Grace Kelly (musician)

Grace Kelly, 2015

Grace Kelly (born May 15, 1992 as Grace Chung in Wellesley , Massachusetts ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , flute , piano , drums , vocals ) and composer .

Live and act

Grace Kelly has Asian roots; her parents immigrated from South Korea. She grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts ; after her mother remarried, she took the Irish surname of her stepfather, who adopted her. At the age of six she had piano lessons; when she was seven she wrote her first songs. In high school, she learned the clarinet and then switched to the saxophone. After her training at the New England Conservatory of Music and from 2008 at Berklee College of Music in Boston , where she took lessons from Lee Konitz , Jerry Bergonzi and Allan Chase , she worked with jazz veterans Phil Woods and Frank Morgan .

At the age of twelve she had already presented her first album Dreaming on the family label Pazz Productions. By the age of 16, she appeared in jazz venues such as Birdland , Scullers, Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall , where she performed with Dave Brubeck , Wynton Marsalis , Hank Jones , Dianne Reeves, and Phil Woods. In 2008 she joined Marian McPartland NPR telecast Piano Jazz on. In 2016 Kelly released her tenth CD entitled Trying to Figure It Out .

In addition to jazz standards such as I'll Remember April , Stardust or It Might as Well Be Spring , she also integrates cover versions of pop songs into her repertoire , such as Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine or Stevie Wonders Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours . Her role models on the alto saxophone , her main instrument, are Charlie Parker , Jackie McLean , Phil Woods, Sonny Stitt and Cannonball Adderley ; influences from Wayne Shorter , John Coltrane and Stan Getz can be heard on the soprano and tenor saxophones .

Grace Kelly at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2013

Awards

In 2007 Kelly was the first time winner of the Young Jazz Composers Award of the ASCAP Foundation. The Downbeat honored Kelly at the annual Student Music Award ; She received other prizes for Best Saxophone Soloist, Best Vocalist, Best Original Composition and Outstanding Performance . At the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival she was recognized as a vocalist and woodwind player in her age group.

Discographic notes

Times Too (2005) with Doug Johnson , John Lockwood, and Yoron Israel
Every Road I Walked (2006)
Graceful-Lee (2008) with Lee Konitz, Russell Malone , Rufus Reid and Matt Wilson
Mood Changes (2009) with Hal Crook
Live at Scullers (PAZZ, 2013)

Web links

Commons : Grace Kelly (musician) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/grace-kelly-mn0001907418/biography Biography at allmusic.com
↑ ^a ^b Grace Kelly on Allmusic (English)
↑ ^a ^b Portrait at NPR - Piano Jazz (2008)
↑ This CD also contains the track Blues for Harry Bosch , which was composed especially for the television series Bosch produced by Amazon.com . In the second season of the series, Kelly played herself in a short scene with her song at the Catalina Jazz Club .

personal data
SURNAME	Kelly, Grace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chung, Grace (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet, flute, piano, drums, vocals) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wellesley

[1] ttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/grace-kelly-mn0001907418/biography Biography at allmusic.com

[all-2] Grace Kelly on Allmusic (English)

[NPR-3] Portrait at NPR - Piano Jazz (2008)

[4] This CD also contains the track Blues for Harry Bosch , which was composed especially for the television series Bosch produced by Amazon.com . In the second season of the series, Kelly played herself in a short scene with her song at the Catalina Jazz Club .