Jan Shapiro
Jan began her music studies at the Saint Louis Institute of Music and continued by earning her Bachelor’s degree, graduating Cum Laude from Howard University, Washington D.C. and completing a Masters degree from Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Her first major engagement at the Playboy Club in Saint Louis lasted more than six months–until she and her group went on the road, touring extensively. Subsequently she performed at the Camellia Room in the Drake Hotel, Chicago, the Hyatt Hotels in Washington D.C., and Atlanta, The Top of The Tower Club, New York City, Marriott Hotels in Florida, Washington D.C. and St. Louis, the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel, St.Louis, various Sheraton Hotels and Ramada Inns, and numerous hotels, supper clubs, and jazz clubs in Boston and the New England area.
Jan was the guest vocalist for the prestigious Boston Globe Jazz Festival in 1987 and in 1990, leading off the Festival in 1990.
As a musician, Jan has developed competence as a vocalist, flautist, electric bass, piano and keyboards as well as percussion. She is versatile in style, singing jazz, soft-rock, pop, blues, and ballads with equal elan.
As a songwriter, she has written and collaborated in writing some of the songs she performs. In addition, she composed the score of “Tales of Toyland”, a children’s production of Bob Kramer’s Marionettes of Saint Louis, which toured nationally.
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Album Review
- Piano Bar After Hours by C. Michael Bailey
- Piano Bar After Hours by Dan Bilawsky
March 25, 2013
"Piano Bar After Hours," 4th CD By Boston Vocalist Jan Shapiro, To Be...
February 14, 2013
Jazz This Week: Sachal Vasandani, Galactic, Kris Davis Quintet, Jan...
November 02, 2011
Jazz This Week: John Scofield Quartet, Dianne Reeves, Ahmad Jamal, Jan...
April 08, 2010
Jazz This Week: The Clayton Brothers, Cyrus Chestnut, Matt Wilson, Jan...
April 02, 2009
Jazz This Week: Bela Fleck and the Africa Project; a Tribute to Eddie...
March 13, 2007
Jan Shapiro, Singer & Berklee Vocal Chair, Releases New CD
March 12, 2007
Singer and Berklee Vocal Chair Jan Shapiro Releases New CD, "Back to...
Piano Bar... is a collection of eleven far-flung songs that Shapiro sings with her experience-informed soprano voice. Where Shapiro vamps a show tune style with Frank Loesser's A Slow Boat to China, slowly, perfectly supported by pianist Daniela Schachter, she makes Mark Winkler's lyrics sparkle on I Keep On Loving You. She is as effective singing Rickie Lee Jones' Company as she is scatting Horace Silver's fun Doodlin.' But where Shapiro proves her temper singing almost casually on Loesser's If I Were a Bell, where she turns the piece into an upbeat ballad with pianist John Harrison III bouncing right along
Primary Instrument
Voice / vocals
Location
Boston
Credentials/Background
Voice faculty , Berklee College of Music-1985-present Voice Dept. Chair , Berklee College of Music 1997-2010 contact Jan via email:[email protected], personal email—[email protected] or by going to www.janshapiro.com
Clinic/Workshop Information
Refer to Linkedin Vocal Jazz, solo vocalist ,..improvisation
Photos
Albums
On A Slow Boat To China
From: Piano Bar After HoursBy Jan Shapiro