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WHAT A WAY TO START THE NEW YEAR!
11th Annual Jazz Benefit Concert for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society WAS A BIG SUCCESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deborah Davis & A Few Good Men
James Weidman (piano) Essiet Essiet (bass) Clarence Penn (drums)
JANUARY 7, 2008
BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB
131 W. 3rd @ 6th Ave
New York, NY 10024
8:00 & 10:30 Shows
THE ENTIRE Cover Charge all went to the charity and will be added to the Light The Night Campaign
The 2007 Show was "SOLD OUT"! raising $10,375
2006, $9020.00 raised
2005, $6651.00 raised
Join me in October 2008 in a non competitive walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to raise MORE! The Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's nationwide evening walk to raise awareness and funds to cure leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
WHY WE WALK
• Every five minutes, someone in this country is diagnosed with blood cancer.
Every nine minutes, someone dies.
• Leukemia is the leading cause of disease-related death among children
under age 15.
• Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers.
• The myeloma survival rate is only 30 percent.
I do the annual Jazz Concert and participate in the Walk in memory of my father Douglas E. Davis, Sr , who lost his battle with Leukemia 25 years ago 6/12/1981. This year I will add Tenor Saxophonist Michael Brecker and CBS news anchor Ed Bradley to those I honor with my service to the cause. Both deaths have been a great loss for the jazz community.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
If you'd like to help the cause by making a donation to help fight blood related cancer, please visite my online donation page, before the year is out! CLICK " THE BALLOON" BELOW TO learn more about Leukemia & make your TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION
GET INVOLVED!
If you’d like to join my team (THE DEBOPPERS) and walk with me across the Brooklyn Bridge on October 2008, stay just drop me a note.
More Ways to Give
$1 of all CD sales goes to Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
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GIVING BACK:
Well, I can't say it, or even sing it any better than this...................
"LIFE is God's Gift To YOU! What you do with it is your Gift to God!" - anonymous
KATRINA BENEFIT
Deborah Davis & A Few Good Men,
(James Weidman-piano, Gerald Cannon-bass, Montez Coleman-drums) headlined a Benefit Concert for Hurricane Katrina Victims, Wednesday, November 2, 2005 @ Megaro Musikis Concert Hall ,Athens, Greece. New Orleans, We Send You A Message. A Benefit Concert for Hurricane Katrina sponsored by Stavros Niarchos Foundation , Pan-Hellenic Women’s Association, The U.S. Embassy Athens , & Habitat for Humanity Athens.
While in Athens Deborah and her band also did a jazz workshop at Athenaeum Conservatory , Thursday, November 3, for the students of Professor Sylvios Syrros.
MOTIVATION: Striving for Greatness
“Not everyone can be famous, but "Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
- - - - Martin Luther King, Jr.
BIOGRAPHY:
DEBORAH DAVIS is a gifted singer and consummate performer that has captivated audiences worldwide. Her natural flowing charm, charisma, and flawless stage presence draw you into her performance. She has developed a reputation for always swinging, as she plays around with rhythmic & melodic improvisations. Also known for seducing her audiences with a ballad, Ms. Davis sings with pure honesty that will strike emotions deep in your soul. Muli-talented Davis is a poet, lyricist, actress, artist, dancer, teacher, and athlete; truly an exciting talent.
Deborah, affectionately known as Debo sang her way through college (NTSU). She matured leading her own jazz bands, and opening for artists BOBBI HUMPHREY, DEBRA LAWS and ANGELA BOFILL on the Dallas jazz scene. A highlight of her early career was the invitation to jam with native Dallas jazz legend, pianist, RED GARLAND.
Armed with a vast array of musical experiences, Debo is comfortable in almost any genre; jazz, classical, gospel, country, R&B, as well as commercial jingles. In 1986, she moved to New York City, where she quickly became a presence in the NYC jazz scene. Deborah's distinct style of phrasing, extraordinary singing ability and professionalism led to performances with legendary jazz greats LIONEL HAMPTON and CLARK TERRY. She's also had the rare opportunity to fill in for vocalist ABBEY LINCOLN. In addition, she shared the stage with RAY BROWN, FREDDIE HUBBARD, ART BLAKEY, LOU DONALDSON and HAROLD MABERN.
As a bandleader Deborah has worked with of some of the best musicians in New York including, JAMES WILLIAMS, BENNY GREEN, CYRUS CHESTNUT, ERIC REED, MARC CARY, CHRISTIAN MC BRIDE, PETER WASHINGTON, RON AFFIF, RUSSELL MALONE, MARK WHITFIELD, JEFF WATS, GREG HUTCHINSON, BRIAN BLADE, and DELFEAYO MARSALIS. She has sung on the stages of very well established jazz club & concert halls including New York's famed BIRDLAND, VILLAGE VANGUARD, SWEET BASIL, THE JAZZ STANDARD, DIZZYÃS, B.B.KINGS, TAVERN ON THE GREEN, THE RAINBOW ROOM, and has SOLD OUT "performance at THE BLUE NOTE (NYC).
Deborah's talents are not confined to jazz clubs and she has had the distinction to perform for dignitaries at the UNITED NATIONS & U.S. EMBASSY affairs including a performance for PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON. In 2004 Deborah and her band were elected by national audition as U.S. JAZZ AMBASSADORS and traveled to Latin America to foster cultural exchange and provide jazz awareness. She continues to gain international recognition during extensive tours.
In spite of her active singing career, Davis also managed to continue her theater work with performances in BEEHIVE (Japan tour), ONE MO TIME (NYC) and SH-BOOM (NYC). Her performances have generated rave reviews from the NEW YORK TIMES, NEW YORK NEWSDAY, and the AMSTERDAM NEWS as well as a host of INTERNATIONAL PAPERS & MAGAZINES.
Not one to rest on her laurels, Deborah has formed her own company MANHATTAN MUSIC DESIGN booking, contracting and performing for many of New York’s Elite Social Functions & Corporate Events. Davis is also an indie recording artist with her own label GOT MY OWN RECORDS. Deborah was invited to Athens Greece, to headline a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina with proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity. She also performs Annual Jazz Benefit Concerts for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society @ New York's Blue Note Jazz Club.
Armed with pure determination and raw talent, Davis, not coming from a musical family, grew up without a stereo. Regardless of her lack of role models she has been singing practically as long as she's been talking. The music she listened most often to is the music of her own soul. When she felt like singing, she sang. Early on singing became not what she did but who she is. With no one to emulate and no obvious musical influences, Deborah developed her own style, and created her own opportunities to sing. One of her mottos is "If there's gigs to be gigged, I'm gigging 'em."
"Miss Davis has a strong voice that can be richly colored, particularly in the lower register. -NEW YORK TIMES
LATEST RELEASE
DEBORAH DAVIS, "NO WAYS TIRED"
James Weidman (piano)
Essiet Essiet (bass)
Alvin Atkinson (drums)
Daniel Sadownick Keith Loftis (saxophone)
Kenyatta Beasley (trumpet)
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NO WAYS TIRED (LINER NOTES)
In all the arts, the writers, painters, composers who have lasted and kept on resonating in our lives have their own story to tell. A personal, and therefore, original story. Charlie Parker put it best: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man there's no boundary line to art."
Charlie Parker was speaking about jazz horn players, but his truth applies equally to jazz singers. What you hear in Deborah Davis is the sound - a signature sound - of her experiences, in and out of music. She is a long - distance runner who has riveted audiences throughout this country, Europe and Asia. And like Bird (Mr. Parker) said, she is not limited by any boundary or category of expression, being a poet, artist, actress, dancer, lyricist, as well as unmistakably a jazz singer.
To be recognized by other musicians, and by audiences, as an authentic jazz singer, you have to possess first of all your own sound. From her roots in gospel music, blues, and jazz, she tells her stories with a disciplined personal passion, immediacy, and a mosaic of textures that are so compelling, you can still hear her after the music stops.
To express yourself in jazz time, you have to move yourself and your listeners with a flowing pulse - a beat - that is the engine of jazz. As true original, clarinetist Pee Wee Russell put it: "jazz players and singers have a heart feeling and a rhythm in their systems that you can't budge. A rhythm you can't take away from them even if they were in a symphony organization." That heart feeling, that rhythm wave, courses throughout Deborah Davis' singing in this set - from the ballads to the up tempo swingers. And because that jazz time impels her improvising, she keeps surprising herself, as well as her listeners.
Deborah Davis knew what her calling in life would be when she was very young in her hometown of Dallas. At first, there being no record player in the house, and coming from a family with no musical background, she created her own style out of an irresistible desire to sing. She sang in church, in school shows, in party bands; and by the time she was in high school, the choir director, Robert Sanders, recognized her true vocation, and had her join his weekend jazz gigs.
Deborah earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree in vocal studies from North Texas State University - a testing ground for evolving jazz musicians that is known throughout the jazz world. Furthermore, being intent on learning all dimensions of her profession, she added an Associate Arts Degree in Recording Engineering at Cedar Valley College.
Since 1986, based in New York, she has performed with and impressive range of jazz masters, including Clark Terry, Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Green, Christian McBride, Brian Blade, and Russell Malone; as well as appearing in such demanding clubs as the Blue Note, Birdland, The Village Vanguard, and Sweet Basil. Her annual tours of Europe and Asia have been received with admiring press notices. For example, in Japan's premier jazz publication, Swing Journal, she is listed among the best singers who have come to Japan, and is bracketed with Betty Carter and Chaka Kahn .
The title of this reverberating recording, No Ways Tired, is very much that of her own story, in sound and spirit. As she says," the title sums up my feelings about having been in this biz singing for 30+ years, booking myself all over the globe, hustling, paying my dues, not really becoming a major player in the game, and watching what this biz is becoming with the invention of the new jazz celebrities." Invention is the key word because many of these sudden celebrities are more craftily mechanical than fundamentally, irrepressibly individual. But Deborah is indeed in no ways tired, as you can hear so vividly and infectiously in this session. "Some might have given up at this point, she says. Many I know did. But when given a chance to record, even at out of pocket expenses, and all it took to save to do it, I'm still here, and still believing it was what I was put on the planet to do." Hearing the glory of that determination, and the powerful evidence of the truth of her very reason for being, assures that this recording will always be contemporary like the testaments of all the jazz storytellers who have lasted.
Accompanying her on this set, is a rhythm section - and front line - equal to her musicianship and spontaneity. Pianist James Weidman , like the other players, has a more impressive list of credits than I have space for here. They include five years with saxophonist Steve coleman and the Five Elements and the M-Base collective; nine years as accompanist for Abbey Lincoln, and two years with Cassandra Wilson. He's also pianist and musical director for Kevin mahogany.
Bassist Essiet, Essiet has performed with Abdulla Ibrahim Dollar Brand, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Sam Rivers, Kenny Barron, Ralph Peterson, and many other jazz originals - as he is too. He also leads his own group, IBO, a Nigerian jazz project.
On drums, Alvin Atkinson has toured through the United States and abroad with his own group, and has been featured in concert with a wide range of musicians - from Roy Hargrove to Barry Harris, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, and Wycliffe Gordon. He is noted for his ability to create harmony and melody through the drums, as in the music of Africa, Brazil, Cuba, and other countries where the rhythms of life and nature are an integral part of all music.
Soprano and tenor saxophonist Keith Loftis , (At The Mambo Inn, The Very Thought of You, and You Don't Know What Love Is), is a permanent member of the Frank Foster Loud Minority Big Band, tours with Ray Charles Orchestra, and has worked with Clark Terry, Joe Williams, and Benny Carter, and many other renowned musicians. He appears in a diversity of musical contexts throughout Europe and the Orient.
Trumpeter Kenyata Beasley, (At The Mambo Inn, Dearly Beloved) is an alumnus of the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Artists (whose alumni also include Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and Terence Blanchard. He has won a galaxy of awards, among them: the International Association of Jazz Educators Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship. Among the diverse artists he has recorded and performed with are: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ellis Marsalis, Carlos Santana, Lauren Hill, and Frank Foster.
Percussionist Daniel Sadownick (At The Mambo Inn) earned a Master's in Music Education at New York University. He has performed with Lionel Hampton , Nat Adderly, Dianne Reeves, Dewey Redman, Lonnie Smith, Steve Wilson and others. Daniel never limits himself to one genre and is now busy with a number of different projects including Steely Dan, Nnenna Freelon and a Saturday Night Live appearance with Jennifer Lopez.
The combination of these enlivening, multiply skilled musicians with a singer who is also indeed a musician (not all singers are) make "No Ways Tired" a celebration of the resilience of the life force that is jazz.
-- Nat Hentoff
REVIEWS..................
A lot of jazz and a soulful voice
Reviewer: David Cole, Editor: In The Basement Magazine
Backed by a trio of James Weidman (piano), Essiet Essiet (bass) and Alvin Atkinson (drums) - augemented by other musicians on certain tracks - jazz songstress, Deborah Davis, offers up a nice selection of mainly standard fare, enchanting particularly on such as 'Dearly Beloved' and 'More Than You Know'. Where she really knocks you out though are on the two closing tracks: Percy Mayfield's oft-recorded 'Please Send Me Someone To Love' and the traditional gospel item, 'I Don't Feel No Ways Tired'. Both are at the deeper end of the market and really bring out the soul in her voice.
Makes Me Feel Alive
Reviewer: Texas Judy
I'm not a jazz expert, but the music does lift my spirits when I'm tired. Deborah's poetry comes alive when she reads it and her choice of music after the poetry is just perfect. I recommend it to fellow teachers who need their spirits lifted!!
Simply awesome!
Reviewer: Lisa
I met Deborah in Argentina at a few jazz events and she was simply amazing! I finally got one of her CDs and must say that I am EXTREMELY pleased with the God given talent she exhibits. Simply awesome!
One Of The Best Recordings This Year
Reviewer: Sandra Kaye
No Ways Tired is one of the best albums recorded this year. What I like the most about Deborah Davis is her very good taste, which she has delivered directly to this CD. The repertoire is excellent and each and every tune has a special brand of taste and clarity. (Gentlemen Friend) is one of those tunes seldom attempted by vocalist of today, Deborah, - NO PROB - she's classy that way. (You Don't Know What Love Is, Please Send Me Someone To Love) the list goes on to the end with great success. Needless to say I love this CD and so will you.
Fantastic CD..a must-have to any vocal jazz-lover's collection
Reviewer: Todd Forman
This is a great CD! Its a perfect combination of standards, spoken word and Latin-Afro style jazz. With her unique style, Deborah has joined the ranks of contemporary jazz artists such as Dianne Reeves and DeeDee Bridgewater. The legacies of Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday are in safe hands with Deborah.
Reviewer: Chris Glover
Deborah's second CD continues the trend set by her initial work on ;Only Part of Me;. She continues to inject her unique style and creativity to the standards. Her repertoire includes such greats as ;At The Mambo Inn;, ;The Very Thought of You, and;Dearly Beloved;. On this CD, Deborah introduces her talent as a poet on ;The Kiss; and ;Finally Loved;. Both of these works serve as excellent introductions to the standards that follow. For example, ;Finally Loved; sets up the perfect prelude to;Secret Love;. Deborah Davis is very talented and is destined to be a mighty force on the Jazz scene. Deborah has a knack for selecting the perfect accompaniment. James Weidman (piano), Essiet Essiet (bass), and Alvin Atkinson (drums).;No Ways Tired; is a CD that I think you will thoroughly enjoy.
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