Jazz singer Carol Sloane helps celebrate the great women of jazz this weekend during Edmonds’ Community College’s Jazz Festival.
Sloane is enjoying a well-deserved revival, her traditional jazz-vocalist approach in the Ella Fitzgerald style an example of quality, not flash, leading to a long career.
She’ll be joined by about 40 student jazz choirs sharing their music at the 30th annual festival, celebrating the work of Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Peggy Lee.
Sloane, who like so many great jazz singers started out in the clubs, survived the rigors of road tours while honing her craft and working as a secretary. At one point she had given up the career, but a friend’s request to use her voice to help open a supper club created a new chapter.
Now her credits include singing at the Newport Jazz Festival, performing with the Boston Pops and New York Pops orchestras, hosting jazz radio shows and creating 10 albums.
Ronnie Milsap: Forty No. 1 hits, six Grammys, eight Country Music Awards, three Academy of Country Music Awards, six Billboard awards and four Cashbox awards later, the country singer is still bringing his signature sound to audiences. He’ll perform Sunday in Bow. Think “Pure Love,” “(I’d Be) A Legend in My Time,” and “No Getting’ Over Me.”
South End String Band: It’s billed as old-time fiddle music with a politically incorrect attitude. The band, now recording its second CD, performs Saturday in Langley. Expect mountain bluegrass and front-porch swing music.
Jazz Tribute to Sinatra: Bebop-era pianist Hank Jones and vocalist Betsyann Faiella offer musical praise for Sinatra, Thursday through March 13 in Seattle. The International Jazz Hall of Famer who helped define the Detroit Piano School continues to perform worldwide.
Concord Jazz Festival: Jazz singers Diane Schuur, Oleta Adams, Karrin Allyson and newcomer Sara Gazarek gather Thursday in Seattle. Schuur has earned two Grammy Awards; three-time Grammy nominee Adams had a top-10 hit with “Get Here.” Gazarek received the 2003 Down Beat Student Music Award for Best Collegiate Jazz Vocalist. Grammy nominee Allyson hosts the evening.
Ronnie Milsap performs Sunday in Bow.
Where to hear it
Jazz Festival: Carol Sloane (Soundsations opening) performs 8 p.m. today and Saturday, Triton Union Building 202, Edmonds Community College, 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood; $18; 425-640-1313. Student bands perform 8 a.m.-5:45 p.m., same location, free.
Ronnie Milsap: 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, The Skagit, I-5, exit 26, Bow; $35; 877-275-2448.
Jazz Tribute to Sinatra: Various times Thursday through March 13, Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., Seattle; $19.50, $21.50; 206-628-0888.
Concord Jazz Festival: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Paramount, 911 Pine St., Seattle; $25-45; 206-628-0888.
Where to hear it
Jazz Festival: Carol Sloane (Soundsations opening) performs 8 p.m. today and Saturday, Triton Union Building 202, Edmonds Community College, 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood; $18; 425-640-1313. Student bands perform 8 a.m.-5:45 p.m., same location, free.
Ronnie Milsap: 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, The Skagit, I-5, exit 26, Bow; $35; 877-275-2448.
Jazz Tribute to Sinatra: Various times Thursday through March 13, Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., Seattle; $19.50, $21.50; 206-628-0888.
Concord Jazz Festival: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Paramount, 911 Pine St., Seattle; $25-45; 206-628-0888.
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