Lisa Engelken Quintet: (5 PM Show) Little Warrior CD Release Concert! at The Sound Room

Doors at 4:00 pm; $20 in advance; $25 at the door

The Lisa Engelken Quintet
Little Warrior CD Release Concert Event

“If you care to think of a song as a sort of emotional map, I’d say you drive an all-terrain vehicle.”
- Jack, after seeing Lisa’s live show

A not-to-miss concert event!

Lisa Engelken is a force of nature, known for her fearless stage presence, is scheduled to perform two shows at The Sound Room in Oakland, CA.

Join us in celebration of the release of her highly-anticipated jazz album Little Warrior. ...

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Doors at 4:00 pm; $20 in advance; $25 at the door

The Lisa Engelken Quintet
Little Warrior CD Release Concert Event

“If you care to think of a song as a sort of emotional map, I’d say you drive an all-terrain vehicle.”
- Jack, after seeing Lisa’s live show

A not-to-miss concert event!

Lisa Engelken is a force of nature, known for her fearless stage presence, is scheduled to perform two shows at The Sound Room in Oakland, CA.

Join us in celebration of the release of her highly-anticipated jazz album Little Warrior.

Lisa has written, arranged & produced the 11 arresting tracks that will take you on a journey to the heavens above and back to the depths below, painting an aural chiaroscuro of the soul.

Engelken’s sonic palate colors cacophonous and symphonic, then suddenly strips down naked. Consonance and dissonance interweave, swirl and wrestle for position as her voice alternately cuts raw, soars powerful, or simply floats pristine.

With an uncanny emotional depth and technical fluency, Lisa draws upon the brutality and beauty of the human experience, to explore and embrace her angels and demons.

Little Warrior is Engelken’s follow-up to Caravan, named among the “Best of 2010” by the Jazz Journalists Association and includes “From the Earth, Lisa’s exciting lyric version of Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay.”

Where Caravan could be described as “mainstream with a twist,” Little Warrior marks a natural evolution of the singer-arranger’s artistic style that ventures into more complex thematic and harmonic territories. Engelken continues to push the boundaries of the jazz vocal canon, making an edgier, more personal statement that includes four of her original works.

Little Warrior also features “Undertow,” Lisa’s haunting new lyric version of Wayne Shorter’s “Nefertiti” and includes bold new adaptations of works by Abbey Lincoln, The Cars, Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell.

Based in San Francisco, Lisa has shared the stage with such diverse artists as Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Greg Brown, and T-Bone Burnett.

She has appeared at San Jose Jazz Festival, the New York New Music Festival, South-by-Southwest, SFJAZZ Summer Fest and the Fillmore Jazz Festival. Lisa has received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Yitzhak in the rock musical “Hedwig & the Angry Inch.”

Tune in “Morning Cup of Jazz” on KCSM (91 FM), 9 am on Thursday, November 7th to hear Lisa’s interview with radio host Alisa Clancy and to preview tracks from Little Warrior

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