Karrin Allison

Jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson with appear at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood on Thursday, May 28th throught Sunday, May 31st. The three-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated artist 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? I Didn't Know About You. The reaction was immediate. "Stunning debut! Irresistible twists of melody and inflection," wrote veteran jazz critic Neil Tesser in Playboy Magazine, placing the young singer in the company of legends Ella Fitzgerald and Shirley Horn. Critics and jazz lovers from coast to coast echoed the news. Allyson is a major talent that will drive you wild. Her latest Album, Imagina, features the music of Brazil [Click here for a Jazz Police review ].

In My Life

“Charleston has the chops that can leave us in awe, but always makes it about the song, which in the end is the greatest compliment that one can pay a singer.” —Bob Blumenthal (liner note, In My Life) 

Few musicians of any genre can count Emmy and Peabody Awards in their resumes, but Rondi Charleston’s path to the stages of top jazz clubs was hardly the norm. The multi-talented Chicago native “heard Miles Davis records in utero, met Duke Ellington when I was six, and would find classic novels next to my cereal bowl," she recalls via Bob Blumenthal’s liner notes for her latest CD/DVD release, In My Life. A preview was released in late 2007, and now the Bennett Studios CD and accompanying DVD, recorded Live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, is released in full on Rondi’s EmmaMuse label. In celebration of the release, Rondi and her band perform at Catalina’s in Los Angeles on May 20th; at Dizzy's in San Diego on May 22nd; at Dazzle in Denver on May 23rd; at the Dakota in Minneapolis on May 24th; at Blue Wisp in Cincinatti on May 25th; and reprise the live recording date at Dizzy’s in New York on June 1st.