Half Note Jazz Club presents Carmen Lundy one of jazz's leading voices starting Thursday 19 until Sunday 22 January 2012.
THECarmen Lundyas a contemporary singer she has a unique style that comfortably combines her funk elementAretha Franklinwith her brillianceElla Fitzgeraldand Sarah Vaughan's colorings. More than just a singer though, orCarmen Lundyshe is a composer, he writes songs, she is an actress and, additional, very good painter.
He has been on the jazz scene for over three decades – having started music at an early age, playing the piano and singing gospel and spirituals. But what really attracted her was the brilliance of soul jazz as expressed by her Dionne Warwick, the Roberta Flackor even himStevie Wonder.
In the late 1970s he began singing with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis' orchestra and then played with the cream of modern jazz musicians such as Don Pullen, Kip Hanrahan, Courtney Pine et al. In the mid-eighties she started releasing her own music and that's when her enormous talent was noticed. Since then Carmen Lundy's career has continued to develop at all levels and today she is considered one of the leading jazzwomen…
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