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About Me

..Silvano grew up in Philadelphia and shares a life of music with celebrated saxophonist and Cleveland native Joe Lovano, whom she met at jam sessions in 1980. Together they founded JSL Records and have released jazz CDs and DVDs and most recently 2 CD's of Music for Healing Meditation (more in the works) so far. The first "Sound Garden - Spirit Music" is a calm and peaceful collaboration with Joe on gongs and woodwinds and Judi on flutes and percussion, while the second "Sound Garden ~ Celestial Voices" features Judi's arrangements with her a-capella vocal ensemble.NEW CD Release in SEPTEMBER with her CLEOME - LIVE TAKES CD with Improv Masters George Garzone, Michael Formanek & Gerry Hemingway on JSL Records. Look for concerts and gigs with this great band AND with Sax- Master JOE LOVANO as special guest in her bands throughout the rest of the year.Check her website for more information: www.judisilvano.com.With 8 recordings on Blue Note, Soul Note, JSL and Zoho labels, vocalist and composer/lyricist JUDI SILVANO has led multiple groups from a vocal ensemble on her first CD "Dancing Voices" to a duo with pianist Mal Waldron to an all-star little big-band on her recent "Let Yourself Go" release of All-Standards. She has won grants from Meet the Composer & New York State Council on the Arts (twice), has been named a Top 10 Vocalist in Down Beat magazine (three times), has contributed articles to All About Jazz & the book "Advice From The Masters" and has been the subject of an original composition "Sketches for Silvano" by contemporary composer Lori Dobbins.Ms. Silvano has been featured at festivals and concert halls around the globe, including the Creative Music & Jazz Festivals in Montreal, Paris, London, Verona, Perugia, Istanbul, North Sea, ad Caramoor & JVC Jazz Festivals in NYC. She teaches VOCAL IMPROV MASTER CLASSES and WORKSHOPS internationally and so if you're interested, please contact her about upcoming projects. May the gardens of music grow and blossom in all our lives!

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Member Since: 6/7/2006
Band Website: judisilvano.com
Band Members: Vocalist & Composer/ Lyricist JUDI SILVANO loves to play with fun-loving and swinging musicians that really listen to each other on the bandstand.Her CLEOME Quartet, features GEORGE GARZONE, MIKE FORMANEK & GERRY HEMINGWAY and their upcomiing release "CLEOME - LIVE TAKES" will be seeing the light of day in SEPTEMBER. Concentrating on Silvano's original compositions with lots of Improvisational Interplay throughout, this is a band that knows how to have fun!!! She has played with some of the greats like JOE LOVANO & KENNY WERNER & LEE KONITZ & BILLY HART & BILL FRISELL & VICTOR LEWIS & RATZO B. HARRIS & INGRID JENSEN & DICK OATTS & RUFUS REID, so she has a pretty high standard!!!!Silvano's WOMEN"S WORK QUARTET features the brilliant pianist JANICE FRIEDMAN who not only swings her butt off but she'll make you want to dance and tap your toes till the cows come home!!! haha.... She's also a great composer and teacher so check her out!!!Also featured is bassist JENNIFER VINCENT who can thump along with the best and gets a deep groove into the sound on whatever song Silvano throws into the mix.And holding down the rhythm chair is the phantasmagorical drummer ALLISON MILLER who pops out a hoppin' beat that just won't stop and sets a magical tone that propels the music beyond where it started. TONS OF FUN hearing and watching this woman work!So....Together this is one tight unit of BEAUTIFUL FEMALE ENERGY....JUDI SILVANO's new CD with this dynamic group comes out in JUNE and we hope you'll come out and hear us anytime and anywhere before or after then!!!! RELEASE DATE IS JUNE 5, 2007 -- check it out!!!!Silvano's other bands include great pianists Frank Kimbrough or John DiMartino and a host of happening NY Musicians, when she plays a variety of the great songs of the American Songbook peppered with some of her other favorite songs by Thelonious Monk, Tadd Dameron, Billy Strayhorn.. among others!!
Influences: Ella Fitzgerald, Igor Stravinsky, Abbey Lincoln, Gustav Mahler, Isadora Duncan, Anais Nin, George Sand, Thelonious Monk, my mom and dad.
Sounds Like: Herself... and still evolving!
Record Label: JSL Records , Soul Note, Blue Note, Zoho Music.
Type of Label: Indie

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Tony Scott lives on!

Many have heard of the recent death of the great TONY SCOTT who was an inspiration to several generations of creative musicians... I heard his Zen Meditations while I was sitll in Philadelphia studyin...
Posted by Judi Silvano on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:09:00 PST