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| "Women Composers of Queens" Queens, NY has a rich jazz tradition, but its jazz women have been less known. A concert on November 18 at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, will present works of Queens' women composer/ performers from Billie Holiday to Julie Mandel. The late pianist/composer Jutta Hipp, a Blue Note recording artist, has become the subject of much research; organist Sarah McLawler, enjoying over 50 years of travel and performance, played with violinist husband Richard Otto in a wild and eclectic duo all over Queens and Long Island; Emme Kemp is writer of the show Bubbling Brown Sugar (everyone knows the show, but how many know the composer?). These are just a few of the exceptional women of Queens whose works will be heard on Nov. 18 at the JCAL concert, where saxophonist Carol Sudhalter will lead a 10-piece band featuring vocalist Myrna Lake. Arrangements for the concert are by Bostonian composer Ray Loring , Amherst College-based award winning composer Eric Sawyer, Queens residents Chris Rinaman and Dotti Anita Taylor, and many more. Several of the featured women composers will be in attendance. Kemp will participate as pianist and vocalist in the debut performance of her lush and outstanding “First Awakenings” jazz ballet. Sudhalter founded and has led her Astoria Jazz Band since 1986. Her latest CD, “Shades of Carol”, was released in Rome in October on Alfa Records and RAI Trade. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |