Rebecca Martin (jazz singer)

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Rebecca Martin

Rebecca Martin (born April 24, 1969 in Portland , Maine ) is an American folk and jazz singer and songwriter .

Career

Martin founded the formation Once Blue with Jesse Harris in the early 1990s and recorded a first album. In 1998 her solo album Thoroughfare was released . Her album Middlehope , released in 2002, was included in the New York Times list of their top ten jazz albums of the year; In 2004, People Behave Like Ballads followed on the Maxjazz label . In 2005 she worked on the album On Broadway, Vol. 4 or the Paradox of Continuity by Paul Motian . On the label Sunnyside Records appeared The Growing Season , which was produced by Kurt Rosenwinkel ; She was accompanied by Larry Grenadier , with whom she has been married since 1997 and has one child, and Brian Blade ; the album won the Independent Music Awards for Best Folk / Singer-Songwriter Album . She also runs the vocal trio Tillery (with Becca Stevens and Gretchen Parlato ) .

In addition to her musician career, Martin is the Executive Director of the Kingston Land Trust in the Hudson Valley. She has lived in Newburgh (New York) since 2002, where she works as a community activist.

Discography

  • 1995 Once Blue (EMI Records)
  • 1998 Thoroughfare
  • 2000 Middlehope ( Fresh Sound / New Talent )
  • 2004 People Behave Like Ballads (MAXJAZZ)
  • 2008 The Growing Season (Sunnyside)
  • 2010 When I Was Long Ago (Sunnyside)
  • 2017 Rebecca Martin & Guillermo Klein : The Upstate Project

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of The Growing Season in All About Jazz
  2. ↑ Review of The Growing Season in the New York Times
  3. ↑ Review of The Growing Season in All About Jazz
  4. ^ Information on Victory Gardens in Kingston, NY
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American folk and jazz singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Maine