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Dominique Eade

Vocalist and Composer, Bookings: www.treelawn.org

About Me

Dominique Eade's voice is agile and versatile, perfectly suiting her formidable improvisational skills. A fierce interpreter of standards, Dominique is also a composer and lyricist, and has taught vocalists and instrumentalists at her alma mater, New England Conservatory, for twenty two years.
Eade has been a featured vocalist and composer in the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Jazz in Toulon Festival in France, the Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway, the What Is Jazz? Festival in New York, and the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and an artist-in-residence, clinician, and performer at the Wichita and Litchfield jazz festivals. Eade performs regularly in the U.S. and Europe. A frequent nominee for Outstanding Jazz Vocalist in the Boston Music Awards since 1988, and the 1997 and 1999 winner in this category, Eade was also designated "Best Jazz Singer" in Entertainment Weekly's Regional Raves in 1997 and nominated for best new artist by the First Annual Jazz Awards (New York) in 1998. She was recognized in the 1998 Down Beat critics poll as "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition." Her debut CD on RCA Victor, "When the Wind Was Cool," appeared in 1998 Top Ten lists in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, and in Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines; her second RCA Victor CD, "The Long Way Home," was released in 1999, with contributions by Dave Holland, Victor Lewis, Mick Goodrick, and Bruce Barth. Her earlier CD, "My Resistance Is Low," was voted one of the Top Ten Jazz CDs of 1995 by Billboard. Her highly-acclaimed first recording, "The Ruby and the Pearl" was released in 1990 on Accurate Records. Dominique's latest album "Open" (Jazz Project 3001) is a duo album with pianist Jed Wilson and is now available on www.cdbaby.com.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/31/2006
Band Website: dominiqueeade.com
Band Members: Dominque has performed and or recorded with a wide array of musicians including: Fred Hersch, Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mick Goodrick, Bruce Barth, Stanley Cowell, Alan Dawson, Benny Golson, George Mraz, Lewis Nash, Steve Nelson, Mark Helias, Gene Bertoncini, Brad Shepik, Ben Street, Kenny Wollesen, Peter Leitch, Donald Brown, Jed Wilson, Butch Morris, and Ran Blake.
Influences: Betty Carter, Wayne Shorter, Joni Mitchell, Jeanne Lee, Shirley Horn, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Strayhorn, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Bert Williams, Louis Armstrong, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Woody Guthrie, Carmen McRae, Don Cherry, Elis Regina, Sonny Rollins, Anita O'Day, Flora Purim, Chris Connor, Harold Arlen, June Christy, and Frank Loesser.
Sounds Like: This might not be the right place to put this, but I just wanted to thank the creators of this MySpace page for my existence in cyberspace. It's not exactly mine yet, because I don't really know how to get around on it, but I will. (I got this far, which I'd like to view as promising.) Thanks to those of you who said 'yes' to being my friend, and if I didn't add you already, it's just that I don't know how, yet. I look forward to figuring it out, though, and to checking out your pages and your music. Maybe this belongs in 'blog.'
Record Label: RCA and Accurate Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New CD release and website!

Dear friends,I am very happy to announce the release of my new CD, Open (Jazz Project 3001), a collection of duets with pianist Jed Wilson. The CD is now available for purchase through CDBaby.com. You...
Posted by Dominique Eade on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:00:00 PST