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Jessica Molaskey
Jessica has premiered music written by Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, Michael John LaChiusa, and Stephen Sondheim and John Bucchino. She has written songs for almost a dozen recordings including “Greed”, part of a commission for Audra McDonald’s Seven Deadly Sins at Carnegie Hall and Cradle and all which will be part of Ms. McDonalds newest c.d. coming out in the fall.
Along with her husband John Pizzarelli, Jessica hosts a weekly national radio program called Radio Deluxe.
Other recordings include Fine and Dandy, Myths And Hymns, Parade, Songs For a New World, Weird Romance, Chess, Oklahoma!, Windflowers: The Music of Jerome Moross, Fred Hersch’s CD Two Hands, Ten Voices, It's only Life. The songs of John Bucchino and the upcoming cast album of Dream True by Tina Landau and Ricky Ian Gordon.
Jessica grew up in Wolcott, Connecticut. She is married to jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli, and they have a daughter, Madeleine.
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Jessica Molaskey: Sitting in Limbo
by Michael P. Gladstone
Singer Jessica Molaskey's fourth album, Sitting in Limbo, has been well received. She is guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli's wife, and together they have won the New York City Nightlife Award for “Best Musical Duo" in both 2007 and 2008.
Molaskey is a very polished vocalist whose specialty is Broadway musicals, currently appearing in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, which opened in Manhattan in February, 2008. Her jazz credentials are enhanced by ...
read moreJessica Molaskey: Pentimento
by Craig W. Hurst
With the seemingly steady rise of interest in traditional American popular song, the result has been a treasure trove of CD reissues, a Renaissance of careers of more seasoned veteran performers, and the appearance of many new singers who draw upon the repertoire and inspiration of the Great American Songbook. Along with the work of veterans such as Weslia Whitfield, the recently late Rosemary Clooney, and relative newcomers such as Stacey Kent, another traditional pop songstress has arrived. ...
read moreJessica Molaskey: Joni Mitchell
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you're a jazz singer who's going to take on a Joni Mitchell tribute album, you had better know what you're doing. To pull it off, you need a keen understanding of Joni's outlook on life and what makes her sophisticated music tick. As a singer, you must sound enough like her to stir the juices of her fans, but you can't simply mimic her recordings. You have to take Joni's music to another place without losing her fingerprints. Walking ...
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A Swell Double-Date with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey
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Michael Ricci
They're sort of the George Burns-Gracie Allen of music, but with a gender switch from that late, revered comedy couple. Guitarist and crooner John Pizzarelli is the zany Gracie of this pair. And his singer-actress wife, Jessica Molaskey, plays the calm, droll George Burns role to perfection in their act. Together, they make a charming twosome, musically and otherwise, at Jazz Alley, where the couple continues a four-night stand through Sunday. During Thursday's highly satisfying opening show, the fleet-fingered instrumentalist ...
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The Carlyle Presents John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey
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All About Jazz
The Carlyle Hotel (James McBride, Managing Director) welcomes the return of John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey, the gifted husband-and-wife team, as they open the fall entertainment season in the legendary Caf Carlyle. Beginning Tuesday, September 9th and playing through Saturday, November 1st, Mr. & Mrs. Pizzarelli, who made their debut engagement in May 2007, will once again grace the stage to present an entertaining evening of romantic ballads and swinging jazz tunes, including songs from each of their latest recordings: ...
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"...formidable talent, impeccable taste and acute wit" --New York Times
"Molaskey Among 2007 Nightlife Award Winners" --Playbill.com
"Q&A with Nightlife Award Winner Jessica Molaskey" --Broadway World
"Quality Time" at Feinsteins --New York Times
"Finally a show with Standards" --Los Angeles Times review of Radio Deluxe
"wonderful new cabaret show at the Oak Room" --New York Times
"exceptionally talented singer" --Variety
"extraordinarily gifted" --Town & Country, June 2006
