Karrin Allyson Trio in the Thomsen Club
Saturday, May 1st @ 5PM & 7:30PM | The Thomsen Club
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*The Sunset Lounge will open for seating 1 hour prior to show start time.
“There are so many ways to savor Karrin Allyson’s artistry. Start with her voice, its rare clarity and resonant timbre….Everything she sings seems to rise from a smile.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
“Allyson coolly stakes her claim. She brings a timbre that is part ice and part grain — incisive, original, and emotionally convincing.” – Gary Giddins, The Village Voice
Vocalist, pianist, and composer Karrin Allyson moves with ease and authority from the Great American Songbook of Gershwin and Porter to the Great American Jazz Songbook of Duke and Thelonius and Miles and Dizzy, jet-setting to Rio and Paris and swinging back home to pick up Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell and Jimmy Webb. What unites this wide world of music — brings it together and makes sense of it all — is Karrin Allyson’s warmth and depth. She’s not just singing a lyric, she’s telling you her story. And then that becomes your story. You hear the music from the inside out.
Karrin has just completed a new recording entitled “Just Passing Through”. The recording contains songs from her favorite female jazz composers and performers including Edith Piaf, Shirley Horn, and Bonnie Raitt. The recording also contains 4 songs composed by Karrin. The album releases on April 16; join us for her concert at Field Hall to celebrate the album release!
ABOUT KARRIN ALLYSON
“Since her debut with Concord Records, Karrin Allyson has won hearts and fans around the world for her intimate and powerful music making. A singer, pianist and songwriter with midwestern roots, Karrin signed a contract with Concord Records in 1992. Karrin’s association with Concord produced a series of thirteen top-rated records —five Grammy nominations among them. For ten years, she worked with her Kansas City based all-stars, touring all over the US as well as Europe, Japan and Brazil. In 2000, Karrin moved to New York City and continued to record with old friends and new, producing powerful recordings with Mulgrew Miller, Peter Washington, Steve Wilson, Gil Goldstein and Steve Nelson.” – Bob Doerschuk, Downbeat
Along with performing hundreds of concerts in Europe and Brazil, across the US and Canada, Karrin drew together the great duo of Kenny Barron and John Patitucci to join her in creating “Many A New Day,” a Grammy-nominated tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein, released on Motema Records. Throughout 2014 Allyson was featured as solo vocalist in the Newport —Now 60 Tour which played in thirty cities across the US and Canada before concluding the 2014 Newport Festival.
Among musicians, Karrin is known as a great bandleader and one of the deep pleasures of the current scene is listening to her highly developed interplay with her bandmates — it sounds so effortless — but it conceals a deep musical sophistication. It’s one of Allyson’s great achievements — the result of working over the years with an ensemble of fearless and powerfully committed jazz virtuosi. Karrin has also developed a unique relationship with the multi-talented L.A. composer Chris Caswell and the two have collaborated for nearly ten years as composers and performers in a very spirited ensemble featuring Caswell on Hammond B-3 organ. In fact, Karrin has been doing a lot of writing of late and promises an album of original songs in the near future.
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