Mara Kaye - The Music of Billie Holiday
Schedule
Sat Apr 27 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Location
The Grand Annex Music Hall | San Pedro, CA
A Billie Holiday! A Celebration of Lady Day
featuring Mara Kaye bassist Marlon Martinez and The Marlonius Jazz Orchestra
A Tribute to the music of Billie Holiday with pre-concert workshop “A Storyteller’s Guide to Singing the Blues”
Mara Kaye
Vivacious Brooklynite turned Angelino Mara Kaye has a voice that all at once transcends the earthly realm and tenderly knocks you to the floor. She’s like some last pocket of the blues that never got explored all wrapped up in a ball of 21st-century charisma.
“She’s got “a voice that sounds like Louis Armstrong’s trumpet at a rent party” says blues guitar legend Jimmy Vivino and The Wall Street Journal thinks she’s a sign that “things are getting better.”
Mara’s debut single “It Had to Be You” featuring roots and blues piano legend Carl Sonny Leyland has garnered acclaim and steady rotation on LA’s premier jazz station KJAZZ 88.1 FM. Her original tune “Dystopian Blues” was showcased on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show.’ A recent collaboration with Brooklyn hip-hop legend AZ on his track “Never Enough” with rapper Rick Ross highlights how Mara continues to build bridges and to defy genre expectations.
The Marlonius Jazz Orchestra
Hailing from Los Angeles Marlon Martinez brings his Marlonius Jazz Orchestra to accompany Miss Mara Kaye! Marlon is a virtuoso bassist and composer. He is a protégé of Stanley Clarke a graduate of the Colburn Conservatory of Music a student of jazz bassist Ron Carter and has toured with a range of artists – notably Stewart Copeland Mike Garson Quatuor Ebène and Wild Up.
Recently in 2022 Marlon created Ever Up and Onward: A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn an eight-episode educational video series produced by the Colburn School and his 2017 debut album Yours Truly is available worldwide with reviews by All About Jazz and L.A. Jazz Scene.
☆Roots & Rambles Workshop: A Storyteller’s Guide to Singing the Blues
Roots & Rambles is a concert workshop series featuring musicians dedicated to the preservation artistry and evolution of folk and traditional music in the United States. One hour before the concert. Please RSVP if you plan on participating. Concert tickets are required to participate.
Roots & Rambles is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Where is it happening?
The Grand Annex Music Hall, 434 W. 6th Street, San Pedro, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
