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Amanda Addleman

Amanda Addleman is a San Francisco-based vocalist, pianist, composer, arranger, and educator.

Addleman’s musical approach is one well-steeped in a reverence for the traditions of great jazz singers and instrumentalists of the last century. Yet her sound represents an informed departure from the tropes and fixations of earlier generations of improvisational musicians. In fusing the spirit of contemporary folk, rock, and pop composition and performance stylings, Addleman’s style blossoms with a freedom from genre restraint, while maintaining a consistent and cohesive sound that still maintains an obvious reverence for those who came before.

Addleman earned a B.M. at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, followed by continued studies with opera singer and vocal educator Lee Strawn, and renowned jazz vocalist and educator Tierney Sutton. In her own educational work, Addleman maintains a full private studio roster, heads the Sir Francis Drake High School vocal department, and teaches a regular schedule at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, CA. It is her mission to both share her perspective on the music through performance and to educate and expose musicians of all levels and backgrounds to the tradition, so that the art form may continue to evolve and thrive.

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NIMBY by Amanda Addleman

Read "NIMBY by Amanda Addleman" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Composer and pianist Amanda Addleman spent time working as an educator in her native Marin County, California so she is familiar with the problems minority students of that area have in dealing with racism and bullying from their peers. The irony of this is adults in that community vote for progressive causes and take a “not in my backyard" attitude toward the idea of such things happening where they live. She expresses all this musically through her composition “NIMBY."

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Amanda Addleman: Into the Light

Read "Into the Light" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


There are a lot of young singers around whose music draws equally from the fluidity of jazz and the confessional focus of the singer-songwriter genre. San Francisco's Amanda Addleman is one of those. This CD mixes personal original songs with standards and she delivers both with a deceptively light but powerful voice and understated passion. Her voice has a gauzy, high-flying quality that fits perfectly with her languid, easy-flowing music, rhythms built on electric piano and guitar that ...

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