GLASS CITY JAZZFEST
Lineup: Each set is 1:15
12:00 pm ~ Brick Bar All-Stars Josh Silver on piano, Ray Parker on bass, Scott Kretzer on drums, with vocalists Kim Buehler, Deborah Gardner, Theresa Harris, and Lori Lefevre
1:35 pm ~ Latin Jazz Players of Lima, Ohio
3:10 pm ~ Larry Fuller Trio
4:45 pm ~ Joey Sommerville, Trumpet
6:20 pm ~ Lindsey Webster, Vocal
7: 50 pm ~ Marcus Johnson, Keyboards
The event includes a preamble of music being scheduled starting with free shows at Toledo Spirits on Aug. 23, and followed by other free ones on Aug. 24 at the Brick Bar, Aug. 25 at Peacock Cafe, and Aug. 26 at Ottawa Park. The only paid event connected to Glass City JazzFest will be a VIP show being scheduled for Aug. 27 at Lucille’s Jazz Lounge
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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
This Jazz Voyager is still being very cautious about masking indoors and social distancing as the new B variants are cropping up around the world and are now hitting the shores of America. In light of these occurrences, today we are going to listen to the 1955 Ethel Ennis album recorded titled Lullabies For Losers that was released the same year on the Jubilee record label.
The cover was designed by Si Leichman, the liner notes were written by Mort Goode, and the photography by Charles Varon.
Track List | 37:32
- Love For Sale (Cole Porter) ~ 3:19
- Dreamer~Dreamer (Irving Caesar, Oskar Strauss) ~ 4:30
- Blue Prelude (Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop) ~ 3:00
- Off Shore (Leo Diamond, Michael H. Goldsen) ~ 3:55
- Casually (Alan McCarthy, Richard Freitas) ~ 3:57
- Hey Jacques (Eden Ahnez, Wayne Shanklin) ~ 3:03
- Lullaby For Losers (Robert Stringer) ~ 3:00
- Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Al Frisch, Kathleen G. Twomey, Fred Wise) ~ 2:58
- You Better Go Now (Bickley Reichner / Robert Graham) ~ 3:29
- Blue Willow (Vic Harrington) ~ 3:23
- Bon Voyage (DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) ~ 4:18
- Ethel Ennis ~ Vocal
- Hank Jones ~ Piano
- Eddie Biggs ~ Guitar
- Abie Baker ~ Double Bass
- Kenny Clarke ~ Drums
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Barbara Jordan was born on July 13, 1951 in Montreal, Canada and when she was in her last year of high school she realized her singing ability. Her high school music teacher, Iwan Edwards, encouraged her to audition for the lead role of Laurie in the musical Oklahoma. Getting the part she received her first lessons in stage presence and delivering a song. She joined the high school choir, and took a vocal music class in her last year of high school.
Joining an acapella choir outside of school, she also spent five years in this choir performing around Montreal and touring Western Canada and competed in the Eisteddfod in Wales. Her professional musical career began as a folk singer prior to becoming a multi-lingual vocalist with several leading disco, pop and country/western bands in and around the Montreal area.
Settling in Toronto, Canada she has acquired a reputation over the years singing traditional and swing. She has continuously performed in clubs around the Toronto area, New York, and New Orleans, as well as at various jazz festivals in Ontario, Montana, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, Florida; Newcastle, England and Paris, France.
Trad jazz, dixieland and swing vocalist Barbara Jordan, whose influences were Mildred Bailey, Peggy Lee and Lee Wiley, continues to lead her quartet and appear regularly.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Kitty White was born Kitty Jean Bilbrew on July 7, 1923 in Los Angeles, California. Raised in a musical family, her parents were singers, and her uncle was a well-known vaudevillian and disc jockey. Her twin sister, Maudie Jeanette, also sang and briefly worked with Duke Ellington’s revue, Jump for Joy, but never pursued an active career. Their mother, known as A.C. Bilbrew, organized an all-black chorus that performed in the 1929 film Hearts of Dixie.
She started her career at the age of sixteen as a singer and a pianist, appearing in local nightclubs around Los Angeles. Branching out she opened at the Black Orchid in Chicago, Illinois and was introduced to the executives of Mercury Records, where she became a recording artist.
Kitty picked up her catchy jazz name legitimately by marrying songwriter Eddie White in the 1940s. She moved to Palm Springs, California in 1967 and sang at the Spa Hotel for sixteen years.
Recording mostly on the West Coast, she worked with Buddy Collette, Gerald Wiggins, Chico Hamilton, Bud Shank and Red Callender. She sang many demo recordings for her friend, Los Angeles blues composer Jessie Mae Robinson, including I Went To Your Wedding, a No. 1 hit for Patti Page in 1953. She was also the sole female voice on Elvis Presley’s song Crawfish from the King Creole film soundtrack.
Vocalist Kitty White, who recorded eight albums as a leader and had two compilations released, transitioned in Palm Springs, at the age of 86 on August 11, 2009 after suffering a stroke.
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JAZZMEIA HORN & TERENCE BLANCHARD
Friday, August 26, 2022 | 7:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm
Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force / Calvin Booker On Tap & Friends
Saturday, August 27, 2022 | 3:00 pm ~ 7:00 pm
Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet / Buster Williams & Something More / NIKARA presents Black Wall Street / Vuyo Sotashe
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