Vocalist, pianist and composer Sacha Boutros is one of America’s most outstanding young jazz artists. Whatever Boutros sings — and she can sing anything from Latin jazz, jazz standards, and bossa nova, to swing, adult contemporary, and pop, and in seven languages — she does so with a sensual, yet breezy flourish. The multilingual San Diego native can also play serious piano and is trained in Bel Canto opera. A darling of the music industry, with a huge, international cult following spanning generations, Boutros earned a Grammy nod for her 2008 “Simply Sacha” (Diva Latina Productions) album. The critically acclaimed, hit album featured famous, in-demand session players and sidemen, Chuchito Valdés, Geoffrey Keezer and Red Holloway, a hot jazz-pop line, and major crossover potential. Her music, described as hip, Latin lounge jazz, has skyrocketed to the top of the charts and been named as one of the “Top 10 Jazz and Latin Jazz albums of 2008” in Japan and America. With three major recordings under her belt so far, including a revelatory live album released a year ago (recorded in Honolulu), Boutros continues to attract attention wherever she tours, whether it’s in San Diego, Hawaii, Tokyo, New York City, or Paris. Since first embarking on a career as a professional singer and musician at age 20, Boutros has already opened for and worked with many heavy hitters, including Julio Iglesias, Marvin Hamlisch, Patti Austin, Chubby Checker, the late James Moody, Ann Hampton Callaway, Claudio Roditi, Red Holloway, Karrin Allyson, Frankie Laine, Geoffrey Keezer, Kay Starr, Herb Jeffries, and countless others....
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Vocalist, pianist and composer Sacha Boutros is one of America’s most outstanding young jazz artists. Whatever Boutros sings — and she can sing anything from Latin jazz, jazz standards, and bossa nova, to swing, adult contemporary, and pop, and in seven languages — she does so with a sensual, yet breezy flourish. The multilingual San Diego native can also play serious piano and is trained in Bel Canto opera. A darling of the music industry, with a huge, international cult following spanning generations, Boutros earned a Grammy nod for her 2008 “Simply Sacha” (Diva Latina Productions) album. The critically acclaimed, hit album featured famous, in-demand session players and sidemen, Chuchito Valdés, Geoffrey Keezer and Red Holloway, a hot jazz-pop line, and major crossover potential. Her music, described as hip, Latin lounge jazz, has skyrocketed to the top of the charts and been named as one of the “Top 10 Jazz and Latin Jazz albums of 2008” in Japan and America. With three major recordings under her belt so far, including a revelatory live album released a year ago (recorded in Honolulu), Boutros continues to attract attention wherever she tours, whether it’s in San Diego, Hawaii, Tokyo, New York City, or Paris. Since first embarking on a career as a professional singer and musician at age 20, Boutros has already opened for and worked with many heavy hitters, including Julio Iglesias, Marvin Hamlisch, Patti Austin, Chubby Checker, the late James Moody, Ann Hampton Callaway, Claudio Roditi, Red Holloway, Karrin Allyson, Frankie Laine, Geoffrey Keezer, Kay Starr, Herb Jeffries, and countless others.
Promoting the new album they will record this week Sacha Boutros returns to Jazz at The Kitano to headline a Saturday night and team up with the best that Jazz has to offer including Lewis Nash who is "Perhaps the most talented drummer of his generation, equally effective in small group or big band."– Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz and Peter Washington.He is legend in his own and has collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Ray Brown, Gerald Wilson, Horace Silver, Ron Carter, Red Holloway, Hank Jones, Benny Carter, Milt Jackson, Art Farmer, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Heath, and John Lewis. In addition, he has recorded with Willie Nelson, Natalie Cole, Bette Midler and Linda Ronstadt just to name a few.
Peter Washington who could very well be the most recorded bassist of his generation and is on over 350 recordings and has played live with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson. Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Benny Carter, Hank Jones, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Burrell, Phil Woods, Cedar Walton, Joe Henderson, Ray Bryant, Frank Wess, Clark Terry, Lionel Hampton, Charles McPherson, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes, the Newport All Stars, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, Gerald Wilson,Lou Donaldson, Barry Harris, Lew Tabakin, Sweets Edison, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, Sir Simon Rattle and the Birmingham Symphony, Richard Wyands, Teddy Edwards, Johnny Coles, Frank Morgan, and more...
Pianist John Di Martino, a favorite to Japanese audiences with his award winning recordings, is noted for his versatility, John has performed and recorded with such notables as Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Ray Baretto, Tony Bennett, Joe Lovano, David "Fat Head" Newman, Pat Martino, Paquito D'Rivera and Houston Person and has played and arranged on countless Grammy nominated albums.
Jazz at Kitano
66 Park Ave (E. 38th Street)
New York, NY
Reservation Advised
Tel 212 885 7119
Cover Charge $25.00, $15.00 minimum on food or beverage
Great American and Pan Asian menu
Early diners 7 pm receive preferred seating
Sets 8 pm & 10 pm
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