Laurie Antonioli

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Laurie Antonioli (born March 9, 1958 in Marin County , California ) is an American jazz singer and songwriter who directs vocal training at the California Jazz Conservatory .

Live and act

Antonioli began playing the guitar at the age of 16 and performed his own music as well as the contemporary songwriting repertoire. In 1975 she won the American Songwriters Contest for high school students. She studied jazz at Mt. Hood College in Gresham, Oregon . After graduation she was a member of the last band of Pony Poindexter , with whom she toured extensively in North America, but also in Europe. After a first baby break, she recorded her first album, on which she was accompanied by George Cables ; In 1987 she was involved in Joe Bonner's album New Beginnings . After another career break, she moved to Austria, where she lived from 2002 to 2006 and taught at the University of Art in Graz . She released two albums for the Aachen label Nabel Records ; on Foreign Affair she dared to merge sounds from Serbia and Montenegro with jazz.

Antonioli then moved to Berkeley as a professor at the California Jazz Conservatory to lead the facility. There she developed a curriculum for vocal training. Since 2010 she has released albums again, first American Dreams , which received good reviews, then an album with songs by Joni Mitchell . She also worked with Bobby McFerrin , Richie Beirach , Joe Henderson , Johannes Enders ( Hotel Alba ), Fritz Pauer , Sheila Jordan and Mark Murphy .

Discographic notes

  • Laurie Antonioli Soul Eyes (Catero Records 1985, with George Cables)
  • Foreign Affair (Nabel Records 2004, with Johannes Enders, Armend Xhaferi, Nenad Vasilić , John Hollenbeck )
  • Richie Beirach & Laurie Antonioli The Duo Session (Nabel Records 2005; rec. 1992)
  • American Dreams (Intrinsic Music 2010)
  • Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: The Music of Joni Mitchell (Origin Records 2014)
  • Laurie Antonioli & Richie Beirach Varuna (Origin Records 2015, partly with Pepe Berns )
  • The Constant Passage of Time (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Laurie Antonioli: A Constellation in the West . All about jazz
  2. ↑ a b "Berkeley sings, Jazzschool is hub that makes it happen" ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Berkleyside @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berkeleyside.com
  3. ^ "Laurie Antonioli American Dreams" Jazz Times , October 2010
  4. ^ "Laurie Antonioli, Jazzschool's vocal director" . SF Gate , October 10, 2010.
  5. ^ Singer Laurie Antonioli pays tribute to Joni Mitchell . Mercury News September 25, 2014.
  6. ^ "Laurie Antonioli: American Dreams (2010)" . All about jazz
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  8. ^ "Laurie Antonioli: Foreign Affair (2004)" . All about jazz
  9. ^ Laurie Antonioli Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: The Music of Joni Mitchell . Jazz Times ,
personal data
SURNAME Antonioli, Laurie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Marin County , California