Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Metropolitan Room at Gotham
34 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
(Between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Reservations Suggested (212) 206-0400
one show at 9:00 PM
$20 music charge
Martha Lorin Jazz Quartet
with
Pianist Barry Levitt
Bassist Don Miller
Drummer Brian Grice
CDs available
Growing up in Pueblo, Colorado, Martha Lorin was raised to be a singer. She received her early training from her grandmother, Sarah Dalton, who was a highly noted popular singer of her day, and also from her mother, pianist/singer/songwriter Margaret Dalton.
Martha met her mentor, pianist Shelly Robin, at her first club gig at Enrico Banducci's acclaimed Hungry Eye in San Francisco. The tragic loss of her husband, Capt. Bruce Walker, (shot down in Viet Nam and still listed under MIA status) pushed Martha, with their one-year-old baby girl, to leave home and move to Germany where they lived for two years.
Martha returned to complete college then on to San Francisco to begin her singing career. Henry Lewy, Joni Mitchell's sound engineer, co- produced her first solo album, The Best Is Yet To Come. Shortly thereafter, Martha and her daughter moved to Los Angeles where she collaborated as a lyricist with pianist/songwriter Frank Collett. John S. Wilson, of the New York Times said: “Her lyrics, with music by Frank Collett, stand up well in the company of such established gems as Strayhorn's 'Day Dream'" and 'Easy Living' by Ralph Ranger/ Leo Robbins."
After living several years in New York City, Martha moved to Milford, PA, where she was asked to take on directorship and to develop concept for the Annual Milford Music Festival. The 2004 festival featured numerous fine and musically varied groups & the main stage heard performances from Bill Mays, Jerry Vivino, Nestor Torres and The Harlem Baptist Gospel Choir, Martha graciously agreed to take a break from her directing duties and sing a couple of tunes with the Russ Kassoff (Martha's partner in the Blues Over Broadway CD) Big Band. The festival is still going strong.
Martha's new September release is Don't Slam That Door.
For more information contact Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services.
