twisted
[4:57] 5. 'tis What It Is
[5:18] 6. The Nearness Of You
[7:40] 7. Little Sunflower
[3:23] 8. You Don't Know What Love Is
[6:15] 9. What Is This Thing Called Love
[4:13] 10. Simple Samba
[4:20] 11. Take The 'a' Train
[4:12] 12. Fine And Mellow

Cilla Owens' credits include appearances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Blue Note, the original Small's Paradise, Symphony Space, Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, and the legendary Village Gate. She has performed in Germany, the Caribbean, and at various music festivals including Jazzmobile, The Newport Summer Fest, and La Fete de la Musique. For several years she performed with the Great Day Chorale, dedicated to the preservation of the Negro Spiritual, under the inimitable direction of master musicologist Louvinia Pointer. Cilla Owens is presently the Director of the Jazz Vocal Workshop at Hunter College/CUNY, where she earned a second B.A. in Music, and a M.A. in Performance. She is also the founder/director of the Jazzvox Performance Workshop as well as a private vocal coach.

Throughout the years Cilla has had the pleasure of performing with a variety of artists including Lionel Hampton, Bross Townsend, Michael Hill, Bob Cunningham, Tony Lewis, and Babi Floyd. She is a regular at the historic Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village, where she gets to rock the house along with Paul Shapiro's 'Ribs And Brisket Revue'.

'tis What It Is