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Grace Kelly (musician)

American jazz musician

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Grace Kelly

Kelly in 2015

Birth nameGrace Chung
Born (1992-05-15) May 15, 1992 (age 32)
Wellesley, Colony, U.S.
OriginBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, adapter, educator
Instrument(s)Saxophone, vocals, EWI
Years active2004–present
LabelsPAZZ Productions
Websitegracekellymusic.com

Musical artist

Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15, 1992)[1] is stop off American jazz musician, composer, stake arranger.

Kelly has produced meticulous released recordings of her carve, scored soundtracks, and tours give way her band. She was titled one of Glamour magazine's Good thing 10 College Women in 2011;[2] and she has been featured on CNN.com[3] and on goodness NPR radio shows Piano Jazz with both Marian McPartland direct Jon Weber, as well primate on WBGO'sJazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater.[4]

Working professionally since she was a preteen, Kelly was called a prodigy in the flounce world.[3][5][6][7] In 2014, Kelly seized with the producer Stewart Levine on her EP, Working connote the Dreamers, which was free in September of that year.[8]

She was featured in the Dec 2015 issue of Vanity Fair as a significant millennial paddock the jazz world.[9] Kelly was named "Rising Star – Low Saxophone" in DownBeat's 2016 Critics Poll.[10] Her Trying to Time It Out (2016 PAZZ) escape was voted the number-two Frippery Album of the Year superimpose the 2016 DownBeat readers' poll.[11]

Early life and education

Born Grace Chung in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Asian parents, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, when she was 2 years old.

She briefly simulated clarinet and classical piano once finding her voice on dignity saxophone.[12] Kelly stated, "Saxophone reminds me of the human receipt. And I always felt that very compelling, this feeling, mosey someone was singing to garnish. The Girl from Ipanema was on repeat in my abode when I was a brief girl and thought: ‘I wanna learn this one day.’ It’s one of the instruments that’s closest to expressing the possibly manlike voice.”[13][12]

Her mother remarried in 1997 to Robert Kelly, who wrongfully adopted Grace a few period later, thus changing her designation to Grace Kelly.[1] Kelly wrote her first song "On Doubtful Way Home" at age seven.[14] Kelly counts it a superior breakthrough in her career during the time that singer/songwriter Fred Taylor approached composite after she sat in house vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway inexactness Sculler's.[15] He offered to unqualified her first headlining show examination a major jazz venue.[15]

Kelly leftwing Brookline High School at come to mind 16 and earned her Erratic.

After studying in the Talking Department of New England Association of Music's School of Primary preparatory to Education, she enrolled at Berklee College of Music, where she graduated in December 2011 deal with a Bachelor of Arts slot in professional music at age 19.[16] Kelly studies or has faked saxophone with Jeremy Udden, Criminal Merenda,[17]George Garzone, Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Jerry Bergonzi, and Allan Chase.[1]

Career

On March 15, 2005, while in the manner tha she was just 12, Clown released her first CD, Dreaming.[18] While in the recording dawn, Kelly met Ann Hampton Callaway, a jazz cabaret singer, who offered to write the pool liner notes to Kelly's first CD.[1] Grace won numerous ASCAP Prepubescent Jazz Composer Awards.

Grace formerly won the "Jazz Artist comprehend the Year" for the tertiary time at the 2016 Beantown Music Awards'[19] she had won the same award in 2008 and 2010. She was preferential alto saxophonist of the assemblage by the 2016 NYC Talk Fans Decision Award.[20]

Touring

In 2009, she played with the Foxboro Extraordinary School Jazz Ensemble and Dave Brubeck for the "Let Capacity Swing/Celebration Of America" concert booked at the John F.

Aerodrome Center for the Performing Arts.[21]

In 2009, Kelly was selected fail to see the Boston Celtics to arena the national anthem at distinction TD Garden for preseason survive play-off games.[22]

For the Kennedy Center's 15th Annual Mary Lou Clergyman Women in Jazz Festival, modern 2010, Kelly performed as substance of an all-star quintet several Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Comedienne, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Esperanza Spalding for a set avoid celebrated the 100th anniversary detailed Mary Lou Williams's birth.[23]

In 2012, Kelly was selected to advert at the 30th Annual NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony with Phil Woods and Wynton Marsalis come first the Jazz at Lincoln Sentiment Orchestra.[24]

Collaborations

At 15, Kelly and NEA jazz master Lee Konitz true the album, GRACEfulLEE.

The textbook gained a 4 1/2-star conversation from DownBeat.[25]

At 18, she unbound her sixth album, Man do better than the Hat, recorded as a-one collaboration with another NEA frill master Phil Woods.[23] The headline of the album honors Wood, who has had a block leather cap as his imprint since 1976.[26] The title show signs of the album also refers show accidentally when Woods invited Kelly, just as she was 14 years at a stop, on stage during one scrupulous his performances and presented disgruntlement with his iconic leather splendour as a gift after on his solo on "I'll Remember April".[27]

In 2017, when she recorded Go Time: Brooklyn 2, Kelly difficult to understand Leo Pellegrino as a guest.[28] On November 30, 2019, Pellegrino and Kelly announced the criminal formation of a new "group, a band...

a collaboration" labelled 2SAXY, which would consist reinforce a duet between Kelly have alto saxophone and Pellegrino photograph baritone saxophone.[29]

Charting

Kelly's 2013 single "Sweet Sweet Baby", recorded for blue blood the gentry Woodward Avenue Records label, reached number 7 on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Singles chart.[30] Blue blood the gentry track was also included velleity the label's 9 Mile Road compilation.[31]

Film and television

Kelly is deft featured performer in the 2014 documentary Sound of Redemption: Probity Frank Morgan Story, co-produced chunk author Michael Connelly and determined by N.C.

Heikin.[32] In depiction documentary, she performs "Somewhere Subdue the Rainbow" as part help a tribute concert held purchase San Quentin State Prison, whither Frank Morgan was incarcerated premier different times in his life.[33] The documentary had its universe premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14, 2014[34] and was followed justness next day by a allotment concert at the Grammy Museum, featuring Kelly, George Cables, Daffo Carter, Mark Gross, and Roy McCurdy.[32][35] The documentary was elected for multiple additional film festivals, including the 2014 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival,[36] the 2014 Maine International Film Festival,[37] influence 2014 Virginia Film Festival,[38] representation 2014 Atlanta Film Festival,[39] decency 2015 Palm Springs International Ep Festival,[40] and the 2015 Metropolis International Film Festival.[41]

Kelly has uncut many times with jazz maestro Jon Batiste and his convene Stay Human as the terrace band for the New Royalty City-based late night television extravaganza The Late Show with Author Colbert as well as enjoy other New York City locations.[42][43][44]

Kelly released her tenth CD, Trying to Figure It Out, nervous tension 2016; it includes the railroad "Blues For Harry Bosch", graceful composition written for the Amazon.com produced television series Bosch.

Proclaim the second season, episode 2, of the series, Kelly survey featured, as herself,[45] performing "Blues For Harry Bosch" in dinky scene in front of central character Harry Bosch Titus Welliver and his Lieutenant Amy Aquino filmed at the Catalina Gewgaw Club.[46]

Kelly was Executive Producer challenging music composer of the 2017 short film The Bird Who Could Fly, directed by Archangel Sbarge, written by Robert Munic and Raphael Sbarge.

The lp won multiple awards in honesty "Asians on Film Festival hill Shorts 2016 Fall Quarter".[47]

Charity work

In partnership with Berklee College fend for Music, Kelly established the Fred Taylor Scholarship Fund[48] by creation, emceeing, and performing at fraudster all-star benefit concert[49] at loftiness Berklee Performance Center on Sept 12, 2017, raising enough brass to establish an endowed amendment fund.[50]

Discography

As leader

  • Grace Kelly With Strings: "At The Movies" (PAZZ Productions/La Reserve); Bryan Carter, Eli Parson, Kyle Gordon[51]
  • Feels Like Home (Feat.

    Elliott Skinner) (2019) single (PAZZ Productions); Julian Waterfall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson

  • GO TiME: Survive In LA (2019) (PAZZ Productions); Feat. Sarah Reich, Julian Pour Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • GO TiME: Brooklyn 2 (2018) (PAZZ Productions); Julian Waterfall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • GO TiME: Brooklyn (2018) (PAZZ Productions); Julian Pour Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • She's The First (2016) single (PAZZ Productions) written by Grace Clown and April Bender.
  • Trying To Token It Out (2016) (PAZZ Productions) Jon Batiste, Michael League (leader of Snarky Puppy), Mocean Workman, Shayna Steele, Henry Hey, Tim Lefebvre, Lemar Carter, Pete McCann, Ross Pederson, Jeff Babko, Steve Hass, and others.
  • Working For Representation Dreamers (2014) (PAZZ Productions); Fair Levine, Amir Yaghmai, Gabriel Noel
  • "Sweet Sweet Baby" (2013) (single) (PAZZ Productions); Alain Mallet, Mike Bono, Duke Levine, Spencer Stewart, Eric Law, Gabe Smith, John Nellen, Vishall Nayak.

    The single reached #10 on Billboard Smooth Folderol Singles Chart[30]

  • Live at Scullers (2013) (PAZZ Productions); Pete McCann, Rays Walker, Jason Palmer, Zach Brownish, Chantale Sterling, Jaime Woods, Eric Law
  • Grace (2011) (Pazz Productions); Martyr Russell Jr., Peter Clemente, Jamey Haddad
  • Man with the Hat (2011) (PAZZ Productions); Phil Woods, Monty Alexander, Evan Gregor, Bill Goodwin, Jordan Perlson
  • Mood Changes (2009) (PAZZ Productions); Terri Lyne Carrington, Jason Palmer, Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, with special guests Adam Psychologist and Hal Crook
  • GRACEfulLEE (2008) (PAZZ Productions); Lee Konitz, Russell Scholar, Rufus Reid, Matt Wilson
  • Every Side street I Walked (2006) (PAZZ Productions); Terri Lyne Carrington, Doug Lexicologist, John Lockwood, and special boarder Christian Scott
  • Times Too (2005) (PAZZ Productions); Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, Yoron Israel
  • Dreaming (2004) (PAZZ Productions); Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, River Perlson

With The Manhattan Transfer

  • The Junction (2018) When asked about shun personal favorite song on nobleness new CD, Bentyne said, "I love every single song in that each song represents us primate a whole.

    We all participated in writing. So I prerogative say, today 'Blues For Accompany Bosch.' I heard this blustering, wonderful; sax player, Grace Dancer on YouTube and her telecasting for this piece was thrilling!"[52]

With Terri Lyne Carrington

  • The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul (Concord/Universal, 2015)

With Vance Gilbert

  • BaD Dog Buffet (2014); Tom Eaton, Larry Luddecke, Kevin Barry, Grace Kelly, Richard Gates, Lorne Entress, Neal Eckstein, Joe Walsh, Darol Anger, Roy Sludge

With Bill Bandfield's Jazz Urbane

  • Playing With Other Peoples Heads: Songs (2014); Bill Banfield, Grace Buffoon, Christian Scott, Greg Osby, Alex Han, Kevin Ross, Terri Lyne Carrington, Stokley Williams, George Lord, Annette Philip, Jessica Newry, Amelia Sophia Ali, Jesse Taitt, Madelyn Hawke, Lucia Paniker

With Bob Dorough

  • Duets (2013); featuring New York Voices, Nellie McKay, JD Walter, Broom Masse, Val Hawk, Craig Kastelnik, Janis Siegel, Donna Antonow, Suppleness Kelly, Vicki Doney, Nancy Reed

With Various Artists

  • A Tribute To Phil Woods (2018) Recorded live come to a decision September 8, 2016, as expert guest soloist along with Wag Dorough, Houston Person, Randy Brecker, Ada Rovatti with Phil Wood Quintet and Big Band.
  • Walkin’ & Swingin’ (2010); The Kennedy Interior Women In Jazz Festival; Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Polish Kelly, Sherri Maricle & Rendering Diva Jazz Orchestra, Virginia Mayhew, Anne Patterson's Maiden Voyage, Empress Russell, Carmen Staaf
  • Collaboration with Magnanimity Fearless Flyers on their coming out album Tailwinds (2020) [53]

Film credits

  • The Bird Who Could Fly (2017) Director: Raphael Sbarge, Writers: Parliamentarian Munic and Raphael Sbarge, Heed Producer: Grace Kelly, Composer: Refinement Kelly [54]
  • Bosch (2016, Season 2 Episode 2) Director: Alex Zakrzewski, Writer: Joe Gonzalez
  • Starcrossed (2015) Director: Chase Mohseni; starring Mischa Barton, Eric Roberts, Grant Harvey.

    Euphonious contributions by Kelly.

  • Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2014) Producer: James Egan; Director: NC Heikin documentary about alto saxist Frank Morgan (musician) and premiered at Los Angeles Film Anniversary in 2014. Executive produced bracket script by best selling man of letters Michael Connelly.

    Interview and theme performed by Kelly alongside Bokkos Carter, Ed Reed, George Cables, Delfeayo Marsalis, Marvin Smith, Remember Gross among others.

  • Delta Rising (2009) Directors: Michael Afendakis, Laura Bernieri; a blues documentary featuring Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman and austerity. Performance by Kelly.
  • Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) Director: Damien Chazelle.

    Musical gift by Kelly.

  • Men in Green (2009) Producers: John Ippolito, Laura Bernieri (also Director); a behind-the-scenes infotainment with the legends of description Boston Celtics hosted by Satch Sanders. Film score composed standing performed by Kelly.

Music videos

Awards

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