the Denny Berthiaume Trio with Special Guest Vocalist Greta Matassa at Angelica's

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Bell Stage Main Dining Room
Tuesday January 20th- 7:15pm

*Special Guest vocalist Greta Matassa

"Matassa's performance was a marvel of virtuosity." —Los Angeles Times

Greta Matassa is one of the most talented singers working in jazz today. She has been voted "Northwest Vocalist of the Year" by Earshot Jazz seven times in 15 years!.

Greta has been a mainstay on Seattle's Jazz stages for many years and with her recent successful dates at New York's Dizzy's Club at Lincoln Center, tours of Russia, Singapore and Hawaii and Japan, Greta's sound is now reaching new audiences. Greta has released seven CD's on the respected jazz label Origin Records and a DVD live concert with guitarist Mimi Fox. Her latest cd "I Wanna be Loved" Resonance Records was critically acclaimed....

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Description:
Bell Stage Main Dining Room
Tuesday January 20th- 7:15pm

*Special Guest vocalist Greta Matassa

"Matassa's performance was a marvel of virtuosity." —Los Angeles Times

Greta Matassa is one of the most talented singers working in jazz today. She has been voted "Northwest Vocalist of the Year" by Earshot Jazz seven times in 15 years!.

Greta has been a mainstay on Seattle's Jazz stages for many years and with her recent successful dates at New York's Dizzy's Club at Lincoln Center, tours of Russia, Singapore and Hawaii and Japan, Greta's sound is now reaching new audiences. Greta has released seven CD's on the respected jazz label Origin Records and a DVD live concert with guitarist Mimi Fox. Her latest cd "I Wanna be Loved" Resonance Records was critically acclaimed.

Greta is also a respected and generous teacher. She has been on faculty at Jazz Camp West, Drayton Harbor Jazz Festival and The Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. She has a thriving private teaching practice and is releasing an instuctional e-book in 2014 and new CD is coming in 2015.

"Boppish, Snappy and conversational"- Downbeat

"One of the best jazz vocalists we have to boast about these days." —John Clayton

"Worldly, gentle, bold, dynamic, Favorites From a Long Walk is a gift for the heart. Greta Matassa is one of America's finest singers, and stands firmly among the best in today's jazz." —Jazz Review

"Greta Matassa moves from triumph to triumph." —Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times

" She can give Ms. Streisand a run for it! Seattle times

"Matassa is a Seattle treasure." Seattle Times

"Her scatting is as confident, nimble an energetic as Ella's and her phrasing is hip like Nancy Wilson's" -Earshot Jazz .

More information and reviews can be found on her website, gretamatassa.com.


Tonight's trio features:

Chuck Bennett - bass
Bill Belasco - drums
denny berthiaume - piano


DENNY BERTHIAUME,
piano, grew up outside Washington D.C. and Chicago. He is the only non-California native in the group although San Francisco is his home. He has performed with Bobby McFerrin, Diane Schuur, Joe Williams, Ed Thigpen, Stan Getz, k.d.lang, and Joan Rivers. He recorded 4 albums as co-leader of the successful fusion group Solar Plexus. He has appeared at jazz festivals in Monterey, the Russian River, San Jose, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was professor in literature and music at Foothill College in Los Altos, California (1970-2004) and a published playwright.

Tickets $10.00 on line or $15.00 at the door

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