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Charenee Wade

First Runner-Up in the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition, Charenee Wade is a notable singer, composer, arranger and educator who received her degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Her accolades include Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Program where she performed her original music at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; being one of the talented four chosen for the Dianne Reeves Young Artist Workshop at Carnegie Hall; 1st Runner-Up in the Jazzmobile Vocal Competition; and being selected for the JAS Academy Summer Sessions, 2007-09, directed by Christian McBride.

Charenee is currently a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music, City College, and with the Jazzmobile Workshop program. She teaches various workshops and clinics and was an esteemed judge for the 2010 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition, alongside Dr. Billy Taylor and Grady Tate. Charenee performs internationally and graces the stages of the Jazz Gallery, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy Coca Cola's, the legendary Smalls and the Zinc Bar in NYC. Her debut CD, Love Walked In was released in July 2010.

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Charenee Wade: Offering - The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson

Read "Offering - The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson" reviewed by James Nadal


As it often happens with many artists so in tune with the times that they are actually ahead of their time, the immense contribution of musical/cultural revolutionary Gil Scott-Heron continues to be revealed and acknowledged. Albeit, there has been a perpetual cult surrounding this enigmatic figure which defied any sort of categorization both in music and personality, but judging by the posthumous releases of his catalog and continuing tributes, his legacy has taken on the iconic qualities it deserves. His ...

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Suresh Singaratnam: Lost in New York

Read "Lost in New York" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The breathtaking narrative of Lost in New York is couched in an abstract interplay between performers and their instruments, as they describe what must have been a most challenging newcomer's journey to that often forbidding city. Trumpeter Suresh Singaratnam's high-wire act documents every nuance with some of the most rarefied excursions to emerge from a horn. An astute observer of his own life and those around him, Singaratnam allows the angst of being, and observing, to permeate the heated rush ...

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Suresh Singaratnam: Lost In New York

Read "Lost In New York" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Born in Zambia but brought up in Toronto, Canada, trumpeter Suresh Singaratnam is formally trained in both jazz and classical music, latterly at the Manhattan School of Music. Lost In New York is an album of original compositions that chronicles the young musician's early years in the city. It's a mix of experiences and emotions that are reflected in the tunes, which are divided into three groups of three to reflect the major changes in those early years.

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Suresh Singaratnam: Lost in New York

Read "Lost in New York" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


International in residency, Suresh Singaratnam is also multi-faceted when it comes to his music. Lost in New York, his third release, is an amalgamation of sound. Born in Zambia, Singaratnam has also lived in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. He revealed a hint of his eclectic interest when, as an eighth-grade student, he asked a music teacher if she knew any trumpet player who played both jazz and classical music at a high level. The ...

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Suresh Singaratnam: Lost in New York

Read "Lost in New York" reviewed by John Barron


New York-based trumpeter/composer Suresh Singaratnam makes his debut as a leader with Lost in New York, a well-conceptualized set of original progressive jazz. A recent graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, the Toronto native explores a musical landscape as diverse as his adopted New York home, toying with syncopated ostinatos, extended vamps, layered rhythms and straight-up bebop. Singaratnam is an agile improviser with strong technique who can manage his way through an up-tempo blues like “M104" and ...

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Jazz Treasures, 10/17: Honorees Randy Weston, Charenee Wade, Robert O'Meally

Jazz Treasures, 10/17: Honorees Randy Weston, Charenee Wade, Robert O'Meally

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

LIVING JAZZ LEGEND RANDY WESTON TO BE HONORED! Honorary Co-Chairs Marty Markowitz, Danny Simmons And Others To Honor Renowned Pianist And Composer. “When Randy Weston plays / a combination of strength and gentleness / virility and velvet emerges from the keys in an ebb and flow of sound / seemingly as natural as the waves of the sea." —Langston Hughes BROOKLYN, NY: TRANSART, Inc. announced today that its annual Jazz Treasures program will take place on Monday, October 17, 2011 ...

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