Michele Hendricks
Michele Hendricks (born September 27, 1953 in New York City ) is an American jazz singer , arranger and songwriter as well as teacher and author.
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Michele Hendricks comes from a musical family (she is the daughter of Vocalese singer Jon Hendricks ); As a child she sang in church choirs and accompanied her father to performances and tours from an early age. After studying dance and drama in London at Gradison College, she was a member of Jon Hendricks & Family . She also appeared on her father's Evolution of the Blues Show and since 1981 has been a member of Jon Hendricks & Company , one of the most important vocal ensembles of the 1980s and building on the work of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In 1984 she recorded with Paul Nash's Jazz Composer's Ensemble . In the mid-1980s she toured in the vocal quartet Vocal Summit (with Jay Clayton , Urszula Dudziak and Norma Winstone ; album Conference of the Birds ). From 1987 she recorded some albums for Muse Records , where she was accompanied by guest musicians such as Slide Hampton , Stan Getz , Ray Drummond , Claudio Roditi , Marvin Smitty Smith and James Williams . She also appeared with the quartet of George Adams and Don Pullen and at the Leverkusen Jazz Days in 1989 with Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers .
She later lived with her family in France, where she taught scat singing . In the 1990s, the album A Little Bit of Ella was released , on which Tommy Flanagan , Peter Washington , Lewis Nash , David Fathead Newman , Brian Lynch , Robin Eubanks and her father Jon Hendricks participated. She then appeared with Arthur Blythe and other musicians on a tribute concert tour for Dinah Washington ; in 2000 she worked with Adam Nussbaum and the Big Band de Lausanne ( Duke Ellingtons Sacred Music ). She is a member of the vocal ensemble Cantabile in Jazz
Hendricks has taught at the New School (New York City), New York University , the New Yorker Jazzmobile , the Center Polyphonique (Paris), and the Graz University of Music. She was artistic director of the Spoleto Vocal Jazz Workshop for eight years and is chair of the jury of the French Crest Jazz Vocal Competition . Michele Hendricks held a workshop as part of the Jazz Festival Munster (Haut-Rhin) 2009.
Michele Hendricks was also active as a songwriter and poet; she has worked with Count Basie , Wayne Shorter , Billy Hart , George Benson , Art Blakey , Red Rodney , Anthony Jackson , Al Jarreau , Bobby McFerrin and also with the band Manhattan Transfer throughout her career . She regards Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan as her main role models.
Discographic notes
- Carryin 'On (Muse, 1987)
- Keepin 'Me Satisfied (Muse, 1988)
- Me and My Shadoiw (Muse, 1990)
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- ↑ cf. Lee Ellen Marin Jon Hendricks, Father of Vocalese: A Toledo Story , pp. 63f.
- ↑ Cantabile in Jazz
- ^ Mission Voix Alsace
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hendricks, Michele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hendricks, Michelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer, arranger and songwriter as well as teacher and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |