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Christine Rosholt

Christine Rosholt represents a fresh voice in jazz standards in the Twin Cities. She brings two decades of performance experience to the stage, with roots going back to the Children’s Theater Company and including a variety of types of public performance ranging from original performance art pieces to traditional theater to singing in a variety of groups. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago majoring in Performance Art and Photography. Her career as a jazz vocalist began in October of 2002. She currently works with many of the best jazz musicians in the Twin Cities in a variety of venues. She has held a weekly Wednesday night gig at Café Havana since October of 2003. Christine is also the featured vocalist in Beasley's Big Band. In the spring of 2005 Christine joined the Jazz Vocal Coalition, an organization dedicated to jazz singing with chapters in New York, Los Angeles and the Twin Cities.

Major inspirations include Anita O’Day, Annie Ross, Blossom Dearie, Carmen McRae, Chris Connor, Connie Evingson, Diana Krall, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Jane Monheit, John Pizzarelli, Joni Mitchell, June Christy, Karrin Allyson, Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughan, Stacy Kent, Susannah McCorkle, Tierney Sutton, The Roches. Christine says: "I especially like the Jazz standards from the 1930s and 40s because they’re timeless, they swing, and they’re sentimental without being syrupy."

On January 14, 2007 Christine will present a concert as part of the Twin City Jazz Society Jazz From J to Z concert series: My Shining Hour - A Tribute to the Music of Harold Arlen with Christine Rosholt, Connie Olson & Bruce A. Henry at the Bloomington Art Center with musicians, Risk Carlson, Keith Boyles and Jay Epstein. Harold Arlen wrote many classic jazz standards including, Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive, Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, Over the Rainbow (and all of the other songs in the Wizard of Oz), Stormy Weather, My Shining Hour, Let's Fall in Love....and many more.

In February of 2006 Rosholt released a brand new CD entitled "Detour Ahead" at Rossi's Blue Star Jazz Room in Minneapolis, the show was sold out. Detour Ahead is playing on the airwaves across the USA, Canada, Australia and some European countries. Based on Ms. Rosholt's previously released demo CD (2003), her airplay and name recognition in the Twin Cities, fans are requesting the Detour Ahead in Twin Cities record stores. In September 2006 Detour Ahead was nominated for Jazz Recording of the year in the Minnesota Music Awards.

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Album Review

Christine Rosholt: Detour Ahead

Read "Detour Ahead" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Twin Cities-based vocalist Christine Rosholt comes from a theater background, but her debut CD, Detour Ahead, shows that she can take a side road and turn it into a very appealing main thoroughfare. The set's atmosphere is elegant and a bit sassy, with Rosholt--in front of a crack band that really knows how to swing--displaying sharp articulation and a clear, clean tone from the Ella Fitzgerald school of jazz vocals.The set opens with style on the familiar standard ...

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Christine Rosholt: Detour Ahead

Read "Detour Ahead" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


There is a lot to like about vocalist Christine Rosholt, who's based in Minnesota's Twin Cities region. On her debut album, she displays a good jazz sensibility on thirteen time-tested tunes.The album begins promisingly with an easygoing “East of the Sun" and continues with the rarely heard Johnny Mercer lyrics to Woody Herman/Ralph Burns' “Early Autumn." One of the highlights of this session is a presentation of the first-wave bossa Jobim classic “Chega De Saudade (No More Blues)," ...

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Jazz Face: Christine Rosholt, RIP

Jazz Face: Christine Rosholt, RIP

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter

I first heard Christine Rosholt sing at the Dakota, maybe in 2004. She had a sincere perkiness that was contagious and carried over into her renditions of great tunes from the 30s and 40s. She was just at the beginning of her singing career, and her voice was still finding its mark. But she already knew how to draw in an audience to hear her stories, well prepared from her education at the Children's Theater and as a performance art/photography ...

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Christine Rosholt Reveals Her Style and Pizzazz at Rossi's Blue Star in Minnesota

Christine Rosholt Reveals Her Style and Pizzazz at Rossi's Blue Star in Minnesota

Source: All About Jazz

CD RELEASE PARTY AT ROSSI'S BLUE STAR Christine Rosholt Reveals Her Style and Pizzazz

GOING FOR ARTIST PREVIEW/CD REVIEW DEBUT RELEASE: Detour Ahead Vocalist Christine Rosholt, will be releasing her long awaited debut CD Detour Ahead on Friday, February 3, 2006 at Rossi's Blue Star. It took a while for Christine Rosholt to find her way into the recording studio. Finally, her years in theater yielded to her passion for song, leading her away from the ...

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