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Jackie Ryan & Larry Vuckovich
Multifaceted, soulful, and elegant vocalist Jackie Ryan stands out on the international jazz scene as one of the best. She is equally at home with swinging jazz phrasing, be-bop vocalese, the blues, as well as funky boogaloo rhythms, singing in several languages. Jackie and pianist Larry Vuckovich have developed a close musical chemistry going back 30 years. They'll explore classic standards and rarely heard gems, among many others in Jackie's expansive repertoire.
$25 General Admission
We are offering a limited number of tickets to attend this performance in person. Advance purchase is recommended. Masking is encouraged but no longer required.
JACKIE RYAN
Jackie Ryan "is one of the outstanding jazz vocalists of her generation...She is the thoroughbred vocal equivalent of the Triple Crown, rivaling the dexterous sass of Sarah Vaughan, the instinctive smarts of Carmen McRae and the scintillating verve of Diana Krall." - Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times
Jackie Ryan was born in the San Francisco Bay Area to a Mexican mother and an Irish father, who were both professional singers in their youth, and therefore grew up in a home that was naturally full of music. Her father was a classically trained baritone and her mother sang in the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara. She started singing at the age of four and performing onstage professionally at the age of 15. She sings in several languages, and her versatility in styles ranging from belting out the blues to Jazz Bebop; to the delicate Portuguese language nuances of Brazilian Bossa Novas and rhythmic Sambas, to romantic boleros sung in Spanish; to the emotive ballads and vibrant swing standards of The Great American Songbook, have won the hearts of audiences worldwide.
She has performed, recorded and/or toured with the top jazz instrumentalists in the world, including Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, The Jeff Hamilton Trio, John Clayton, Terry Gibbs, Jon Hendricks, Buddy DeFranco, Mike Wofford, Jon Mayer, Larry Vuckovich, Shelly Berg, Amina Figarova, Roy McCurdy, Gerald Clayton, Eric Alexander, Cyrus Chestnut, and Paquito D'Rivera to name a few. Each of Jackie's CDs have been in the top of the Jazzweek national radio tracking chart, as well as her most recent three back to back # 1 CDs, which stayed in the number one position for several weeks each. Her most recent recording "Recuerdos De Mi Madre", dedicated to her mother, debuted at #1 on the International Adult Contemporary streaming chart, PlayMPE.
She has performed internationally in clubs throughout Europe: 8 years a regular at the famed Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, Amsterdam, Spain, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia, to sold-out appearances at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center Dizzy's Club and Birdland, the Bay Area's SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium; and Yoshi's, and well as many major jazz festivals from Telluride to The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Her live shows have been described by the critics as 'magnificent, 'gripping' and 'extraordinary', and consistently leave audiences in standing ovations and encores. She is a natural born entertainer with that rare ability to reach out and touch each and every heart, no matter how large the audience. jackieryanmusic.com
LARRY VUCKOVICH
Larry Vuckovich has won acclaim from critics and jazz audiences for his deeply imaginative style and repertoire heard at prestigious North American and European jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals. He is as equally at home in world music/classically influenced modal jazz as he is in hard-swinging bebop, post-bop, contemporary jazz, and down-home blues. The New York Times notes that his unique outlook and collection of influences "set him apart from most pianists who are heard regularly in New York". The Village Voice comments on his "book of piano gems that will keep you guessing". The Toronto Globe and Mail calls him "a musician who sits apart from the rest by virtue...of his taste for both the exotic and the exquisite".
Cited by piano legend Barry Harris as "one of the premier West Coast pianists", Mr. Vuckovich brought his Jazz-Latin Trio/Quartet, featured on his two recent piano trio/quartet CDs, to Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in New York on a recent East Coast tour. On the same tour, Marian McPartland invited him to interview and perform with her on her Piano Jazz show, broadcast to national and global NPR affiliates. A versatile pianist and leader, Mr. Vuckovich's performances have gone from soloist at the Fazioli piano series in San Francisco, New York and Chicago, to conducting an 18-piece band, which sold out the legendary 600-seat 2007 Jazz at Filoli show in Woodside, California.
Among his last three recordings for Tetrachord: Something Special placed #3 on JazzWeek NPR (National Public Radio) reporting charts. His earlier recordings for his label: High Wall: Real Life Film Noir and Street Scene, placed in the Top 10 of the JazzWeek NPR charts, and were heard regularly on XM Satellite radio. larryvuckovich.com