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Ill Wind

Album: I'll Get Around To It

Released: Apr 20, 2010

Label: Origin Records

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Ill Wind
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General Info

Genre: Acoustic / Jazz
Location Seattle, Washington, US
Profile Views: 18231
Last Login: 12/14/2010
Member Since 11/29/2006
Website www.carriewicks.net
Record Label Origin/OA2 Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
..When Carrie Wicks steps onto the stage, her shy, demure manner gives you the impression that she just came from her day job as a librarian. Then she counts her band off, closes her eyes, and proceeds to mellifluously swing her butt off, unassumingly drawing the audience in all the while. Her tone puts to mind the perfect glass of earthy, red wine coupled with the most luxurious piece of dark chocolate at the end of a long day. At ease and unhurried, she meanders in and out of a medium swing, taking notice of every detail, seemingly to lag a mile behind the beat to examine the intricacies of an embellished chord, only to magically appear right in time without missing a step. ....During her first vocal jazz workshop, almost a decade ago, Ms. Wicks had a lightbulb-above-the-head moment and has continued to pursue the study of vocal jazz since then with the finest jazz musicians from Seattle and beyond. She improvises with a group called Vocal Bliss and has performed at Café Campagne, Lottie’s Lounge, Egan’s, Sip wine restaurant, Lucid, as well as Tula’s and Columbia City Theater (and for many a wedding). From April 2007 to August 2008, she hosted the weekly vocal jazz jam at Egan’s. She also sings with the vocal quartet, Venus d'Bop, as well as with commingling duos and trios. .. ..Her debut recording, made on February 22, 2009, with Bill Anschell, Jeff Johnson, Byron Vannoy, and Hans Teuber, was released by OA2 Records in April 2010 and can be found on Amazon and here:.. .. http://www.oa2records.com/oa2/recordings/recording.php?TitleID=22065 .. ..For booking or questions, please email: carrie(underscore)wicks(at)yahoo(dot)com. Especially available and appropriate for private parties or wine bars!.. ........ ..create your own ..MySpace Layouts.. like me by using ..nUCLEArcENTURy...COM's ..MySpace Profile Editor..!.. ........
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Influences
..with fond VT memories of Gram and Gramps playing organ and ukulele, respectively; Mom singing; playing viola in early grades plus choral singing and modern dancing at the Dorset church; piano study; cornet in HS jazz band; Indianola choral to Seattle jazz with much appreciation to many wonderful teachers and -- .. .. Billie, Blossom and Ray Brown, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Shirley Horn: esp. first Mercury Records, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, Elvis (which one?), Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz, Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, Betty Carter, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling, Luciana Souza, Dominique Eade, Rickie Lee Jones: Pop Pop, Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius: Hejira, Jeff Buckley: Grace, Eva Cassidy, Miles Davis: Sketches in Spain, Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Jimmy Scott, Andy Bey, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, Madeleine Peyroux, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, Morphine, Low -- .. .. Art: Agnes Martin philosophy, b&w photography, Bill Traylor folk art, Art Hansen sketchings, A Ceramic Continuum: functional aesthetic pottery like that from Amy, Gaylen Hansen, Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, James Martin, Tom Fehsenfeld, Randi Starup; Poetry: Hayden Carruth set and bound by Tricia, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, Galway Kinnell, Elizabeth Bishop, Wendell Berry; Fiction: Susan Griffin, Joan Didion, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, Milan Kundera, David Sedaris, short fiction from The New Yorker; Places: Dorset, Vermont; Summit, NJ; Minneapolis/St. Paul; Spain; Indianola, P.T. and Seattle, WA; volunteering for Real Change; walking in woods anywhere, near water ..
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