studying vocal jazz since fall of 2001
with fond memories of Gram and Gramps playing organ and ukulele, respectively; Mom singing; playing viola in early grades plus choral singing and modern dancing at Dorset church; piano study; cornet in HS jazz band; Indianola choral to Seattle jazz with much appreciation to --
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,
Monk,
Mingus,
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway,
Nick Drake,
Elliott Smith,
Radiohead,
Morphine,
Low --
Locally: Andy Shaw, Kelley Johnson and John Hansen, Katie King, Paul Rucker, Hans Teuber, Jeff Johnson, Rochelle House, Nancy King and Steve Christofferson, Dawn Clement, Geoff Harper, Carolyn Graye, Aria Prame, Deborah Shelton, Paul Sawyer, Jerome Gray, and anyone i have the fortune to play with or hear well --
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;
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; yoga with Craig;
walking in woods anywhere, near water
Ms. Wicks found her passion for jazz in the fall of 2001, when she took her first jazz singing workshop with Katie King. She has continued to pursue the study of vocal jazz since then with the area’s finest jazz musicians: Kelley Johnson and John Hansen, Andy Shaw, Nancy King and Steve Christofferson (at Centrum’s week-long jazz workshops), Carolyn Graye (ensemble work), Deborah Shelton, and Jerome Gray. She improvises with a group called Vocal Bliss and has performed at Café Campagne, Lottie’s Lounge, Egan’s in Ballard, Piazza’s wine bar, as well as Tula’s and Columbia City Theatre (and for many a friend’s wedding). From April 2007 to August 2008 she hosted the weekly vocal jazz jam at Egan’s.
She is currently working on a recording made February 22, 2009, with Bill Anschell, Jeff Johnson, Byron Vannoy, and Hans Teuber.
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The Canal was Cool. Eliane told me that when she was playing my album mixes at a party in Brazil, people couldn't believe you weren't Brasileira singing Portuguese! Great work, Carrie!
Saturday May 16 ELDRIDGE GRAVY & THE COURT SUPREME ALTERED STATES OF FUNK ORKESTAR ZIRKONIUM Our CD release party, at last! Snap up your own shiny copy of US IS WHAT TIME IT IS, our debut release! With Altered States of Funk (Seattle's venerable P-Funk torch carriers) and Orkestar Zirkonium (a massive, joyous Balkan style marching band who forecast a 95% chance of partying in the streets) Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave NW, 9PM, 21+, $10
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Tickets are available from your helpful clerk at Sonic Boom records or online at TicketWeb .
Hey Carrie!!! SO EXCITED tO hear YOU ARE GOING FOR IT!!! Thats awesome your tracks on here are very lovely (but of course they are because you are singing!)!!! KEEP GOING!!!! KEEP SINGING AND KEEP SMILING!!! Bernie aka Dette (of the Tish and Dette duo!).....
US 3 GALS just think you are the BEST!!!
PS check out my pics you will find a few of Owen (mostly on the first album...but also some scattered about the other albums! Hes 3 yrs old and is just the brightest ray of Sunshine 4 all of us and we adore him!!!
Apart from being one of those comments you rightfully hate with all your divine powers this also happens to be...well, my stupid attempt to leave a trace in your frontal lobe that'll last more than 10 seconds. I don't believe it'll work. Then again, I believe in unbelievable things.
The album. Download it. Either on iTunes or for free. Let it breathe on your playlist for a while. It will grace your chips, wires, ears. It'll make your aura shine. Then again, maybe you don't like presents. Which is perfectly fine.
Carrie - I'm so tickled that you were at the release party at the Tractor! Thankyou! I'm bummed I didn't get a chance to say hi. It was a good crowd but hard to move around! see you very soon xo Andrea
Good monring. I have finished mastering. I am meeting with L john Hubbard today. Are you still willing to look at my text? Let us schedule our session to look at your tunes?
Bonjour Carrie, je viens tout juste de rentrer. My mind is still in hte Alpes, my family and the cheeses. I am looking forward to hearing our story on Wed.
Hi Carrie, Good to have you back. Just wanted to drop a note and let you know I have uploaded a few tunes onto my page. Hope you enjoy them. See you at Egan's. Shiri.
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