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X-WR-CALNAME:RACHELLE FERRELL in New York City at Blue Note - Eventful
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SUMMARY:RACHELLE FERRELL
DESCRIPTION: FEATURING: Rachelle Ferrell\, vocals Other musicians\, TB
	A  Composer\, lyricist\, arranger\, musician and vocalist Rachelle Fer
	rell is a recent arrival on the contemporary jazz scene\, but her visi
	bility on the pop/urban contemporary scene has boosted her audience's 
	interest in her jazz recordings. Born and raised in Philadelphia\, Fer
	rell got started singing in the second grade at age six. This no doubt
	 contributed to the eventual development of her startling six-and-chan
	ge octave range. She decided early on\, after classical training on vi
	olin\, that she wanted to try to make her mark musically as an instrum
	entalist and songwriter. In her mid-teens\, her father bought her a pi
	ano with the provision that she learn to play to a professional level.
	 Within six months\, Ferrell had secured her first professional gig as
	 a pianist/singer. She began performing at 13 as a violinist\, and in 
	her mid-teens as a pianist and vocalist. At 18\, she enrolled in the B
	erklee College of Music in Boston to study composition and arranging\,
	 where her classmates included Branford Marsalis\, Kevin Eubanks\, Don
	ald Harrison and Jeff Watts. She graduated in a year and taught music 
	for awhile with Dizzy Gillespie for the New Jersey State Council on th
	e Arts. Through the 1980s and into the early '90s\, she'd worked with 
	some of the top names in jazz\, including Gillespie\, Quincy Jones\, G
	eorge Benson and George Duke. Ferrell's debut\, First Instrument\, was
	 released in 1990 in Japan only. Recorded with bassist Tyrone Brown\, 
	pianist Eddie Green and drummer Doug Nally\, an all-star cast of accom
	panists also leave their mark on her record. They include trumpeter Te
	rrence Blanchard\, pianists Gil Goldstein and Michel Petrucciani\, bas
	sists Kenny Davis and Stanley Clarke\, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter
	 and keyboardist Pete Levin. Her unique take on now-standards like Sam
	 Cooke's "You Send Me\," Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love
	\," and Rodgers & Hart's "My Funny Valentine\," captured the hearts an
	d souls of the Japanese jazz-buying public. In 1995\, Blue Note/Capito
	l released her Japanese debut for U.S. audiences\, and the response wa
	s similarly positive. Her 1992 self-titled U.S. debut\, a more urban p
	op/contemporary album\, was released on Capitol Records. Ferrell was s
	igned to a unique two-label contract\, recording pop and urban contemp
	orary for Capitol Records and jazz music for Blue Note Records. For fo
	ur consecutive years in the early '90s\, Ferrell put in festival stopp
	ing performances at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. Although Ferrell has 
	captured the jazz public's attention as a vocalist\, she continues to 
	compose and write songs on piano and violin. Ferrell's work ethic has 
	paid off\, and Gillespie's predictions about her becoming a "major for
	ce" in the jazz industry came true. Her prolific songwriting abilities
	 and ability to accompany herself on piano seem only to further her na
	tural talent as a vocalist. "Some people sing songs like they wear clo
	thing\, they put it on and take it off\," she explains in the biograph
	ical notes accompanying First Instrument. "But when one performs four 
	sets a night\, six nights a week\, that experience affords you the opp
	ortunity to present the song from the inside out\, to express its esse
	nce. In this way\, a singer expresses the song in the spirit in which 
	it was written. The songwriter translates emotion into words. The sing
	er's job is to translate the words back into emotion." Ferrell has mad
	e her mark not as a straightahead jazz singer and pianist\, but as a c
	rossover artist who's equally at home with urban contemporary pop\, go
	spel\, classical music and jazz. - AMG 
LOCATION:Blue Note @ New York, United States
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