Cameron Brown & Sheila Jordan Duo at The Falcon

In 2012 SHEILA JORDAN was named by The National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Jazz Master, honoring her lifetime of extraordinary work...and her extraordinary life!

One of the most consistently creative jazz singers of all time, Sheila Jordan is a superb scat singer, and an emotional interpreter of ballads. George Russell used her on an unusual recording of "You Are My Sunshine" and Jordan was one of the few singers to lead her own Blue Note album (1962). It would be a decade before she appeared on records again, working with Carla Bley, Roswell Rudd, and co-leading a group with Steve Kuhn in the late '70s. Jordan recorded a memorable duet album with bassist Arild Andersen for SteepleChase in 1977, and has since teamed up with bassist Harvie Swartz. ...

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In 2012 SHEILA JORDAN was named by The National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Jazz Master, honoring her lifetime of extraordinary work...and her extraordinary life!

One of the most consistently creative jazz singers of all time, Sheila Jordan is a superb scat singer, and an emotional interpreter of ballads. George Russell used her on an unusual recording of "You Are My Sunshine" and Jordan was one of the few singers to lead her own Blue Note album (1962). It would be a decade before she appeared on records again, working with Carla Bley, Roswell Rudd, and co-leading a group with Steve Kuhn in the late '70s. Jordan recorded a memorable duet album with bassist Arild Andersen for SteepleChase in 1977, and has since teamed up with bassist Harvie Swartz.

By the 1980s, Jordan was performing jazz full-time and gaining long deserved recognition. As a leader , she recorded for East Wind, Grapevine, SteepleChase, Palo Alto, Blackhawk, and Muse, resurfacing in 1999 with Jazz Child.
www.sheilajordanjazz.com

Jazz bassist, composer and educator CAMERON BROWN began his career in the mid-sixties, recording in Europe with George Russell and Don Cherry, who remain life-long influences and inspirations.

Mr. Brown anchored some of the most important groups of the seventies, eighties and nineties, with Sheila Jordan, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp and Beaver Harris were his mentors and bandleaders. He has enjoyed special relationships with master drummers: Art Blakey, Dannie Richmond, Philly Joe Jones, Edward Blackwell, Idris Muhammad and Joe Chambers.
www.cameronbrownmusic.com

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