Jenny will be performing at the Victoria International JazzFest!
The Victoria Jazz Society, through its innovative artistic vision, has attracted thousands of leading artists from around the world to perform in Victoria. Hundreds of thousands of fans have enjoyed many outstanding festival and non-festival performances that have featured the full spectrum of jazz and improvised music - from the traditional and mainstream, to the avant-garde, including worldbeat and the blues.
Monday June 28, 2010 - 9:30pm at Pacific Restaurant at Hotel Grand Pacific 463 Bellville St. (reservations required)
Tuesday June 29, 2010 - 9:30pm at Pacific Restaurant at Hotel Grand Pacific 463 Bellville St. (reservations required)
Tuesday June 29, 2010 - 12:00pm at Centennial Square, 2 Centennial Square (Free Admission)
Jenny Davis returns to the studio after a five-year hiatus with a new
album of intimate jazz standards titled: INSIDE YOU. The album includes
some original and little known tracks drawn from some of the best
composers. Internationally renowned composer, RODGERS GRANT, worked
closely with Davis, and contributes with his sultry ballad, MORNING
GLORY, while JENNY DAVIS displays her commitment to jazz with the title
track.
“You have now given me more reason to gloat! A sparkling performance…I love it!” RODGERS GRANT
Featured on INSIDE YOU; are jazz guitarist, Chuck Easton; San Francisco tenor saxophonist, Louis Aissen and double bassist, Ted Enderle. All with decades of seasoned jazz experience as ‘top in their field’ performers and educators. Chuck Easton, a Berklee School of Music alumni and grant recipient from the National Endowment of the Arts, and has gone on to educate hundreds of students, including celebrated guitarist, Miles Okasaki, who regularly performs with Jane Monheit.
RODGERS GRANT pianist is best known for his work with Mongo Santamaria in the 1960s, where, for a time, Herbie Hancock was his substitute. His composition Morning Star has been frequently recorded by Stan Getz, Hubert Laws, Ralph Moore and others. He was a co-writer of the pop hit Yeh Yeh which is sometimes featured in film and TV soundtracks. Sonny Fortune, Groove Holmes, T.S. Monk, and Mongo are among the other Jazz artists who have recorded his compositions.