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Grace Kelly (musician)

American jazz musician

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Birth nameGrace Chung
Born () May 15, (age&#;32)
Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.
OriginBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, arranger, educator
Instrument(s)Saxophone, vocals, EWI
Years active–present
LabelsPAZZ Productions
Website

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Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15, )[1] interest an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger.

Clown has produced and released recordings of her unfurl, scored soundtracks, and tours with her band. She was named one of Glamour magazine's Top 10 College Women in ;[2] and she has anachronistic featured on [3] and on the NPR transistor shows Piano Jazz with both Marian McPartland beginning Jon Weber, as well as on WBGO'sJazzSet care Dee Dee Bridgewater.[4]

Working professionally since she was cool preteen, Kelly was dubbed a prodigy in illustriousness jazz world.[3][5][6][7] In , Kelly worked with nobility producer Stewart Levine on her EP, Working keep watch on the Dreamers, which was released in September annotation that year.[8]

She was featured in the December onslaught of Vanity Fair as a significant millennial scheduled the jazz world.[9] Kelly was named "Rising Getting – Alto Saxophone" in DownBeat's Critics Poll.[10] Round out Trying to Figure It Out ( PAZZ) come to somebody's aid was voted the number-two Jazz Album of position Year in the DownBeat readers' poll.[11]

Early life playing field education

Born Grace Chung in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Asiatic parents, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, when she was 2 years old.

She briefly played clarinet and classical piano before finding her voice describe the saxophone.[12] Kelly stated, "Saxophone reminds me ransack the human voice.

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Current I always felt this very compelling, this soft spot, that someone was singing to me. The Woman from Ipanema was on repeat in my abode when I was a little girl and thought: ‘I wanna learn this one day.’ It’s adjourn of the instruments that’s closest to expressing probity human voice.”[13][12]

Her mother remarried in to Robert Histrion, who legally adopted Grace a few years ulterior, thus changing her name to Grace Kelly.[1] Actress wrote her first song "On My Way Home" at age seven.[14] Kelly counts it a elder breakthrough in her career when singer/songwriter Fred Composer approached her after she sat in with choir member Ann Hampton Callaway at Sculler's.[15] He offered just now book her first headlining show at a higher ranking jazz venue.[15]

Kelly left Brookline High School at muse 16 and earned her GED.

After studying principal the Jazz Department of New England Conservatory believe Music's School of Preparatory Education, she enrolled calm Berklee College of Music, where she graduated access December with a Bachelor of Arts in planed music at age [16] Kelly studies or has studied saxophone with Jeremy Udden, James Merenda,[17]George Garzone, Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Jerry Bergonzi, and Allan Chase.[1]

Career

On March 15, , when she was unprejudiced 12, Kelly released her first CD, Dreaming.[18] Exhaustively in the recording stages, Kelly met Ann Jazzman Callaway, a jazz cabaret singer, who offered show consideration for write the liner notes to Kelly's first CD.[1] Grace won numerous ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Commendation.

Grace previously won the "Jazz Artist of rectitude Year" for the third time at the Beantown Music Awards'[19] she had won the same purse in and She was voted alto saxophonist funding the year by the NYC Jazz Fans Choose Award.[20]

Touring

In , she played with the Foxboro Tall School Jazz Ensemble and Dave Brubeck for justness "Let Freedom Swing/Celebration Of America" concert held classify the John F.

Kennedy Center for the The stage Arts.[21]

In , Kelly was selected by the Beantown Celtics to play the national anthem at significance TD Garden for preseason and play-off games.[22]

For authority Kennedy Center's 15th Annual Mary Lou Williams Corps in Jazz Festival, in , Kelly performed in the same way part of an all-star quintet of Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Esperanza Spalding for a set that celebrated the end anniversary of Mary Lou Williams's birth.[23]

In , Histrion was selected to perform at the 30th Annually NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony with Phil Woods contemporary Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Emotions Orchestra.[24]

Collaborations

At 15, Kelly and NEA jazz master Appreciate Konitz recorded the album, GRACEfulLEE.

The album gained a 4 1/2-star review from DownBeat.[25]

At 18, she released her sixth album, Man with the Hat, recorded as a collaboration with another NEA foofaraw master Phil Woods.[23] The title of the publication honors Woods, who has had a signature beat cap as his trademark since [26] The name of the album also refers to when Wilderness invited Kelly, when she was 14 years bracket, on stage during one of his performances vital presented her with his iconic leather cap owing to a gift after her solo on "I'll Recollect April".[27]

In , when she recorded Go Time: Borough 2, Kelly had Leo Pellegrino as a guest.[28] On November 30, , Pellegrino and Kelly proclaimed the official formation of a new "group, wonderful band a collaboration" called 2SAXY, which would comprise of a duet between Kelly on alto sax and Pellegrino on baritone saxophone.[29]

Charting

Kelly's single "Sweet Honeylike Baby", recorded for the Woodward Avenue Records earmark, reached number 7 on the Billboard Smooth Superfluity Singles chart.[30] The track was also included hinder the label's 9 Mile Road compilation.[31]

Film and television

Kelly is a featured performer in the documentary Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story, co-produced bypass author Michael Connelly and directed by N.C.

Heikin.[32] In the documentary, she performs "Somewhere Over glory Rainbow" as part of a tribute concert restricted in San Quentin State Prison, where Frank Financier was incarcerated at different times in his life.[33] The documentary had its world premiere at illustriousness Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14, [34] and was followed the next day by smart tribute concert at the Grammy Museum, featuring Dancer, George Cables, Ron Carter, Mark Gross, and Roy McCurdy.[32][35] The documentary was selected for multiple added film festivals, including the Hot Springs Documentary Pick up Festival,[36] the Maine International Film Festival,[37] the Colony Film Festival,[38] the Atlanta Film Festival,[39] the Fist Springs International Film Festival,[40] and the Vancouver Pandemic Film Festival.[41]

Kelly has performed many times with whistles musician Jon Batiste and his band Stay Living soul as the house band for the New Royalty City-based late night television show The Late Exhibit with Stephen Colbert as well as at in relation to New York City locations.[42][43][44]

Kelly released her tenth Maxisingle, Trying to Figure It Out, in ; ready to react includes the track "Blues For Harry Bosch", unornamented composition written for the produced television series Bosch.

In the second season, episode 2, of representation series, Kelly is featured, as herself,[45] performing "Blues For Harry Bosch" in a scene in improvement of main character Harry Bosch Titus Welliver present-day his Lieutenant Amy Aquino filmed at the Catalina Jazz Club.[46]

Kelly was Executive Producer and music founder of the short film The Bird Who Could Fly, directed by Raphael Sbarge, written by Parliamentarian Munic and Raphael Sbarge.

The film won miscellaneous awards in the "Asians on Film Festival show consideration for Shorts Fall Quarter".[47]

Charity work

In partnership with Berklee Institute of Music, Kelly established the Fred Taylor Learning Fund[48] by producing, emceeing, and performing at spoil all-star benefit concert[49] at the Berklee Performance Soul on September 12, , raising enough funds build up establish an endowed scholarship fund.[50]

Discography

As leader

  • Grace Kelly Check on Strings: "At The Movies" (PAZZ Productions/La Reserve); Politician Carter, Eli Bishop, Kyle Gordon[51]
  • Feels Like Home (Feat.

    Elliott Skinner) () single (PAZZ Productions); Julian Pour Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson

  • GO TiME: Live Speak LA () (PAZZ Productions); Feat. Sarah Reich, General Waterfall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • GO TiME: Borough 2 () (PAZZ Productions); Julian Waterfall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • GO TiME: Brooklyn () (PAZZ Productions); Julian Waterfall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • She's Position First () single (PAZZ Productions) written by Gracefulness Kelly and April Bender.
  • Trying To Figure It Out () (PAZZ Productions) Jon Batiste, Michael League (leader of Snarky Puppy), Mocean Worker, Shayna Steele, Speechifier Hey, Tim Lefebvre, Lemar Carter, Pete McCann, Run into Pederson, Jeff Babko, Steve Hass, and others.
  • Working Apply for The Dreamers () (PAZZ Productions); Sunny Levine, Emir Yaghmai, Gabriel Noel
  • "Sweet Sweet Baby" () (single) (PAZZ Productions); Alain Mallet, Mike Bono, Duke Levine, Sociologist Stewart, Eric Law, Gabe Smith, John Nellen, Vishall Nayak.

    The single reached #10 on Billboard Unruffled Jazz Singles Chart[30]

  • Live at Scullers () (PAZZ Productions); Pete McCann, Mark Walker, Jason Palmer, Zach Chromatic, Chantale Sterling, Jaime Woods, Eric Law
  • Grace () (Pazz Productions); George Russell Jr., Peter Clemente, Jamey Haddad
  • Man with the Hat () (PAZZ Productions); Phil Territory, Monty Alexander, Evan Gregor, Bill Goodwin, Jordan Perlson
  • Mood Changes () (PAZZ Productions); Terri Lyne Carrington, Jason Palmer, Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, with special new zealand Adam Rogers and Hal Crook
  • GRACEfulLEE () (PAZZ Productions); Lee Konitz, Russell Malone, Rufus Reid, Matt Wilson
  • Every Road I Walked () (PAZZ Productions); Terri Lyne Carrington, Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, and special customer Christian Scott
  • Times Too () (PAZZ Productions); Doug President, John Lockwood, Yoron Israel
  • Dreaming () (PAZZ Productions); Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, Jordan Perlson

With The Manhattan Transfer

  • The Junction () When asked about her personal deary song on the new CD, Bentyne said, "I love every single song because each song represents us as a whole.

    We all participated escort writing. So I will say, today 'Blues Insinuate Harry Bosch.' I heard this wild, wonderful; shaper player, Grace Kelly on YouTube and her tv for this piece was thrilling!"[52]

With Terri Lyne Carrington

  • The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul (Concord/Universal, )

Involve Vance Gilbert

  • BaD Dog Buffet (); Tom Eaton, Larry Luddecke, Kevin Barry, Grace Kelly, Richard Gates, Lorne Entress, Neal Eckstein, Joe Walsh, Darol Anger, Roy Sludge

With Bill Bandfield's Jazz Urbane

  • Playing With Other Peoples Heads: Songs (); Bill Banfield, Grace Kelly, Faith Scott, Greg Osby, Alex Han, Kevin Ross, Terri Lyne Carrington, Stokley Williams, George Duke, Annette Prince, Jessica Newry, Amelia Sophia Ali, Jesse Taitt, Madelyn Hawke, Lucia Paniker

With Bob Dorough

  • Duets (); featuring Creative York Voices, Nellie McKay, JD Walter, Heather Phone, Val Hawk, Craig Kastelnik, Janis Siegel, Donna Antonow, Grace Kelly, Vicki Doney, Nancy Reed

With Various Artists

  • A Tribute To Phil Woods () Recorded live compassion September 8, , as a guest soloist well ahead with Bob Dorough, Houston Person, Randy Brecker, Enzyme Rovatti with Phil Woods Quintet and Big Band.
  • Walkin’ & Swingin’ (); The Kennedy Center Women Distort Jazz Festival; Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Grace Kelly, Sherri Maricle & The Diva Jazz Orchestra, Virginia Mayhew, Anne Patterson's Maiden Voyage, Catherine Russell, Carmen Staaf
  • Collaboration be in keeping with The Fearless Flyers on their debut album Tailwinds () [53]

Film credits

  • The Bird Who Could Fly () Director: Raphael Sbarge, Writers: Robert Munic and Archangel Sbarge, Executive Producer: Grace Kelly, Composer: Grace Histrion [54]
  • Bosch (, Season 2 Episode 2) Director: Alex Zakrzewski, Writer: Joe Gonzalez
  • Starcrossed () Director: Chase Mohseni; starring Mischa Barton, Eric Roberts, Grant Harvey.

    Lilting contributions by Kelly.

  • Sound of Redemption: The Frank Pirate Story () Producer: James Egan; Director: NC Heikin documentary about alto saxophonist Frank Morgan (musician) added premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival in Provided that produced and script by best selling novelist Archangel Connelly.

    Interview and music performed by Kelly aboard Ron Carter, Ed Reed, George Cables, Delfeayo Marsalis, Marvin Smith, Mark Gross among others.

  • Delta Rising () Directors: Michael Afendakis, Laura Bernieri; a blues infotainment featuring Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman and others. Be of assistance by Kelly.
  • Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench () Director: Damien Chazelle.

    Musical contribution by Kelly.

  • Men in Green () Producers: John Ippolito, Laura Bernieri (also Director); a behind-the-scenes documentary with the legends of the Boston Celtics hosted by Satch Sanders. Film score composed and performed by Kelly.

Music videos

Awards

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