BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.yoshis.com/oakland//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.5// X-WR-CALNAME:www.yoshis.com/oakland X-WR-CALDESC:www.yoshis.com/oakland X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130525T050608CEST-2914sh60jR@www.yoshis.com/oakland DTSTAMP:20130525T030508Z DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n \;\n"\;One of the outstanding jazz vocalist s of her generation and\, quite possibly\, of all time...rivaling the dext erous sass of Sarah Vaughan\, the instinctive smarts of Carmen McRae and t he scintillating verve of Diana Krall."\; - Christopher Louden\, JAZZT IMES\nJackie Ryan celebrates the release of her chart-topping CD &ldquo\;L isten Here\,' - a tour de force piloted by GRAMMY Award winner John Clayto n through a myriad of jazz idioms -blues &\; gospel flavored jazz gems\ , luscious love songs\, a soaring Spanish ballad\, a Gershwin classic\, pu lsating samba rhythms - culminating with the title track: a stunning duet with 3-time GRAMMY nominee Gerald Clayton.\n"\;Those who hear her are the fortunate ones\,"\; writes Howard Mandel - president\, Jazz Journa lists Association\; "\; An astonishing contralto voice\,&rdquo\; (DOWN BEAT)\, thrilling audiences across the globe with her powerful 3 &\; 1/ 2 octave range and her magnetic stage presence - and amassing\, along the way\, an impressive array of records (two back-to-back #1 CDs on JazzWeek' s nationwide chart) and glowing reviews.\nHer last outing - a double CD\, DOOZY - featured Cyrus Chestnut\, Eric Alexander\, Jeremy Pelt\, Carl Alle n\, Ray Drummond and Romero Lubambo\, garnered universal praise (4-Stars f rom both DOWNBEAT and AMG)\, and held the #1 position nationwide on JazzWe ek's industry-standard chart for a record-breaking 7 solid weeks. Her prev ious CD\, featuring Red Holloway\, Tamir Hendelman\, and Jeff Hamilton amo ng others\, also received 4 stars from AMG and DOWNBEAT. In addition\, Ms. Ryan has recorded and/or performed with jazz greats: Toots Thielemans\, C lark Terry\, Terry Gibbs\, Buddy DeFranco\, Ernie Watts\, Scott Hamilton\, Amina Figarova\, Mike Wofford\, Jon Mayer\, Larry Vuckovich\, Barry Harri s\, Bill Cunliffe\, Shelly Berg\, Benny Green\, Emil Richards\, and Jon He ndricks.\nGRAMMY- Award winning John Clayton - who produced and arranged t his CD for Jackie - has a gift for arranging for singers (Diana Krall\, De e Dee Bridgewater\, Whitney Houston\, among others)\, and this pairing was a match made in musical heaven. "\;I first paid attention to Jackie w hen I heard her stunning recordings with The Jeff Hamilton Trio\,"\; J ohn says. "\;Her version of 'BESAME MUCHO' stopped me in my tracks.&qu ot\; For these special recordings\, John called on members of both the GRA MMY-nominated Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra\, and the Clayton Brothers Q uintet (nominated for two GRAMMY Awards) - the extraordinary pianist Geral d Clayton\, fiery percussionist Obed Calvaire\, soulful saxmaster Rickey W oodard\, trumpet virtuoso Gilbert Castellanos\, and gifted guitarist Graha m Dechter. John also lent his prodigious talents to this CD\, weaving a se nsitive bow - as on "\;A Time For Love\,"\; that literally melts i nto Ms. Ryan's sultry voice.\nMs. Ryan's rousing rendition of "\;The G ypsy In My Soul"\; perfectly reflects the gypsy in her soul - the far- reaching range of musical territory she traverses in her concerts and her lifelong love of jazz in all its manifold permutations. This ability to ex plore genres both culturally outside of jazz's mainstream\, as well as tho se conventional touchstones within its borders\, is the mark of a true jaz z mind. Not content to merely rehash the safety of well-worn standards\, J ackie will often overlook the ordinary\, and seek out and delve into the e xtraordinary\, the a-typical\, the exotic.\nMs. Ryan has been profiled as the featured artist for NPR\, Voice of America\, PRIMETIME A&\;E and CN N TV en Españ\;ol and has filled premier venues both here and abroad - Asia\, Australia\, and Europe (such as eight years at London's famed Ro nnie Scott's Club) - and festivals at home such as Telluride\, Monterey\, and the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival\, and packed concerts at New York's B irdland\, Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola\, Florida's Broward Cent er\, and the San Francisco Bay Area's Yoshi's.\nBut it is not by accident that her cross-cultural appeal "\;bridges the gap between both geograp hy and generations\,"\; as BILLBOARD so aptly put it. Part Irish\, par t Mexican\, she was born into it - and grew up listening to a unique blend of voices around her family's small home. Her father was of Irish descent \, born in San Francisco's Butchertown\, working night shifts and educatin g himself in Greek and Latin and singing classical pieces around the house in his trained baritone. Her mother (who sang operettas at the Teatro Deg ollado in Guadalajara) was Mexican and crooned Spanish folk songs to her a s a child. "\;I remember those romantic album covers she had with the Spanish ladies in brilliant colors\; and the melodies I heard\, the songs I heard\, just filled me up. So that's what I kept inside of me."\; Tr agically\, Jackie lost her mother at the age of 15 and\, in memory\, alway s includes a Spanish song in each of her CDs - in this case\, the passiona te "\;La Puerta."\;\nMs. Ryan's natural affinity for languages ext ends deeply into the language of jazz and its intricate structures. She po ssesses a keen ear for jazz phrasing and its internal rhymes - and\, as a lyricist\, has composed note-for-note vocalese to the scorching sax solos of Benny Carter's "\;DOOZY"\; and Joe Henderson's "\;The Kicke r."\; Her love of a great lyric is reflected in her choices for this c oncert and her CD - a collection celebrating some of her favorite lyricist s - from lesser-recorded jazz gems such as Carolyn Leigh's wry lyrics in & quot\;How Little We Know\,"\; to Abbey Lincoln's joyous ode to love an d life in "\;Throw It away."\; "\;Dear wonderful Abbey Lincoln was a true original\, one of my heroines\,&rdquo\; Jackie says. &ldquo\;I 've been a fan of her ever since I saw her as an actress in 'Nothing But A Man.' She had a freedom of expression - a voice for social activism she s hared with her husband\, Max Roach - their 'We Insist/Freedom Jazz Suite' was a masterpiece."\;\nIn this concert\, Jackie will offer us a bounty of lyrical choices. So give a "\;Listen Here\,"\; and you will be joining Jackie and these superb musicians on an adventurous journey acros s a most inviting\, expansive terrain - and maybe put a little gypsy in yo ur soul! DTSTART:20130324T200000 DTEND:20130324T220000 DURATION:PT3H LOCATION:Oakland SUMMARY:Jackie Ryan: CD Release END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR