Denise Perrier Trio with Houston Person at San Jose Jazz Winter Fest at Cafe Stritch

San Jose Jazz Winter Fest 2015
$25 advance, $30 at the door

Expertly in control of a rich contralto voice that allows her the ability to sing ballads and blues with equal artistry, vocalist Denise Perrier has a very welcoming straight-ahead style that concentrates on jazz standards yet can adds blues and Latin for variety.

Known as “the Voice with a Heart,” Perrier was born in Louisiana but moved with her family to the East Bay Area at the age of five. She’s has spent most of her thirty-year career performing in the San Francisco Bay Area and touring Europe, Latin America, and Asia. With her fifth album, Denise Perrier and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, she has moved to a higher level of artistry and popularity, hearkening back to a time when the singer told the story and left the rest to the instrumentalists. Perrier was previously featured on the Grammy® nominated album Color Me Blue with Brother Jack McDuff....

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San Jose Jazz Winter Fest 2015
$25 advance, $30 at the door

Expertly in control of a rich contralto voice that allows her the ability to sing ballads and blues with equal artistry, vocalist Denise Perrier has a very welcoming straight-ahead style that concentrates on jazz standards yet can adds blues and Latin for variety.

Known as “the Voice with a Heart,” Perrier was born in Louisiana but moved with her family to the East Bay Area at the age of five. She’s has spent most of her thirty-year career performing in the San Francisco Bay Area and touring Europe, Latin America, and Asia. With her fifth album, Denise Perrier and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, she has moved to a higher level of artistry and popularity, hearkening back to a time when the singer told the story and left the rest to the instrumentalists. Perrier was previously featured on the Grammy® nominated album Color Me Blue with Brother Jack McDuff.

For this performance, Perrier will be joined by tenor saxophonist Houston Person, with whom she made the gorgeous recording The Second Time Around. Person has recorded more than 75 albums as bandleader, and has recorded with Lena Horne, Lou Rawls and Horace Silver. He is perhaps best known as the longtime musical collaborator with the late Etta Jones.

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