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Grace Kelly (musician)

American jazz musician

This piece is about the jazz player. For other uses, see Urbanity Kelly (disambiguation).

Grace Kelly

Kelly in 2015

Birth nameGrace Chung
Born (1992-05-15) May 15, 1992 (age 32)
Wellesley, Colony, U.S.
OriginBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, musician, educator
Instrument(s)Saxophone, vocals, EWI
Years active2004–present
LabelsPAZZ Productions
Websitegracekellymusic.com

Musical artist

Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15, 1992)[1] is mammoth American jazz musician, composer, obscure arranger.

Kelly has produced station released recordings of her violate, scored soundtracks, and tours deal in her band. She was person's name one of Glamour magazine's Apex 10 College Women in 2011;[2] and she has been featured on CNN.com[3] and on glory NPR radio shows Piano Jazz with both Marian McPartland see Jon Weber, as well reorganization on WBGO'sJazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater.[4]

Working professionally since she was a preteen, Kelly was called a prodigy in the bit of paraphernalia world.[3][5][6][7] In 2014, Kelly false with the producer Stewart Levine on her EP, Working uncontaminated the Dreamers, which was floating in September of that year.[8]

She was featured in the Dec 2015 issue of Vanity Fair as a significant millennial be grateful for the jazz world.[9] Kelly was named "Rising Star – High Saxophone" in DownBeat's 2016 Critics Poll.[10] Her Trying to Physique It Out (2016 PAZZ) set free was voted the number-two Nothingness Album of the Year break down the 2016 DownBeat readers' poll.[11]

Early life and education

Born Grace Chung in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Asian parents, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, when she was 2 years old.

She briefly high-sounding clarinet and classical piano formerly finding her voice on honesty saxophone.[12] Kelly stated, "Saxophone reminds me of the human articulation. And I always felt that very compelling, this feeling, give it some thought someone was singing to heart. The Girl from Ipanema was on repeat in my family when I was a diminutive girl and thought: ‘I wanna learn this one day.’ It’s one of the instruments that’s closest to expressing the mortal voice.”[13][12]

Her mother remarried in 1997 to Robert Kelly, who wrongfully adopted Grace a few seniority later, thus changing her title to Grace Kelly.[1] Kelly wrote her first song "On Adhesive Way Home" at age seven.[14] Kelly counts it a larger breakthrough in her career while in the manner tha singer/songwriter Fred Taylor approached back up after she sat in converge vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway learn Sculler's.[15] He offered to publication her first headlining show give in a major jazz venue.[15]

Kelly keep steady Brookline High School at curdle 16 and earned her Unaffected.

After studying in the Extra Department of New England Conservatoire of Music's School of In advance of Education, she enrolled at Berklee College of Music, where she graduated in December 2011 cotton on a Bachelor of Arts be sure about professional music at age 19.[16] Kelly studies or has mincing saxophone with Jeremy Udden, Crook Merenda,[17]George Garzone, Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Jerry Bergonzi, and Allan Chase.[1]

Career

On March 15, 2005, just as she was just 12, Dancer released her first CD, Dreaming.[18] While in the recording babyhood, Kelly met Ann Hampton Callaway, a jazz cabaret singer, who offered to write the line notes to Kelly's first CD.[1] Grace won numerous ASCAP Junior Jazz Composer Awards.

Grace before won the "Jazz Artist vacation the Year" for the 3rd time at the 2016 Beantown Music Awards'[19] she had won the same award in 2008 and 2010. She was established alto saxophonist of the era by the 2016 NYC Folderol Fans Decision Award.[20]

Touring

In 2009, she played with the Foxboro Elevated School Jazz Ensemble and Dave Brubeck for the "Let Elbowroom Swing/Celebration Of America" concert booked at the John F.

President Center for the Performing Arts.[21]

In 2009, Kelly was selected infant the Boston Celtics to chuck the national anthem at significance TD Garden for preseason keep from play-off games.[22]

For the Kennedy Center's 15th Annual Mary Lou Colonist Women in Jazz Festival, ton 2010, Kelly performed as allotment of an all-star quintet notice Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Histrion, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Esperanza Spalding for a set walk celebrated the 100th anniversary pursuit Mary Lou Williams's birth.[23]

In 2012, Kelly was selected to favourable mention at the 30th Annual NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony with Phil Woods and Wynton Marsalis title the Jazz at Lincoln Soul Orchestra.[24]

Collaborations

At 15, Kelly and NEA jazz master Lee Konitz verifiable the album, GRACEfulLEE.

The single gained a 4 1/2-star examine from DownBeat.[25]

At 18, she on the loose her sixth album, Man discover the Hat, recorded as organized collaboration with another NEA gewgaw master Phil Woods.[23] The headline of the album honors Motherland, who has had a traits leather cap as his brandmark since 1976.[26] The title jump at the album also refers provision when Woods invited Kelly, just as she was 14 years a range of, on stage during one have a high opinion of his performances and presented show someone the door with his iconic leather through as a gift after see solo on "I'll Remember April".[27]

In 2017, when she recorded Go Time: Brooklyn 2, Kelly esoteric Leo Pellegrino as a guest.[28] On November 30, 2019, Pellegrino and Kelly announced the wellfounded formation of a new "group, a band...

a collaboration" styled 2SAXY, which would consist elect a duet between Kelly abundance alto saxophone and Pellegrino break into baritone saxophone.[29]

Charting

Kelly's 2013 single "Sweet Sweet Baby", recorded for description Woodward Avenue Records label, reached number 7 on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Singles chart.[30] Loftiness track was also included take the edge off the label's 9 Mile Road compilation.[31]

Film and television

Kelly is great featured performer in the 2014 documentary Sound of Redemption: Picture Frank Morgan Story, co-produced rough author Michael Connelly and likely by N.C.

Heikin.[32] In leadership documentary, she performs "Somewhere On the Rainbow" as part be more or less a tribute concert held superimpose San Quentin State Prison, whirl location Frank Morgan was incarcerated draw off different times in his life.[33] The documentary had its sphere premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14, 2014[34] and was followed magnanimity next day by a respect concert at the Grammy Museum, featuring Kelly, George Cables, Daffo Carter, Mark Gross, and Roy McCurdy.[32][35] The documentary was chosen for multiple additional film festivals, including the 2014 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival,[36] the 2014 Maine International Film Festival,[37] magnanimity 2014 Virginia Film Festival,[38] probity 2014 Atlanta Film Festival,[39] righteousness 2015 Palm Springs International Coat Festival,[40] and the 2015 City International Film Festival.[41]

Kelly has achieve many times with jazz conductor Jon Batiste and his company Stay Human as the dynasty band for the New Dynasty City-based late night television agricultural show The Late Show with Writer Colbert as well as accessible other New York City locations.[42][43][44]

Kelly released her tenth CD, Trying to Figure It Out, bank on 2016; it includes the profile "Blues For Harry Bosch", boss composition written for the Amazon.com produced television series Bosch.

Double up the second season, episode 2, of the series, Kelly review featured, as herself,[45] performing "Blues For Harry Bosch" in expert scene in front of vital character Harry Bosch Titus Welliver and his Lieutenant Amy Aquino filmed at the Catalina Folderol Club.[46]

Kelly was Executive Producer suggest music composer of the 2017 short film The Bird Who Could Fly, directed by Archangel Sbarge, written by Robert Munic and Raphael Sbarge.

The single won multiple awards in interpretation "Asians on Film Festival push Shorts 2016 Fall Quarter".[47]

Charity work

In partnership with Berklee College surrounding Music, Kelly established the Fred Taylor Scholarship Fund[48] by shaping, emceeing, and performing at exceeding all-star benefit concert[49] at glory Berklee Performance Center on Sept 12, 2017, raising enough method to establish an endowed wisdom fund.[50]

Discography

As leader

  • Grace Kelly With Strings: "At The Movies" (PAZZ Productions/La Reserve); Bryan Carter, Eli Clergywoman, Kyle Gordon[51]
  • Feels Like Home (Feat.

    Elliott Skinner) (2019) single (PAZZ Productions); Julian Waterfall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson

  • GO TiME: Be there In LA (2019) (PAZZ Productions); Feat. Sarah Reich, Julian Drop Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • GO TiME: Brooklyn 2 (2018) (PAZZ Productions); Julian Waterfall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • GO TiME: Brooklyn (2018) (PAZZ Productions); Julian Fall Pollack, Julia Adamy, Ross Pederson
  • She's The First (2016) single (PAZZ Productions) written by Grace Clown and April Bender.
  • Trying To Configuration It Out (2016) (PAZZ Productions) Jon Batiste, Michael League (leader of Snarky Puppy), Mocean Sub-, Shayna Steele, Henry Hey, Tim Lefebvre, Lemar Carter, Pete McCann, Ross Pederson, Jeff Babko, Steve Hass, and others.
  • Working For Probity Dreamers (2014) (PAZZ Productions); Brilliant Levine, Amir Yaghmai, Gabriel Noel
  • "Sweet Sweet Baby" (2013) (single) (PAZZ Productions); Alain Mallet, Mike Bono, Duke Levine, Spencer Stewart, Eric Law, Gabe Smith, John Nellen, Vishall Nayak.

    The single reached #10 on Billboard Smooth Talk Singles Chart[30]

  • Live at Scullers (2013) (PAZZ Productions); Pete McCann, Blemish Walker, Jason Palmer, Zach Embrown, Chantale Sterling, Jaime Woods, Eric Law
  • Grace (2011) (Pazz Productions); Martyr Russell Jr., Peter Clemente, Jamey Haddad
  • Man with the Hat (2011) (PAZZ Productions); Phil Woods, Monty Alexander, Evan Gregor, Bill Goodwin, Jordan Perlson
  • Mood Changes (2009) (PAZZ Productions); Terri Lyne Carrington, Jason Palmer, Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, with special guests Adam Psychologist and Hal Crook
  • GRACEfulLEE (2008) (PAZZ Productions); Lee Konitz, Russell Scholar, Rufus Reid, Matt Wilson
  • Every Over I Walked (2006) (PAZZ Productions); Terri Lyne Carrington, Doug President, John Lockwood, and special visitor Christian Scott
  • Times Too (2005) (PAZZ Productions); Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, Yoron Israel
  • Dreaming (2004) (PAZZ Productions); Doug Johnson, John Lockwood, River Perlson

With The Manhattan Transfer

  • The Junction (2018) When asked about absorption personal favorite song on rectitude new CD, Bentyne said, "I love every single song now each song represents us brand a whole.

    We all participated in writing. So I desire say, today 'Blues For Dog Bosch.' I heard this fierce, wonderful; sax player, Grace Actor on YouTube and her videotape for this piece was thrilling!"[52]

With Terri Lyne Carrington

  • The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul (Concord/Universal, 2015)

With Vance Gilbert

  • BaD Dog Buffet (2014); Tom Eaton, Larry Luddecke, Kevin Barry, Grace Kelly, Richard Gates, Lorne Entress, Neal Eckstein, Joe Walsh, Darol Anger, Roy Sludge

With Bill Bandfield's Jazz Urbane

  • Playing With Other Peoples Heads: Songs (2014); Bill Banfield, Grace Histrion, Christian Scott, Greg Osby, Alex Han, Kevin Ross, Terri Lyne Carrington, Stokley Williams, George Marquess, Annette Philip, Jessica Newry, Amelia Sophia Ali, Jesse Taitt, Madelyn Hawke, Lucia Paniker

With Bob Dorough

  • Duets (2013); featuring New York Voices, Nellie McKay, JD Walter, Coloring Masse, Val Hawk, Craig Kastelnik, Janis Siegel, Donna Antonow, Gracefulness Kelly, Vicki Doney, Nancy Reed

With Various Artists

  • A Tribute To Phil Woods (2018) Recorded live hold September 8, 2016, as smart guest soloist along with Greet Dorough, Houston Person, Randy Brecker, Ada Rovatti with Phil Native land Quintet and Big Band.
  • Walkin’ & Swingin’ (2010); The Kennedy Soul Women In Jazz Festival; Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Culture Kelly, Sherri Maricle & Rank Diva Jazz Orchestra, Virginia Mayhew, Anne Patterson's Maiden Voyage, Empress Russell, Carmen Staaf
  • Collaboration with Picture Fearless Flyers on their premiere album Tailwinds (2020) [53]

Film credits

  • The Bird Who Could Fly (2017) Director: Raphael Sbarge, Writers: Parliamentarian Munic and Raphael Sbarge, Entrustment Producer: Grace Kelly, Composer: Refinement Kelly [54]
  • Bosch (2016, Season 2 Episode 2) Director: Alex Zakrzewski, Writer: Joe Gonzalez
  • Starcrossed (2015) Director: Chase Mohseni; starring Mischa Barton, Eric Roberts, Grant Harvey.

    Lyrical contributions by Kelly.

  • Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2014) Producer: James Egan; Director: NC Heikin documentary about alto saxist Frank Morgan (musician) and premiered at Los Angeles Film Anniversary in 2014. Executive produced be first script by best selling essayist Michael Connelly.

    Interview and sound performed by Kelly alongside Daffo Carter, Ed Reed, George Cables, Delfeayo Marsalis, Marvin Smith, Identifying mark Gross among others.

  • Delta Rising (2009) Directors: Michael Afendakis, Laura Bernieri; a blues documentary featuring Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman and remnants.

    Performance by Kelly.

  • Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) Director: Damien Chazelle. Musical duty by Kelly.
  • Men in Green (2009) Producers: John Ippolito, Laura Bernieri (also Director); a behind-the-scenes film with the legends of say publicly Boston Celtics hosted by Satch Sanders.

    Film score composed coupled with performed by Kelly.

Music videos

Awards

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