TICKETS
Reserved: $65, $55.
General Admission: $35 ($30 advance rate until 3/23).
Students: $10.
Doors open for seating one hour prior to showtime.
A veteran musician for over 30 years, one can hear the entire spectrum of jazz singing in the performance of vocalist Scotty Wright.
With a warm, rich-toned voice and relaxed delivery, Scotty possesses a unique sound that is deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. His style features harmonic sophistication, a playful rhythmic approach, and insightful phrasing of the lyric.
When Scotty takes the audience into the world of the blues, there is no doubt he has been there before.
While he’s singing a romantic ballad, the listener feels each note, hearing and believing every word.
And in his uptempo songs, he generates energy that ignites the room, especially during his thrilling forays into wordless ‘scat’ singing.
Scotty’s repertoire includes interpretations of classic songs by Gershwin, Porter, Kern, and Rodgers & Hart; jazz standards by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, and Billy Strayhorn, as well as his own well-crafted songs.
In everything he sings, one is certain that the song has never been heard quite the same way before, nor will it be again. It is this element of the unexpected, what Scotty calls the ‘music of the moment,’ that is the essence of great jazz.
While the masters of jazz singing inform his style – Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy Scott, Carmen McRae, Johnny Hartman, and Billie Holiday, among others – Scotty’s way with a song is unmistakably his own.
ABOUT AL DOWNING TAMPA BAY JAZZ ASSOCIATION
The mission of the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association, Inc., a 501C3 non-profit organization, is to promote jazz and to encourage the appreciation of jazz, its origin, and evolution. By sponsoring concerts and providing educational opportunities and scholarships, the association preserves and perpetuates jazz as an original American art form. Go to WWW.ALDOWNINGJAZZ.COM for more information.
Presented by Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association and The Palladium at SPC.
