KCC
Productions presents the South Florida Jazz Orchestra, featuring
vocalist Lisanne Lyons, at Pinecrest Gardens' Banyan Bowl October 27
at 8 PM. Pinecrest Gardens is located at 11000 SW 57th Ave. Tickets
are $20.
The
SOUTH FLORIDA JAZZ ORCHESTRA is a modern Big Band comprising some of
the best jazz musicians, studio musicians, and Jazz educators in the
southeastern part of the United States. Their eclectic repertoire
includes many original compositions by band members, as well as
classic charts from such greats as Thad Jones, Charles Mingus, John
Clayton, Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, John Fedchock, and many more,
all influenced by their diverse backgrounds and experiences in the
South Florida music community. In June of 2006 renowned bassist and
composer, Chuck Bergeron gathered a select group of top-notch
Miami-based musicians and formed the first professional jazz
rehearsal big band in the Greater Miami/South Florida area. On the
evening of October 4th this sixteen-piece big band took the stage at
the Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club, making their first professional debut
as the new South Florida Jazz Orchestra. In a town known more for its
salsa music than jazz, this performance marked a bold attempt to fill
a long existing void in the local jazz scene. The establishment of a
professional orchestra playing traditional big band music in this
community is in many ways an historic musical event.
Lisanne Lyons teaches
Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami’s Frost School of
Music. She
has produced two solo CD's and two CD's as lead soprano in the
DC-based Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet, with whom she performed at major
jazz festivals across the country and abroad. She also performs with
“Mad Romance”, a four-voice a
capella
group. Lisanne is the recipient of several DownBeat awards as a jazz
vocal soloist, jazz vocal choir director, and most recently as a jazz
arranger. She is in demand as a performer, arranger, adjudicator and
clinician. Lisanne has headlined at the Ottawa, Detroit, and
Clearwater Jazz Festivals, and La
Nuit du Jazz
(France). She was the first to perform live the Nelson Riddle
arrangements of the George Gershwin Songbook that he wrote for Ella
Fitzgerald, who only recorded them. She is currently working on a new
show, a tribute to the great vocalists Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee,
Anita O’Day, Ella Fitzgerald, and others.
