LAVAHI
Carrie’s Corner Presents: Jazz Under The Stars
Lavahi is a scholar-artist on a mission to better society from the inside out. Through her music, scholarship, and performance, she is building a platform to nourish the heart and mind, empathize our human experiences, and vibe together.
As a daughter of jazz, the culture heavily informs her ideology and influences her sound. Acrobatic scatting, compelling chords, and the art of improvisation evoke that classic traditional aesthetic and set her contemporary sound apart from the norm of mainstream neo-soul, hip hop, and R&B. And with her satisfying blend of analog and digital sounds, Lavahi shows that the lineage of Black sound is not linear but ever folding and stretching.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Maria Speight was born in Savannah, Georgia on July 4, 1958 and got a head start in the world of jazz, as her birthplace is the home of kindred brother, lyricist Johnny Mercer. The oldest of five siblings, her mother thrust her onstage at her local church when she was six. From that moment on she was hooked.
Her dad was exposed to everything from opera to jazz and her mother taught Maria about Gospel music, and was exposed to so many influences of music, and have found they are part of her style. In college she studied operatic voice for four years, however, after her last recital she realized opera wasn’t for her. It was at this point six years later that she found jazz.
Touring professionally fourteen years with a gospel band and paid her dues for her life in jazz. Her style is in the vein of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee and the standards she performs endure.
Now based in Perth, Scotland she is new on the jazz scene. She weaves rich colours and textures into every swinging note with the Maria Speight Quintet.
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NICOLE HENRY
Since her debut, Nicole Henry has established herself among the jazz world’s most acclaimed performers, possessing a potent combination of dynamic vocal abilities, impeccable phrasing, and powerful emotional resonance.
Her passionate, soulful voice and heartfelt charisma have earned her a Soul Train Award for “Best Traditional Jazz Performance,” and four Top-10 jazz albums on U.S. Billboard, Jazz Week, HMV Japan & UK Sweet Rhythms charts. Heralded by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, El Pais, Jazz Times, Essence and more, Ms. Henry tells real stories through peerless interpretations of repertoire from the American Songbook, classic and contemporary jazz, popular standards, blues and originals.
Showtimes:
Friday & Saturday: 7:00pm & 9:30pm
Sunday: 6:00pm & 8:30pm
Tickets: $40.00 +fee
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TESSA SOUTER
The vocalist celebrates the release of her album Release Party of Shadows and Silence: The Eric Satie Project. She brings with her pianist Luis Perdomo, drummer Billy Drummond, bassist Boris Kozlov, plus special guest saxophonist Steve Wilson.
New York-based, London-born of Afro-Trinidadian and English parents, New York Times critics pick Tessa Souter grew up surrounded by music. Her mother, a talented amateur singer, taught her to sing when she was three, and she took piano lessons from aged eight to 12, before switching to the guitar, learning by ear to accompany herself singing songs by, among others, Sandy Denny and Jacquie McPhee of the jazz-folk bands Fairport Convention and Pentangle.
“My piano teacher had advised me to take up singing when she heard my voice so, when around that age, my mother told me that my birth father had been a singer, it felt like a connection to this person I had never known,” says Tessa. When she finally met him in her late 20s, the first thing he did was sing to her in the street. “Just the sound of his beautiful tenor, vibrated every bone in my body.”
Tickets: $30.00
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TIFFANY GRIDIRON TRIO
Tiffany Gridiron is a gifted jazz vocalist and songwriter whose sultry vocals and playful approach have excited audiences around the world. She began singing as a child in her family church, but was particularly inspired by singer Jill Scott before being introduced to the poetry and improvisation of jazz through vocalist and educator Sunny Wilkinson.
Tiffany has recorded five CDs of jazz standards, released by Sony Records Japan, that feature such musical greats as Hank Jones, Tadataka Unno, Omar Hakim, and many others. In September of 2023, Tiffany released on all digital platforms, her most personal album to date with friend, producer, trumpeter and arranger Kris Johnson. Five of the album’s eight songs feature lyrics penned by Gridiron and co-composed by Johnson, with Brendon Davis (piano), Jonathan Muir-Cotton (bass), Nate Winn (drums), and Vivienne Smith (background vocals) also adding their beautiful artistry to this material.
The Performers:
Tiffany Gridiron: Vocals | Aya Sekine: Piano | Sam Corey: Bass
Cover: $75 w/$55 dinner credit | $40 w/$20 credit | 18% gratuity + fees
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