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| Phoebe Legere Heats Up Cool Autumn Nights At Trumpets  Phoebe Legere (piano, voice, accordion) and Mike Richmond (bass) will be appearing together at Trumpets, Nov. 12th, Saturday Night. Trumpets is located at 6 Depot Square, Montclair, New Jersey. Phoebe Legere wowed audiences at Lincoln Center when she sang a blues mass in Latin scored for 80 pieces in April. Her Oh La La Quintet garnered rave reviews during a 6 month sold-out run on Broadway at the Iridium Jazz Club. In June she appeared at Resorts International in Atlantic City. Phoebe Legere recently returned from Europe where she starred in TV shows and played festivals for thousands. In August the versatile multi-lingual virtuoso starred in a movie in Paris.On Nov. 12th, Phoebe Legere will be teaming up with Grammy Award winner Mike Richmond (Miles Davis, Stan Getz) for a night of musical creativity and fun. She'll be singing originals from her new CD: "Hot Sicilian Pizza Boy" Good Stiff Cock Tail" "Crazy White Trash." "Craig's List Disaster" and "Texting in the Dark." Iman Labedi of RockNYC describes Phoebe Legere as "a master writer of startlingly beautiful, heroic" songs. Legere"plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four and a half octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing. " N.Y. Times "Legere weaves a magical, mystical, sensual spell with a beautiful voice that will take your breath away" N.Y. Post "Legere is an expressive and versatile singer whose voice ranges from a dark and earthy alto to a gorgeous dazzling high soprano.... she combines intelligent lyrics and a fusion of French musette, Cajun, pop, rock and jazz into a stew she calls, "roots alternative." - Washington Post "Multi-Talented Phoebe Legere will hit High C's at Avery Fisher Hall: From Low-Down Blues to Gloria in Excelsis Deo!" – Finanz Nachrichten write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Jazz News :: home page |