SHEILA JORDAN @ 94!

Sheila Jordan @ 94! featuring Sheila Jordan on vocals, Roni Ben-Hur on guitar & Harvie S on bass!

Charlie Parker called her “the lady with million dollar ears,” and over the years, Sheila Jordan has been one of the most consistently creative singers in jazz. At 94, she remains a superb improviser, a magnificent scat singer, and an emotional interpreter of ballads. Consistently creative for nearly eight decades, Charlie Parker called her “the lady with million dollar ears.”

A colleague of Parker’s in the ‘50’s who wrote lyrics to his compositions, Ms. Jordan’s remarkable career has produced memorable performances, exceptional recordings and numerous awards like NEA Jazz Master.

Showtimes: 4:00pm & 6:00pm

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ELIANE ELIAS

A world-class pianist whose mastery of Jazz, Brazilian, Classical, Broadway and more has brought multiple awards, Eliane Elias celebrates the release of her new chart-topping album, “Quietude.” This all-Brazilian record follows her Grammy winning “Mirror Mirror.”

Jazz Weekly raves she is “not only one of the most adroit pianists in jazz, but with albums like this new one, has now entered the top tier of Brazilian vocalists.”

“Eliane Elias is of a generation of aggressive pianists who attack music like a lioness attacking its prey, at the same time expressing a tenderness within the core of her passion that at times has brought me to tears.”
– Herbie Hancock

December 9th & 10th Shows @ 7:00pm ~ SOLD OUT

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GEORGE V. JOHNSON ~ CD RELEASE PARTY

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The Jazz Voyager

This week I’m crossing the pond for the first time this year to La Ciotat, France to see my friend Delphine Nérot. She will perform at Chapelle des Minimes as a member of the Deene Trio, made up of accordion, bass and voice. The chapel is located in the southern part of the country on the Mediterranean Sea at Place Guibert, 13600.

The Protestant chapel is small, only 32 meters long and 6 meters wide. During the Revolution it was the headquarters of the Club des Antipolitiques, a popular 1791 society recognized as a subsidiary by the center of rue Thubaneau in Marseille. Adjoining the chapel is a synagogue on the left, open onto the car park Square Verdun, and on the right, a dance academy. The chapel boasts a beautifully crafted 300-year-old door. I know the acoustics will be fantastic.

This is my first time visiting this city and venue and I am so looking forward to this voyage. Although restrictions have been lifted, I am wary about the indoor air quality on planes and indoors with low ventilation, so this Jazz Voyager will still mask and social distance whenever possible.

As always, for more information visit notoriousjazz.com/event or  06 09 49 03 24 | www.facebook.com/laciotatculture.

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Daily Dose Of Jazz…

Lurlean Hunter was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi on December 1, 1919 and  was taken to Chicago, Illinois when she was two months old. She attended Englewood High School in Chicago.

Her first paid singing performance came when she appeared with Red Saunders and his orchestra at Club DeLisa on Chicago’s South Side. Hunter was signed by Discovery Records in 1950 and subsequently was a featured performer with George Shearing and his quintet at Birdland in New York City.

In 1951 Lurlean was among a group of rising young stars of jazz, that were presented at the Streamliner night club in Chicago. She performed at the Cloister Inn, where an initial four-week booking turned into a 2.5-year stay. She went on to work in New York and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Leaving Discovery, she began recording for Atlantic Records in 1961, with Blue and Sentimental as her first album for that label. She later recorded for RCA Victor. By 1963, Hunter became the first Black performer hired by WBBM radio in Chicago. After a successful on-air audition, she became a member of the staff of the all-live Music Wagon Show. Five years later the National Educational Television jazz broadcast featured her, accompanied by the Vernel Fournier Trio.

In 1958, she sued RCA Record Division after it used her image and her name on the cover of its, not her Lonesome Gal record album. The suit alleged “unfair competition, infringement of trade name, unfair business practices, unjust enrichment and invasion of the right of privacy.” Though the court acknowledged that the album contained the song “Lonesome Gal”, and that the use of one song’s title for an album’s title was common practice in the recording industry, it  ruled in Hunter’s favor on the basis that she was the first person to “adopt and establish the name Lonesome Gal as a personality” and that name was exclusively associated with her. Damages of $22,500 were awarded to Hunter, and the company was ordered to destroy all material containing Hunter’s likeness in conjunction with “Lonesome Gal”.

Vocalist Lurlean Hunter, who was a contralto and made commercials for products such as peas and telephone directories, transitioned on March 11, 1983 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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