Ken Norris (jazz musician)

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Kenneth "Ken" Norris (born September 13, 1967 in Shaker Heights , Ohio) is an American jazz musician ( vocals ).

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Norris comes from a family of musicians. From 1985 to 1990 he studied architecture at Yale University , 1997/98 music at the American School of Modern Music in Paris. There was also piano training with Aldridge Hansberry, Paula Gold and Benny Carson. In Paris, where he worked with the pianist Pierre Bertrand, he had a few dance floor hits in the 1990s . Norris presented his self-published CD Modern Folklore in 1996 at the Printemps de Bourges Festival .

In 1999 he was responsible for the musical direction and composition for the radio play What Light from Darkness Grows by Janine L. Carter in New York . (Received the Golden Reel Award in 2003). In 2000 he appeared as a soloist in the opera Le Regard de Lyncèe by François Ribac. As a singer in the musical Der König der Löwen he then moved to Hamburg, where he soon appeared as a soloist in the jazz area in the bands of Gabriel Coburger , Wolf Kerschek and Gottfried Böttger . a. at Jazzahead and Jazz Baltica . Since 2010 he has been professor for jazz singing at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

Discographic notes

  • Quintet Jean Paul: Bright Water (2015)
  • Stephan Abel Quintett featuring Ken Norris: Windmills of Your Mind (Agogo Records 2014)
  • Kento Su Nova with Charlie Mariano : Live in Osnabrück (FunAndMercy 2009)
  • Kento Su Nova: Nu Life , Mundart (2007, with Tobias Sudhoff , Gerard Kleijn, Uli Wentzlaff Eggebert, Joost Kesselaer)
  • Modern Folklore (1995)

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personal data
SURNAME Norris, Ken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norris, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Shaker Heights , Ohio