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| Antoinette Montague in Sounds Good on Paper Antoinette Montague appears this Thursday night November 4 at 8PM in Sounds Good on Paper – A Musical Revue at the Aetna Theater at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut, 860-278-2670. The festivities begin at 5:00 PM at the museum's Phoenix After Hours. Antoinette Montague will be performing her repertoire of Jazz and Blues including songs from her CD Behind The Smile. There will also be tours of the America Moderns exhibition, Ink Passion: a dance performed by Lorelei Changa and company. Tickets are free with admission to Phoenix Art After Hours. Written and Directed by Clark Kee, Sounds Good On Paper – A Musical Revue features Antoinette Montague, Audrey Lavine, Colin McEnroe, Dianne Mower and others. Sounds Good On Paper is Our Town meets The Great American Songbook in this colorful, fast-paced revue celebrating the exhibition American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the of the first season of Japanalia Cafe Eiko. It's a wild "day trip" through an imaginary place with all too familiar characters, fabulous songs and a big laugh or two. Montague's Thursday night performance in Hartford follows right on the footsteps to her packed-house performances at the historic Lenox Lounge, last week's guest slot with Mike Longo's New York State of The Art Big Band celebrating Dizzy Gillespie's Birthday, and this past Saturday as the featured performer in the First of the Season Jazz Vespers Series in Newark. Montague will be singing standards from her new recording Behind The Smile, which features pianist Mulgrew Miller. Born and raised in Newark, Antoinette Montague was drawn to the music by her mother who was always singing and sounded like Ella Fitzgerald. Montague's interest was further jumpstarted by her dad. "On Saturdays my dad would drop me off at the Newark Public Library on his way to work. There I would listen to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington." Years later Montague met up with the renowned Etta Jones, who became her mentor. "She encouraged me when others were being uncool. She would say, 'I hear it Annie. It is coming along, and it's going to be wonderful. Not everybody wants you to sing like they did me. Keep doing it and don't quit, or I will come back and haunt you.'" Montague released her first CD, Pretty Blues, in 2006 featuring pianist Mulgrew Miller, saxophonist Bill Easley, drummer Kenny Washington, and bassist Peter Washington—the same group of influential jazz players featured on the new release Behind The Smile. Montague has appeared on the cover of Jazz Improv NY Magazine and on two book covers of Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret and Music. She has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Jazzmobile's Summer Breeze Concert Series, Zebra Room in Harlem's famous Lenox Lounge, the Blue Note, Jazz Standard and more. Antoinette's album, Behind The Smile features a diverse repertoire of standards and originals including "What's Going On, " "The Song Is You, " "Get Ready, " "Somewhere In The Night" as well the vocalist / composer's original title song "Behind The Smile". At the upcoming Jazz Vespers performance listeners get to hear Montague tap into her extensive repertoire and distinctive renditions of "What The World Needs Now, " "Creole Love Call, " "Rough and Ready Man, " "Let the Good Times Roll, " "God Bless the Child, " "On The Street Where You Live, " "Lady Be Good, " "I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart, " Duke Ellington's "I Didn't Know About You, " "East Of the Sun, " "I'll Be Seeing You, " "Swing It Brother Swing, " "Smack Dab In The Middle, " Mose Allison's, "If You've Got Questions Ask Me Nice", Stevie Wonder's, "Ribbon In the Sky and others. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Jazz News :: home page |