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http://www.myspace.com/joaniepallatto
http://www.youtube/joaniepallatto
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joanie-Pallatto
http://www.chicagosound.com (Southport Records)
Joanie Pallatto will release a new CD of all original music in early 2010, "So It Seems" (Southport Records.) Featuring a track with jazz legend Bob Dorough, the CD also features Fareed Haque, Howard Levy, Sparrow, Dave Onderdonk, Eric Hochberg, Bobby Lewis, Dave Gordon, Jason Smart and Michael Raynor.
Check out Joanie Pallatto's 2008 CD "It's Not Easy" from Southport Records! Joanie Pallatto delivers ten original songs with her clear, soulful voice on "It's Not Easy," featuring Fareed Haque, Howard Levy, Alejo Poveda, Eric Hochberg, Bradley Parker-Sparrow, John Devlin, john E. Magnan, Eldee Young and Michael Raynor (and Magic, the Dog.)
Watch the video of "Violets Are Blue", "Happy Life" and "It's Not Easy" - plus a live performance at Katerina's nightclub in Chicago on youtube!
Vocalist Joanie Pallatto and pianist Sparrow (Bradley Parker-Sparrow) are partners at Southport Records and Sparrow Sound Design in Chicago. Rick Kogan of The Chicago Tribune says Joanie has "A stirring and special voice." Studs Terkel says "Sparrow is one of Chicago's originals, he does not follow the fashion of the day, but his own north star."
A native of Xenia, Ohio, Joanie Pallatto is a graduate of The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Joanie toured with The Glenn Miller Orchestra as a featured vocalist before moving to Chicago in 1979 to pursue her career in music.
As a Solo Singer, Group Singer and Voiceover Talent, Joanie has recorded on countless radio and television commercials nationally. (SAG/AFTRA/AFM)
As a SOUTHPORT recording artist, Joanie's first album as a leader is from 1986, "Whisper Not." Cliff Colnot arranged “Antonio’s Song†for nineteen strings with the rhythm section! This recording exists on vinyl LP and cassette.
The 1994 CD release of "Who Wrote This Song?" features a who's who of Chicago's finest musicians, including Fareed Haque, Willie Pickens, Howard Levy, Steve Eisen, Larry Gray, Sparrow and vocalist/pianist/composer/lyricist and jazz legend, Bob Dorough.
"Passing Tones" is Joanie's 1995 CD release. Featuring tenor sax great Von Freeman, and pianist extraordinaire Willie Pickens, Joanie explores her ever-expanding repertoire of classic standards, obscure song gems and original songs, with liner notes by Bob Dorough!
Joanie is featured on the 1996 SOUTHPORT CD, "FIRE with Von Freeman" exploring free, improvised jazz with pianist Sparrow, bassist Tatsu Aoki and drummer Michael Raynor.
"TWO" with pianist/arranger Marshall Vente is Joanie's critically-acclaimed CD release from 1997. One piano and one voice combine...
On the 1999 release of "Words & Music", Joanie explores the pure essence of music from the Great American Songbook, and original compositions with her trademark jazz sensibility. With Eldee Young, Rich Fudoli, Alejo Poveda, Sparrow, Dave Onderdonk, Willie Pickens...
The year 2000 brings a new recording to the table, with legendary veteran pianist/composer King Fleming, "The King And I." All but four selections are King's originals, with several lyric contributions by Joanie. Featuring the King Fleming rhythm section of Clifford Griffin-bass and Bill Cochran-drums, with Von Freeman, Rich Fudoli and Bobby Lewis.
As a jazz vocalist, Joanie performs at various venues in the Chicago area, including Andy's, Katerina's and Pops for Champagne. Concert engagements have included The Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, The Old Town School Of Folk Music, Park West, Bailiwick Theater, and as featured soloist with Daniel Barenboim in "Ellington Among Friends" at Symphony Center in 1999.
As a pianist-composer Sparrow's compositions appear on his own recordings (Latin Black, AM/FM, Inside/Out, The Desert Rat Suite, Solo Sparrow, We Are Not Machines, Canned Beer, The Light (a tone poem), Shut Eye, The Black Romantic and "The New World" on Asian Improv Records, released in 2009) and over 20 CDs for other artists. He has scored 5 feature length films, various documentaries and composed ballets for Joseph Holmes, MoMing and The Chicago Dance Medium.
Performances include The Chicago Jazz Festival, ChicagoFest, Taste of Chicago, Katerina's, The Bop Shop, The Green Mill, The Asian American Jazz Festival in San Francisco, Duke University, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Columbia College, The Jazz Showcase and Orchestra Hall in Chicago.
Check out Sparrow's video on youtube, "KANYE OK, OK (She Wants a Jazz Man.)"
Sparrow QUOTE: "The modern artist sees no difference between the construction of a song or the construction of a building. Intellectual labor co-exists with physical labor. There is poetry in the formation of art and the formation of room design. Sweat is a part of art, and art needs physical tension. The modern artist must be diverse in order to exist in the modern corporate world."
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