KEITH DAVID
Keith David With The Noel Freidline Quartet
A classically trained, multiple Emmy award winning actor and voiceover talent, he is also a remarkable singer. He has presented Too Marvelous for Words, in which he portrays the legendary singer Nat King Cole, at venues around the country. He is developing a show about the legendary blues singer Joe Williams, Here’s to Life.
Born and raised in New York, Keith became interested in the arts at a very young age. After appearing in his school’s production of The Wizard of Oz, he knew this was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He enrolled in New York’s High School of the Performing Arts and continued his studies at The Juilliard School. After graduation, he was immediately hired by Joseph Papp as an understudy for the role of Tullus Aufidius in William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. His work with Mr. Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival launched his incredible career.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Jeanette Kimball was born Jeanette Salvant on December 18, 1906 in Pass Christian, Mississippi, the niece of blues pianist Isadore “Tuts” Washington. When she was seven she began playing the piano and as a teenager she performed as a professional musician with classical string formations, then in the field of jazz.
Moving to New Orleans, Louisiana she played in traditional jazz bands, first in 1926 in a “society” dance band, Papa Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Orchestra, with whom she went on tour in the southern United States. By 1929 she had married Celestin’s banjo and guitar player Narvin Kimball, and six years later left the band to raise their children. Post divorce, she retained Kimball and started her career anew in the mid-1940s. She went on to work with Buddy Charles, Herb Leary and Sidney Desvigne.
The 1950s saw Kimball working again with Papa Celestin, when he reactivated his band, which then was under the guidance of Papa French. She was a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and played with Clive Wilson’s Original Camellia Jazz Band.
She appeared in 1976 on the Jazz Festival Breda live 1999 album Jeanette Kimball Meets the Fondy Riverside Bullet Band; their album Sophisticated Lady with Frank Fields and Freddie Kohlman. In the field of jazz, Jeanette worked between 1953 and 1991 on 72 recording sessions, among others with Alvin Alcorn, Paul Barbarin, Papa Celestin, Punch Miller and Johnny St. Cyr.
She left New Orleans in the 1990s to live in Ohio and South Carolina. Pianist Jeanette Kimball, received the Black Men of Labor Jazz Legacy Award in 1998, transitioned in Charleston, South Carolina, at the age of 94 on March 28, 2001.
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QUIANA PARLER
with The Lavon Stevens Trio
As lead vocalist, lyricist, and composer for internationally and critically acclaimed two-time Grammy Award-winning roots music group, Ranky Tanky, Parler spent weeks at #1 on several Billboard Jazz charts.
Quiana has spent over 20 years as the most sought-after vocalist in the Lowcountry. Known locally for years prior, she rose to national prominence after her success on the 2003 season of American Idol.
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SUTTON FOSTER
Tony Award®-winning actress and singer Sutton Foster returns to The Parker with Sutton Foster: Christmas Time Is Here! This show will feature her singing a collection of songs that includes a mixture of holiday classics and her own personal holiday favorites.
Foster is one of her generation’s most celebrated Broadway actresses, having won two Tony Awards® for her performances in Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has starred in numerous other Broadway productions, including Violet, Young Frankenstein, Shrek the Musical, and most recently concluded a lauded run in The Music Man.
Other notable stage performances include Into the Woods, Sweet Charity, and The Wild Party. In addition to her work on stage, Foster is known for her performances on television, including the hit series Younger, Bunheads, The Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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CHRISTIAN SANDS
Steinway Artist & 6-time Grammy Nominee Christian Sands is an emerging jazz force. His abundant piano technique perfectly matches his conception, accomplishing a much deeper musical goal: a fresh look at the entire language of jazz.
It wasn’t long ago Christian Sands was being called “a jazz star of the future” by such luminaries as Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride, whom he toured the world with as part of McBride’s Trio. Well, that future has arrived. At only 32, pianist and composer Christian Sands is arguably the leading pianist of his generation.
“…few of his peers have so many achievements to contemplate: piano prodigy at the age of four, leading gigs at 12 and playing with masters like Billy Taylor, Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock during his teens.” – Downbeat Magazine
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