Marianne Solivan Quartet

Featuring

Marianne Solivan, vocals
Kevin Harris, piano
Ron Mahdi, acoustic bass
Lumanyano Unity Mzi, drums

Marianne Solivan has made a name for herself as a hard-swinging, passionate vocalist who has a commanding stage presence and is able to captivate audiences with her joyous exuberance and wit.  Having performed and recorded with the likes of Christian McBride, Peter Bernstein, Jeremy Pelt, Bruce Barth, Gregory Hutchinson, Johnathan Blake, Xavier Davis, Michael Kanan, Steve Wilson, and Gene Bertoncini, Solivan has been consistently raising the bar for singers of her generation. Solivan’s singing is a mixture of honest storytelling with a modern sense of self and determination.

Since moving to New York in 2007 Solivan has become one of the first-call singers on the scene. Her first consistent “hang” was Smoke Supper Club. Being a part of the scene has been a big part of the learning process, leading to many of her later musical collaborations with Jeremy Pelt, Ugonna Okegwo, Peter Bernstein, Steve Wilson and Lewis Nash. This visibility and consistency on the bandstand opened doors for gigs at the famed Smalls Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Birdland, The Blue Note, and many others.

Solivan is teaching at LaGuardia Community College in Queens New York and the Kimmel Center For Performing Arts in Pennsylvania, as well as running her own Jazz Vocal Workshops.

“The exquisiteness, expression and sentiment of her singing are supreme.  She is well beyond the go-through-the-motions singers of the genre by an enormous margin.” –Jordan Richardson, Blinded by Sound

http://www.mariannesolivanjazz.com/