MALA WALDRON
Mala’s music career has taken her all over the world, performing for international tours and festivals, as well in some of NYC’s most prestigious stages, including the Iridium Jazz Club, the Blue Note, the Jazz Standard, the 55 Bar, and Brooklyn’s BAM Café. Most recently she performed in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center.
Mala was a featured performer at the first annual Coltrane Day Festival, was featured in the book, Giving Birth to Sound: Women in Creative Music (Renate da Rin and & William Parker editors) and can be seen in the documentary film, ‘The Girls in the Band,” directed by Judy Chaikin.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Gabrielle Goodman was born October 23, 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland and her early years of singing in church in Baltimore gave her the skillset to blend jazz and gospel. As a protege of Roberta Flack began her international performance career as a backing vocalist for Flack in the mid-1980s while at the Peabody Institute. She continued to tour and record with her mentor for several years opening for Miles Davis, Ray Charles, the Crusaders and other legends in Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and others around the world.
Goodman’s breakthrough as a solo recording artist happened when she appeared on Norman Connors 1988 album Passion on Capitol Records. She sang lead on five songs, which led to her recording two jazz albums Travelin’ Light in 1993 and Until We Love the following year with Kevin Eubanks, Christian Mcbride, Gary Bartz, Gary Thomas, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
It would be another ten years before she would drop her third album which landed in the soul jazz category ~ Angel Eyes, Songs From The Book and Spiritual Tapestry for the Goodness label. As a touring and performing solo artist she has played festivals and with symphony orchestras.
Goodman has written and arranged songs for Chaka Khan and Roberta Flack, performed alongside Dee Dee Bridgewater and Michael Buble, and also provided vocals for Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Patrice Rushen, Freddie Jackson, Bryan Ferry, and George Duke.
Vocalist, composer, author, and educator Gabrielle Goodman has a four-octave vocal range and has been an associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music since 1998.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Ford Lee “Buck” Washington was born October 16, 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky. He and John W. Sublett, known by his stage name Bubbles, first began working together in the 1910s, while in his teens. Their duo was known as Buck and Bubbles.
Bubbles was primarily a tap dancer while Washington sang and played stride piano and sang. They were so popular that the duo moved to Manhattan, New York City in 1919 and by the late 1920s they were on Broadway. They played together in the Columbia Theater, the Palace, performing with Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, and Danny Kaye. They were in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931.
They became the first black artists to perform at Radio City Music Hall. They toured Europe in the 1930s and appeared on television and in films, including Calling All Stars in 1937 and Cabin in the Sky in 1942. They performed live in the first scheduled high definition television program on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Palace in London, England for the BBC. In 1927, when Buck and Bubbles were performing at the Sunset Café, Buck developed a working relationship and friendship with Louis Armstrong.
As a pianist, Washington also recorded sessions in the 1930s with jazz musicians including Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Benny Goodman and Coleman Hawkins. He also played trumpet, though he only made home recordings on the instrument. He continued working with Bubbles until 1953, and then for a couple of years worked with Timmie Rogers and Jonah Jones.
Pianist, singer and vaudeville performer Buck Washington, with partner Bubbles were the first black artists to appear on television anywhere in the world, transitioned on January 31, 1955 in New York City.
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CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT | OGRESSE
“She falls in love. She eats the guy. She dies.”
Jazz meets theater in Ogresse, a new musical journey of myth and song created by award-winning vocalist and master storyteller Cécile McLorin Salvant. With its dark, romantic “fairytale-like” story, Ogresse is a delightfully poignant and playful addition to Salvant’s, award-winning, eclectic body of work.
“There’s this monstrous vile strength in her, a little bit of madness,” Salvant says of the titular beast. “The songs are these beautifully matched beads on a necklace that hang together so well, conjuring archetypes and exploring matters of race and sexuality, and our fears and prejudices. It’s one of my most thrilling moments as a singer.”
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CARMEN LUNDY & FRIENDS
Ring in 2023 in style when our always popular A Jazz New Year’s Eve returns to the Terrace Theater! This year stars the incomparable vocalist Carmen Lundy and, in Lundy’s own words, “a reunion of friends with some of the finest musical talent of our era.”
Lundy is renowned worldwide for her coolly expert, classic-to-contemporary sound. The Evening Standard describes it best: “in a world of pretenders, Carmen Lundy is a genuine Jazz Singer.” The vocalist and composer will be joined by special guests including vibraphonist Warren Wolf and VSA International Young Soloist and Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead alumnus Matthew Whitaker.
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