Joanna Pascale

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Joanna Pascale (born February 25, 1979 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz singer who works part-time as a university teacher.

Life

Pascale grew up in Philadelphia. As the daughter of a strictly religious mother, she was not allowed to listen to secular music as a child. In her early teens, she heard about Billie Holiday's Good Morning Heartache , which gave her life a new direction. She discovered Sarah Vaughan , Nancy Wilson, and Jimmy Scott , and that her grandfather had been an amateur jazz musician. From then on she attended the Settlement Music School , later the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts . As a 15-year-old tenth grader, she took over the office of cantor in the Catholic St. Philip Neri Church , which she was responsible for for many years.

She graduated from Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in 2004 in Jazz Studies ; her teachers included Terell Stafford and Bruce Barth . Pascale stayed after graduating and has since worked part-time as a university professor and coordinator of jazz vocal studies.

Pascale performed three times a week with the house band at the Philadelphia jazz club Sole Food for around a decade. During this time she released three albums and expanded her repertoire to over 400 songs. She also toured with the Ed Vezinho / Jim Ward Big Band. She sang on Jeremy Pelt's album Soul (HighTone 2011) as well as Orrin Evans Orrin Evans Live All over The Place (2009).

Discography

- under your own name:

  • 2015: Wildflower , Album, Stiletto Records
  • 2010: Play the Great American Songbook (with Anthony Wonsey ), album, Stiletto Records
  • 2008: Through My Eyes , album, Stiletto Records
  • 2003: When Lights Are Low , Album, CAP

- as a sidewoman / guest musician:

  • 2013: Larry McKenna: From All Sides
  • 2012: Jeremy Pelt: Soul , HighNote Records
  • 2011: Temple University Jazz Band: To Thad With Love: A Tribute to Thad Jones , CD Baby

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Philly jazz vocalist Joanna Pascale on bringing her decade-long gig performing at Loews to a close tonight and tomorrow , thekey.xpn.org, October 31, 2013, accessed May 21, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Profile Joanna Pascale , All About Jazz, accessed May 21, 2015
  3. ↑ Boyer College of Music and Dance Faculty Staff , Temple University, accessed May 21, 2015
  4. ↑ Jazz Departments: The Philadelphia Jazz Scene , JazzTimes December 7, 2011, accessed May 21, 2015
  5. ↑ Ed Vezinho / Jim Ward Big Band featuring Joanna Pascale , South Jersey Jazz Societ, April 2015, accessed May 21, 2015
  6. ↑ Joanna Pascale with the Orrin Evans Trio , YouTube video from May 7, 2009
  7. ↑ Through My Eyes Review by Alex Henderson on Allmusic , accessed May 22, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Pascale, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania