MP3 Grace Kelly - Every Road I Walked
.........."the jazz world has another great reason to celebrate with the arrival of Grace Kelly. Her talent makes her a triple threat as a brilliant saxophonist, a very gifted composer, and vocalist with great feeling.
14 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo, JAZZ: Jazz Vocals
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"The future of our music is in good hands."
…..Jimmy Heath.
“I first met Grace Kelly at the 2006 summer jazz program at Stanford University. I was amazed at her precocity and talent. Recently she sat in with me and the Jazz Ambassadors Jazz Band at the Pittsfield Jazz Fest. and we jammed together through "I''ll Remember April." How did she sound? I gave her my hat! That is how good she sounded! She is the first alto player to get one. Hooray for the future of jazz and the alto sax!"
………Phil Woods
Singer, songwriter, saxophonist Grace Kelly from Brookline, MA has the boundless spirit and imagination of a natural artist. Grace has shown talents like no other her age (now 14). Grace has recorded and/or performed with Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Jerry Bergonzi, Cedar Walton, James Cotton, James Montgomery, Terri Lyne Carrington, Chris Potter, John Lockwood, Yoron Israel, George Colligan, Mark Gross, Doug Johnson, Christian Scott, Esperanza Spalding, Harold Mann, Ken Berman, Al Vega, and Bo and Bill Winiker among others.
Grace just won four 2006 Down Beat Magazine Student Music Awards. Jazz Soloist, Original Composition "Fast Metabolism", Pop/Rock/Blues soloist, and Jazz Vocalist - Outstanding Performance.
Over the past three years Grace has performed in venues in Boston and New York including Carnegie Hall, Boston''s Symphony Hall, Dizzy''s Club Cocoa Cola, Jazz Gallery, Sweet Rhythm, Scullers Jazz Club, Regatta Bar, Tanglewood Jazz Festival, East Coast Jazz Festival, Pittsfield Jazz Festival, Acton Jazz Café. Media appearances including WGBH with Eric Jackson, WICN, CBS TV4, Fox25 News, NECN. Grace participated in two separate ensembles that were both prize winners in the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in 2005, and won first place in 2006 and performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC. At 13yrs old Grace became the youngest ever finalist winner in the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship competition at the East Coast Jazz Festival 2006
Grace currently studies saxophone with Lee Konitz, Jerry Bergonzi, and Mike Tucker. Grace has also studied with Cedar Walton, Phil Woods, Jimmy Heath, Steve Wilson, Willie Jones, III, Jeremy Udden and James Merenda. Grace is in the certificate programs at both the New England Conservatory Prep School, as well as Brookline Music School. Grace also studies jazz piano with Doug Johnson.
As a songwriter Grace utilizes many forms and styles of music in her original works. As demonstrated on her first CD “Dreaming” released March of 2005. which prompted the acclaimed Ann Hampton Callaway to write, "Singer, songwriter , saxophonist Grace Kelly has the boundless spirit and imagination of a natural artist. There''s no telling how far this child prodigy will go with the limitless possibilities of her voluminous talents."
Graces second CD "Times Too" was released in Dec 2005 and includes the Downbeat Award winning original composition "Fast Metabolism".
Her third Cd release "Every Road I Walked" has received much praise even before it''s official release. The pianist of the famous Jazz Messengers Donald Brown said of her third release, "the jazz world has another great reason to celebrate with the arrival of Grace Kelly. Her talent makes her a triple threat as a brilliant saxophonist, a very gifted composer, and vocalist with great feeling. Her playing represents everything I love about jazz, swinging, imagination, and the blues. You must check out this Cd
Grace will be touring with her quartet to back the album''s release which will kickoff at TCAN and then head to Tromso, Norway before returning to the USA at Scullers Jazz Club.