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Sheila Jordan & Cameron Brown at Soapbox Gallery

Courtesy of Soapbox Gallery | Posted on June 21, 2021

Where

Soapbox Gallery
636 Dean Street
New York, NY
Map
(516) 559-5099

Sheila Jordan & Cameron Brown at Soapbox Gallery

When

Thu, July 1, 2021
8:00 pm

Musicians

About

Thanks to her uncompromising approach, the singer and composer Sheila Jordan is greatly appreciated by the demanding audience, but also by the colleagues. Her first great influence was Charlie Parker, who said that she has a million-dollar worth ear, and, indeed, later on most of her influences were instrumentalists rather than singers. Legendary are her performances based on Parker’s solos. Working chiefly with black musicians, she met with disapproval from the white community but she has persisted in it and it affected her creative work. She particularly likes playing in a duo set with bass players...

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