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Dominique Eade

Dominique Eade's voice is agile and versatile, perfectly suiting her formidable improvisational skills. A fierce interpreter of standards, Dominique is also a composer and lyricist, and has taught vocalists and instrumentalists at her alma mater, New England Conservatory, for twenty two years.

Eade has been a featured vocalist and composer in the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Jazz in Toulon Festival in France, the Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway, the What Is Jazz? Festival in New York, and the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and an artist-in-residence, clinician, and performer at the Wichita and Litchfield jazz festivals. Eade performs regularly in the U.S. and Europe.

A frequent nominee for Outstanding Jazz Vocalist in the Boston Music Awards since 1988, and the 1997 and 1999 winner in this category, Eade was also designated "Best Jazz Singer" in Entertainment Weekly's Regional Raves in 1997 and nominated for best new artist by the First Annual Jazz Awards (New York) in 1998. She was recognized in the 1998 Down Beat critics poll as "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition."

Her debut CD on RCA Victor, "When the Wind Was Cool," appeared in 1998 Top Ten lists in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, and in Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines; her second RCA Victor CD, "The Long Way Home," was released in 1999, with contributions by Dave Holland, Victor Lewis, Mick Goodrick, and Bruce Barth. Her earlier CD, "My Resistance Is Low," was voted one of the Top Ten Jazz CDs of 1995 by Billboard. Her highly-acclaimed first recording, "The Ruby and the Pearl" was released in 1990 on Accurate Records.

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In Pictures

Dominique Eade with the John Toomey Trio at the Attucks Jazz Club

Read "Dominique Eade with the John Toomey Trio at the Attucks Jazz Club" reviewed by Mark Robbins


Dominique Eade has been teaching at The New England Conservatory for over 30 years. Her students have included Roberta Gambarini, Michael Mayo and Aoife O'Donovan. Well known in jazz circles for her scatting, improvising, delivery, Eade is neither showy nor pretentious. She is more concerned with the music and the story than with the small vocal rough spots that may pop up occasionally. No vibrato, no stretching out a simple word into six syllables, she presents the composition in a ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Jazz From Movie and TV Music

Read "Jazz From Movie and TV Music" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show features jazz versions of movie and television music, both soundtrack themes and songs that originated in movies. Musicians heard on the show include Dominique Eade, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Bing Crosby, Marty Krystall, and Eri Yamamoto. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Chien Chien Lu “Mo' Better Blues" from The Path (Self-Produced) 1:03 Marty Krystall Quartet “Theme ...

Album Review

Dominique Eade: Town and Country

Read "Town and Country" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


A sei anni dall'incisione di Whirpool (Jazz Project, 2012), Ran Blake e Dominique Eade ripropongolo la loro esplorazione piano/voce privilegiando l'attenzione dal Great American Songbook ai canti della tradizione popolare e di denuncia sociale. Com'è noto l'83enne Ran Blake è un decano del New England Conservatory di Boston, dove fondò con Gunther Schuller il Third Sream Department. Sua lontana allieva alla fine degli anni settanta, Dominique Eade è da tempo docente nella stessa università e condivide con Ran Blake l'intransigente ...

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Album Review

Dominique Eade & Ran Blake: Town And Country

Read "Town And Country" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Pianist Ran Blake has a long track record of collaborations with vocalists starting over 50 years ago when he made the album The Newest Sound Around with Jeanne Lee and continuing in the years since in recordings with Chris Connor, Christine Correa and Sara Serpa among others. This is his second meeting on disc with his fellow instructor at the New England Conservatory, Dominique Eade. The first, Whirlpool, fit snugly in with Blake's prominent film noir interests. This remarkable new ...

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Album Review

Dominique Eade & Jed Wilson: Open

Read "Open" reviewed by Jim Santella


The jazz duo allows a vocalist to communicate with her audience more completely than any other format, since you get the pure essence of her voice along with just enough accompaniment to matter. This works quite well with a talented singer such as Dominique Eade, one of the best that jazz has to offer. She's sincere in her approach to this program, making the most of every phrase. Her superb vocal flexibility shows up on each track as she reaches ...

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Dominique Eade + Jed Wilson: Open

Read "Open" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


If you were to ask a group of emerging jazz vocalists in New York who they were influenced or taught by, a surprising number would mention Mark Murphy or Dominique Eade. Certainly, Murphy's long career and many awards do not make him a surprise choice, but what of Dominique Eade?

As the child of an Air Force officer father and a Swiss mother, Eade spent her youth in Europe living on different military posts. In high school, her ...

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Not For Sale

Dominique Eade on Mountain Stage

Read "Dominique Eade on Mountain Stage" reviewed by Ken Dryden


One of the most intriguing singers to emerge on the jazz scene during the 1990s was Dominique Eade, a gifted, chance-taking alto with a very expressive voice. Her considerable abilities as a composer and arranger, and her desire to seek deserving but less frequently performed songs, along with surrounding herself with top-flight musicians add to her appeal.

Eade has made only four CDs as a leader, two for Accurate and two for RCA, all of which seem to ...

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Performance / Tour

Internationally Renowned Vocalist Dominique Eade Performs Recital Featuring Original Music And Songs By Hoagy Carmichael, Bob Dylan And More

Internationally Renowned Vocalist Dominique Eade  Performs Recital Featuring Original Music And Songs By Hoagy Carmichael, Bob Dylan And More

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications

Internationally renowned vocalist/composer Dominique Eade is joined by pianists Jed Wilson and Ran Blake, oud player Kenan Adnawi and setar player Nima Janmohammadi in a faculty recital melding Eade’s original music with songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Bob Dylan and more. The concert takes place at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 24 at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston and is free and open to the public. For more information, go to: necmusic or call 617-585-1122. About Dominique Eade Dominique ...

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Education

Dominique Eade on Teaching at New England Conservatory

Dominique Eade on Teaching at New England Conservatory

Source: Ann Braithwaite

Dominique Eade knows the value of an open-minded teacher first hand. Eade’s creativity had found diverse outlets as a child, including guitar playing (“I was a pretty good finger- picker”) and songwriting, and as an English major at Vassar she would often supplement her assignments with poems and songs. “I was doing music constantly, but was mostly self-taught, and never thought of it as a career choice,” she recalls. “After I wrote a piano piece, `Bottom’s Dream,’ as part of ...

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Performance / Tour

Lola Danza @ Ryles Jazz Club w/ Dave Tronzo and Dominique Eade

Lola Danza @ Ryles Jazz Club w/ Dave Tronzo and Dominique Eade

Source: All About Jazz

The enchanting and innovative vocalist, Lola Danza celebrates Boston's finest Jazz Musicians with a reunion concert at Ryles Jazz Club (212 Hampshire St. Cambridge MA) Thursday February 28th, 2008 at 8:30pm. Ms. Danza will be joined by special guests, vocalist Dominique Eade, Dave Tronzo - guitar, Bob Gullotti - Drums, John Lockwood - Bass, Leo Genovese- Piano, Phil Grenadier - Trumpet, Jeff Galindo - Trombone, and Nat Mugavero - Drums. Ms. Danza celebrates Boston's finest Jazz musicians, her band mates, ...

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Event

Firehouse 12 Presents Dominique Eade/Jed Wilson Duo November 17th

Firehouse 12 Presents Dominique Eade/Jed Wilson Duo November 17th

Source: Improvised Communications

Friday, November 17th at 8:30 and 10:00 p.m. Dominique Eade/Jed Wilson Duo Firehouse 12 45 Crown Street in New Haven, CT Tickets are $15 (opening set) and $10 (second set) Details available here

Dominique Eade, vocals/composer; Jed Wilson, piano

On Friday, November 17th, vocalist/composer Dominique Eade and pianist Jed Wilson will celebrate their new CD, Open (Jazz Project), with a two-set performance at New Haven's Firehouse 12. The duo is ...

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Dominique Eade Celebrates 20 Years on NEC Faculty with Recital of Vocal-Instrumental Duets, November 8

Dominique Eade Celebrates 20 Years on NEC Faculty with Recital of Vocal-Instrumental Duets, November 8

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz Vocalist, Composer, Arranger, Lyricist Teams Up with Pianists Jed Wilson, Ran Blake and Guitarist Mick Goodrick in NEC's Jordan Hall

Jazz vocalist Dominique Eade, named one of the top ten jazz vocalists in the 1999 DownBeat Critics's Poll, will celebrate her 20th year on the New England Conservatory faculty with a recital November 8 at 8 p.m. in NEC's Jordan Hall.

Called “...an impossibly versatile vocalist, composer, lyricist, and instrumental arranger" by the New York Times Magazine, Eade will ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Town and Country

Sunnyside Records
2017

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Open

Jazz Project
2006

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The Long Way Home

Unknown label
2005

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Lullaby

From: Town and Country
By Dominique Eade

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