Shawnn Monteiros Major Five Jazz Recordings
Shawnn Monteiro is a gifted vocalist with a four-ten years occupation as a singer with an international adhering to. She is also jazz royalty: her father is renowned bassist Jimmy Woode and Clark Terry is her godfather. She is a previous Adjunct Professor at the Hartt College of New music/Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, the College of Hartford, and Rhode Island College or university. Shawnns hottest recording is You Are There.
The initially song that influenced me was when I was five many years old, a recording by Sarah Vaughan known as Lullaby of Birdland, launched in 1954. My mom and dad owned the history, and I played it so a great deal. I realized it by heart and could scan the solo exactly like Sass. That was my first introduction to how jazz would have an impact on my existence.
The second recording was once again, Sarah Vaughan in 1959. It was a huge strike for her on the radio named Brokenhearted Melody and I imagine she crossed about for the initial time then. I was only eight, but there was one thing in Sarahs voice that spoke to me then and has through my entire career.
The third recording was when I experienced adequate allowance to go to the record keep and get an album named Nancy Wilson Stay at the Coconut Grove recorded in 1965 I heard music I experienced in no way read ahead of, and it was from the Excellent American Songbook. I played that file till I wore out and uncovered this kind of attractive gems as Guess Who I Observed Currently and You Can Have Him. Nancy was a completely various singer from Sarah, but then my ears have been starting off to open up, and I realized where my occupation was headed.
The fourth history that actually afflicted me was Tune for My Father by Horace Silver, and in 1965 I begun scatting to the recording, making an attempt to repeat the melody in the solos, and truly began to get me deep into the jazz vernacular. I can nevertheless sing/scat every track on that album.
The fifth album is Carmen McRaes Carmen Sings Monk unveiled in 1990. I assume it speaks for itself. By then I was performing and was thoroughly shocked by her. I discovered each solitary tune on that album and really got deep into McRaes job, which brought me the place I am nowadays. There are so a lot of additional albums, but I imagine these are the data that truly motivated my lifestyle and my vocation to this working day likely into 56 yrs of accomplishing. All those recordings have been the beginning and the rocket ship to send out me off into this terrific journey.
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Discography
Check out Me (Monad Records)
Shawnn Monteiro/Massimo Farao Trio (Azzurra Music)
Shawnn Monteiro with Clark Terry, One Distinctive Evening (Whaling Metropolis Seem)
Shawnn Monteiro Featuring the Massimo Farao Trio Im Comin Household (Are living In Italy)
(GOA Records)
To Carmen with Enjoy (Whaling Town Seem)
You Are There (Whaling Metropolis Audio)