Season 3 of the “Spirit & Music” Concert Series continues in the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) Auditorium with a Dixieland holiday featuring Marina Pacowski and the Joyful Cats with these fabulous cats: Brian Clancy, Corey Gemme, Riley Baker, Scott Whitfield, Conrad Cayman and Marina Pacowski on vocals and piano! Introducing to the world a new project of Dixieland music in tribute to Marina's dad clarinetist.
Marina & the Joyful Cats are a brand-new traditional jazz and swing band based in Los Angeles. With its foundations in the New Orleans tradition, this band also ventures into swing and bebop in a seamless fashion, all the time carrying forward the JOY of making music. Together, they seek to preserve and promote the legacy of the early traditions of jazz and the Great American Songbook while entertaining and EXPANDING the audience for this great music. The genesis of Marina & the Joyful Cats comes straight out of the love of traditional jazz that leader/vocalist/pianist Marina Pacowski gleaned from her clarinetist/saxophonist father in her native France, where she was formulating her own musical destiny....
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Season 3 of the “Spirit & Music” Concert Series continues in the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) Auditorium with a Dixieland holiday featuring Marina Pacowski and the Joyful Cats with these fabulous cats: Brian Clancy, Corey Gemme, Riley Baker, Scott Whitfield, Conrad Cayman and Marina Pacowski on vocals and piano! Introducing to the world a new project of Dixieland music in tribute to Marina's dad clarinetist.
Marina & the Joyful Cats are a brand-new traditional jazz and swing band based in Los Angeles. With its foundations in the New Orleans tradition, this band also ventures into swing and bebop in a seamless fashion, all the time carrying forward the JOY of making music. Together, they seek to preserve and promote the legacy of the early traditions of jazz and the Great American Songbook while entertaining and EXPANDING the audience for this great music. The genesis of Marina & the Joyful Cats comes straight out of the love of traditional jazz that leader/vocalist/pianist Marina Pacowski gleaned from her clarinetist/saxophonist father in her native France, where she was formulating her own musical destiny.
Marina Pacowski, born in France and based in Los Angeles, is Contributing Musician at the PRS, where she created and continues to curate and perform in the Spirit & Music concert series, now in its third season. She is a multi-faceted artist: multi-awarded concert pianist, sought-after accompanist, and jazz vocalist. As a pianist, Marina has toured and performed extensively internationally. Composers write virtuosic pieces for her, and she recorded in the US a piano concerto composed for her by Frank Proto. The International Society of Bassists awarded her the 2017 Best Collaborative Music Award. Vocally, Marina has performed at LA jazz hot spots The Jazz Bakery and The Lighthouse and was featured guest vocalist for a tribute to Kenny Burrell at Catalina Jazz Club. She received a Jazz Excellence Award in 2021 at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s. Marina was also a featured special guest at Catalina in March 2022 for the Salute to Black Legends, paying tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. Her vocal debut CD “Inner Urge” will be released on Summit Records in March 2023, and features jazz luminaries Joel Frahm, John Clayton, Roy McCurdy, Josh Nelson, Jon Mayer, and many others.
Corey Gemme, a native of Los Angeles, picked up the trumpet at about age 10 being inspired first by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, then by listening to a Big Band radio station to which his parents used to listen in the house and in the car. Corey studied music at Pasadena City College and California State University Los Angeles, and has found a niche playing early traditional Jazz from the 1920‘s era and swing music of the 1940‘s. He has performed at countless Traditional Jazz Festivals and events around the country with many groups including the Hot Frogs, Conrad Janis and the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band, Janet Carroll, Johnny Crawford, Dean Mora's Modern Rhythmists, The Black Swan Jazz Band, Jim Cullum's Happy Jazz Band, The Reynolds Brothers', The High Sierra Jazz Band, The Titan Hot Seven, and Banu Gibson.
Brian Clancy has been described as “A young lion with and old soul.” He is an active freelance saxophone and woodwind player in Los Angeles who hails from Texas, where he studied music at the esteemed University of North Texas. His career in California has included performing with Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, Kurt Elling, Eric Reed, the John Daversa Big Band and The Clare Fischer Big Band as well as performing regularly in multiple groups at Disneyland.
Tickets at: Spirit & Music Concert: Christmas in New Orleans with Marina Pacowski
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