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Jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan returns to Daytona Beach on Sunday, June 5

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Internationally acclaimed New Orleans' jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan will perform on Sunday, June 5, at the Daytona Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences for a return engagement.

“We had so many requests to bring her back again that we certainly couldn't refuse," said North East Florida Jazz Association President Muriel McCoy. “The audience absolutely loved her. We're thrilled that Stephanie was as eager to come back as we were to see and hear her performing live again."

Jordan's recent concert with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble at the Harris Theater where she was a late minute replace for four-time Grammy nominee Ledisi led Chicago Tribune's leading art critic Howard Reich to proclaim, “The woman can sing and indisputably knows how to reach out across the footlights . . . Jordan showed ample voice, bringing heft to music of the Gershwins and Cole Porter without pushing volume levels. Clearly she values plush sound and knows how to produce it."

A member of New Orleans' renowned Jordan Family of Jazz, Stephanie Jordan is consistently praised for her poise, elegance, and soulful articulation. She draws frequent comparisons to her mentor—the legendary jazz chanteuse Shirley Horn—as well as Abbey Lincoln, and Carmen McRae. Critics have also likened Ms. Jordan to jazz stars Diana Krall and Nancy Wilson.

She has performed around the globe on the same stages as Branford Marsalis, Jonathan Dubose, Roy Ayres, Yolanda Adams, Cassandra Wilson, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, and Norah Jones. She has appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in Jazz at Lincoln Center's nationally televised Higher Ground Hurricane Relief benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and she has been featured live on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

Ms. Jordan will be performing with the Doug Carn Quartet.

The Matanzas High School Jazz Orchestra will open from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. in the museum's Root Hall. The Stephanie Jordan concert will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the museum's auditorium. The Museum of Arts and Sciences is at 352 S. Nova Road, Daytona Beach.

Tickets for the concert are available on the website nefja.org or by calling Ms. McCoy at (386) 445-1329.

NEFJA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the perpetuation, performance, preservation, and promotion of jazz. In addition to bringing nationally and internationally known jazz performers to the local area, the group awards scholarships to talented young students enrolled in a jazz studies program at a Florida college or university.

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