Temple university Jazz Band and Lab Band

featuring luminary jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Tickets: $35-45, $10 for students

Click above to view a quick collection of images from last year's performance by the Temple University Jazz Band and Lab Band featuring jazz legend Benny Golson.

 

The Temple University Jazz Band (Terell Stafford, director) and Lab Band (Greg Kettinger, director) return to the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, this time with guest artist Karrin Allyson.

 

Allyson knows what jazz singing is all about...sometimes tender, sometimes tough, (she) always strikes the right chord.

— Associated Press

The stuff that shivers are made of, both innocent, sexy and world weary.

— Washington Post

 

A three-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated artist, Karrin Allyson has been winning over fans and critics alike. And she's been doing so just about everywhere jazz can be heard or seen since 1992. That was the year Allyson assembled her Kansas City-based rhythm section, borrowed funds from her family and headed into the studio. The result was her critically-acclaimed first album, I Didn't Know About You.

Over the years, Karrin Allyson has recorded a series of eleven CDs for Concord Records, each of which have showcased her astonishing breadth of repertoire, from standards by Gershwin and Porter to Brazilian bossa nova to samba and Thelonious Monk. She has also taken on French and Brazilian music (From Paris to Rio), the genius of John Coltrane (Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane) and the blues (In Blue).

Find out more about Karrin Allyson on her website, where you can hear clips off of her recent album, Imagina, and read about her newest release titled By Request: The Best of Karrin Allyson.

The award winning Temple University Jazz Band has performed at major festivals and concert venues with internationally renowned artists and has made regular appearances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and the Kimmel Center.