THE SHOWROOM SESSIONS: Streaming LIVE from Piedmont Piano Company
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Nicolas Bearde
Virgo Birthday Celebration
Vocalist Nicolas Bearde, pianist Glen Pearson, and bassist Ruth Davies come together to celebrate another "29th Birthday" with musical selections in preparation for a new album.
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Singer/Songwriter/Actor and Educator, Nicolas Bearde is an award winning vocalist who has recorded 6 CD's on his own Right Groove Records label. His most recent, “I Remember You : The Music of Nat King Cole" released in 2019, featured special guest and sax great, Eric Alexander. It rose quickly to the Top 20 on the Jazz Week Charts, garnering rave reviews at home and abroad.
Nicolas is also the featured vocalist and narrator with sax legend Vincent Herring's "Story of Jazz Orchestra" a 10 piece ensemble of jazz luminaries, who travel the world presenting Jazz music's 100+ year history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lmq1LGN8i0 | nicolasbearde.com
Glen Pearson is both a noted pianist as well as the current head of music studies at the College of Alameda. He began studying piano at age six and was playing professionally by age fifteen. He has appeared on stage, television and on recordings with such notables as Regina Belle, Jimmy Scott, Diane Reeves, Marlena Shaw and Bobby Hutcherson, and served for eleven years as the Musical Director for the World Renowned Boy's Choir of Harlem. He is currently the pianist for the world-renowned Count Basie Band.
Bassist, Ruth Davies has performed with such jazz and blues greats as Keb'Mo', Clark Terry, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, and Little Jimmy Scott and toured the world with legendary blues artist Charles Brown for 10 years. As an educator, Ruth believes in teaching and bringing music to the public schools. She has been on the faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop for 17 years and has had a very successful "Ruth Davies Blues Night" series at the Stanford Jazz Festival. Her discography (including several Platinum and Grammy-winning CDs) covers various jazz and blues styles as well as movie soundtracks.