June 6, 2009 8:00 P.M.
with
Dan Zemelman - piano
Peter Barshay - bass
Rob Ewing - drums
Sheldon Brown - saxophone
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Event @ 8:00 PM
$12
The Jazzschool
2087 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA
510-845-5373
About Andrea Claburn
A pianist at age six, violinist at age eight, and singer since she could squeeze air through her vocal chords, Andrea Damesyn Claburn has always been surrounded by music. “My Dad was a huge fan of Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Frank Sinatra, so you could pretty much count on one of their LPs being somewhere near the turntable. My mom was a gifted classical pianist, and some of my earliest memories are of her playing Chopin waltzes while I twirled around the living room in a tutu. I was about four years old and just dying to play piano." By age six Andrea was playing entire pieces by ear while pretending to read music (so as not to anger her very stern piano teacher). She would spend two years playing increasingly difficult pieces by ear before finally learning to read music at age eight. “That early ear training turned out to be of critical importance when I started singing jazz, although I had no idea it was a good thing at the time – I just didn’t want my teacher to thwack my knuckles with her ruler. Fear is a great motivator."
After years of scales and arpeggios, Mozart and Telemann and Scriabin, private recitals, chamber string orchestra and madrigal choir, Andrea’s love of jazz finally took over, and she has never looked back. She immersed herself in the music of great jazz instrumentalists and vocalists, from Diz and Bird to “Sassy" and Ella and Carmen and Dee Dee. “There’s nothing like hearing a great jazz groove start up – it’s electric." Andrea studied vocal technique with Raz Kennedy, rhythm with Frank Martin, song interpretation with Ledisi, jazz theory and improvisation with Suzanne Pittson, performance with Maye Cavallaro, gradually building her jazz vocabulary and chops to where they are today. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to learn from some superbly gifted pros. The Bay Area is full of great jazz musicians, and I have benefited enormously from their generosity of spirit."
“Music has always been my heart and soul. No matter what else I have done in my life, music has always been my center – it moves me like nothing else. My desire in singing jazz is to move others in the same way and spread the pure pleasure of this music."
with
Dan Zemelman - piano
Peter Barshay - bass
Rob Ewing - drums
Sheldon Brown - saxophone
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Event @ 8:00 PM
$12
The Jazzschool
2087 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA
510-845-5373
About Andrea Claburn
A pianist at age six, violinist at age eight, and singer since she could squeeze air through her vocal chords, Andrea Damesyn Claburn has always been surrounded by music. “My Dad was a huge fan of Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Frank Sinatra, so you could pretty much count on one of their LPs being somewhere near the turntable. My mom was a gifted classical pianist, and some of my earliest memories are of her playing Chopin waltzes while I twirled around the living room in a tutu. I was about four years old and just dying to play piano." By age six Andrea was playing entire pieces by ear while pretending to read music (so as not to anger her very stern piano teacher). She would spend two years playing increasingly difficult pieces by ear before finally learning to read music at age eight. “That early ear training turned out to be of critical importance when I started singing jazz, although I had no idea it was a good thing at the time – I just didn’t want my teacher to thwack my knuckles with her ruler. Fear is a great motivator."
After years of scales and arpeggios, Mozart and Telemann and Scriabin, private recitals, chamber string orchestra and madrigal choir, Andrea’s love of jazz finally took over, and she has never looked back. She immersed herself in the music of great jazz instrumentalists and vocalists, from Diz and Bird to “Sassy" and Ella and Carmen and Dee Dee. “There’s nothing like hearing a great jazz groove start up – it’s electric." Andrea studied vocal technique with Raz Kennedy, rhythm with Frank Martin, song interpretation with Ledisi, jazz theory and improvisation with Suzanne Pittson, performance with Maye Cavallaro, gradually building her jazz vocabulary and chops to where they are today. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to learn from some superbly gifted pros. The Bay Area is full of great jazz musicians, and I have benefited enormously from their generosity of spirit."
“Music has always been my heart and soul. No matter what else I have done in my life, music has always been my center – it moves me like nothing else. My desire in singing jazz is to move others in the same way and spread the pure pleasure of this music."
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