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Cameron Brown & the Hear & Now at The Falcon

Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on September 10, 2014

Where

The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970

When

Fri, September 26, 2014
7:00 pm

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Featuring perennial poll-winners, NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan and Don Byron on the front line, Cameron Brown and Tony Jefferson - main instigator, a double threat, percussionist supreme and vocal partner for Sheila.

Original music and lyrics by Cameron, Sheila, Don Cherry, Cole Porter, Hank Williams and more!

Sheila Jordan (Vocals)
sheilajordanjazz.com
One of the most consistently creative jazz singers of all time, Sheila Jordan is a superb scat singer, and an emotional interpreter of ballads. Jordan was one of the few singers to lead her own Blue Note album (1962). It would be a decade before she appeared on records again, working with Carla Bley, Roswell Rudd, and co-leading a group with Steve Kuhn in the late '70s. Jordan recorded a memorable duet album with bassist Arild Andersen for SteepleChase in 1977, and has since teamed up with bassist Harvie Swartz. By the 1980s, Jordan was performing jazz full-time and gaining long deserved recognition. As a leader, she recorded for East Wind, Grapevine, SteepleChase, Palo Alto, Blackhawk, and Muse, resurfacing in 1999 with Jazz Child....

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