DOWN FROM NEW YORK FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY AT THE OCTAGON ARTS CENTER, 2470 NURSERY ROAD, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA (STADIUM SEATING) AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH THE FABULOUS LAUREN HOOKER SATURDAY, February 21, 2015 MIX AND MINGLE AT 7:30 pm - Performance @ 8:00 pm FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 727-531-3172 - TICKETS ARE $15.00 Critically acclaimed and award winning NYC based recording and performing artist LAUREN HOOKER, helps to continue the tradition of innovative jazz performance. Awarded Honorable Mention as one of AllAboutJazz-NYs selected Best Vocal CDs in ‘07 for her debut CD: “Right Where I Belong”, she is also included in Royal Stokes’ List of Best Jazz Vocal CDs of ‘10 for “Life of the Music” (Miles High Records), which includes mostly original material, in addition to winning a Jazz Twirlie Award in ‘11 for Jazz Vocals. Critics from across the nation and abroad have likened her favorably to Dianne Reeves, Nancy Wilson, Anita O’Day, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington, but with a style uniquely her own and “a voice with its own distinctive character” (AllAboutJazzUK). Her third Cd “All For You - My Heart and Soul” was just released this Fall featuring more of her original compositions. Ms. Hooker appears regularly as a solo pianist/vocalist, as well as a singer leading her own quartet. She has been featured on a number of television shows including NJN Public Television’s State of the Arts: “Abstractions in Music, Art and Theater” filmed live at the Cape May Jazz Festival and on BCAT Brooklyn Sings, Brooklyn Swings Series shown throughout Manhattan’s five boroughs. She has been featured on numerous radio stations across the country and abroad and has performed and/or recorded with some of the best in the business including Rufus Reid, Allen Farnham, Mike Richmond, Vic Juris, Bucky Pizzarelli, Reggie Workman and Billy Holiday’s former pianist, Mal Waldron. She has appeared in many NYC venues including The Jolly Madison Hotel, Smoke Jazz Club, Barry Harris’ Jazz Cultural Theatre, The International Women in Jazz Festival, Greenwich Village Jazz Festival, The 55 Bar, The West End Café, Sweetwaters and St. Peter’s Jazz Vespers. In NJ Ms. Hooker has appeared at The Cape May Jazz Festival, The Puffin Cultural Forum, Barron Art Center, Trumpets Jazz Club, Montclair’s Women in Jazz Festival and The Jazz Series at Two River Theater. Hooker’s arrangements of jazz standards and original compositions include lyricist credits to instrumental standards by Thelonius Monk, Fats Waller, Charles Mingus, Mal Waldron, Wayne Shorter and Vic Juris. (Jazz Times) states… “Hooker’s ability to add lyrics to instrumental classics is flat out masterful… as a craftswoman of original tunes she can hold her own against pretty much any singer-songwriter in the business”. Critics have embraced her as… “a musical renaissance woman, and an artist for all seasons to watch for in the coming years” (Jazz Inside Monthly) and Scott Yanow (Jazz Improv NY) states… “a skilled scatter, talented lyricist and songwriter…intriguing, impressive…” CD’S AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. FOR MORE INFORMATION: laurenhooker lhmusic01@gmail Office: 201-801-0527 cell: 201-887-7342
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