Sara Gazarek

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Sara Gazarek (2008)

Sara Gazarek (born February 26, 1982 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American jazz singer . The critic Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times considers them "the next important jazz singer."

Live and act

Gazarek first discovered jazz at Roosevelt High School in Seattle . While still at school, she received the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation Outstanding Jazz Vocalist Award . In 2000 she moved to Los Angeles , where she attended the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California . In 2003 she won the Downbeat Student Music Award for best singer on the college scene. As part of the Concord Jazz Festival on Tour , she performed across the US with Oleta Adams , Karrin Allyson and Diane Schuur .

Produced by John Clayton , Gazarek released her debut album, Yours, in 2005 . This received good reviews and reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Charts ; in France and Germany it was the top album download on iTunes in the jazz segment . The readers of JazzTimes voted her among the best young jazz musicians. Her second studio album, Return To You , was released in 2007. She also recorded with the German band Triosence ( Where Time Stands Still ). She also performs as a duo with her pianist Josh Nelson .

Gazarek lives and works in Los Angeles. She has been teaching at the University of Southern California since 2014.

Discographic notes

  • Yours (Native Language, 2005, with Josh Nelson, Erik Kertes, Matt Slocum)
  • Live at the Jazz Bakery (Native Language, 2006, with Josh Nelson, Erik Kertes, Matt Slocum and Katisse Buckingham)
  • Return to You (Sail, 2007, with Josh Nelson, Erik Kertes, Matt Slocum, and Ambrose Akinmusire , John Proulx, Seamus Blake )
  • Blossom & Bee ( Palmetto Records , 2012, with Josh Nelson, Hamilton Price, Zach Harmon, and John Pizzarelli and Larry Goldings )
  • Dream in the Blue (Steel Bird Music, 2016), with Josh Nelson
  • Thirsty Ghost (2019)

Web links

Commons : Sara Gazarek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see website
  2. ↑ Welcoming Home Sara Gazarek , Info from Seattler Jazzradios jazz24.org from July 23, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c Sara Gazarek (Biography) . William Morris Agency (archived). Archived from the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved on February 22, 2016.
  4. ^ Don Heckman, concert review March 2015
  5. ^ Sara Gazarek and Josh Nelson at Jazz at Kitano , concert review in All About Jazz, April 19, 2014, accessed August 29, 2015
  6. ↑ Info Sara Gazarek USC Thornton School of Music
personal data
SURNAME Gazarek, Sara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington (State) , United States