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I Concentrate On You
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I Concentrate On You
Released: Apr 26, 2005
Label: Maxjazz

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  • Genre: Experimental / Jazz / Swing

    Location New York, New York, US

    Profile Views: 41549

    Last Login: 12/3/2008

    Member Since 5/21/2006

    Website http://www.denaderose.com

    Record Label MaxJazz

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    DENA DEROSE Jazz pianist and vocalist DeRose began formal piano training at the age of three after her mother heard her pick out melodies on a toy chord organ. She studied classical music into high school but by 17, was so compelled by jazz that she would sneak out of Binghamton once or twice a week and drive four hours into New York City to hear idols like Hank Jones, Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller (now her label mate) perform. In 1989 through 1991, Ms. DeRose had two surgeries on her right hand for carpel tunnel syndrome and arthritis. Not being able to play the piano forced her to find a creative outlet that lead to an unknown talent and love for singing. By 1991, DeRose returned to playing the piano and moved to New York City to build her jazz career. As a pianist and vocalist, Ms. DeRose has performed with the Ray Brown Trio, the Clark Terry Quintet, Benny Golson, Billy Hart, Ray Drummond, Bill Henderson, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Mark Murphy, Lewis Nash, Don Braden, Rufus Reid, Slide Hampton, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, Steve Davis (trom.), Akira Tana, Kenny Washington, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Gene Bertoncini, to name a few. Dena and her trio have been featured at the annual IAJE jazz conference, the Monterey Jazz Festival (CA), the North Sea Jazz Festival (the Netherlands), The Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel), The Estoril Jazz Festival (Portugal), The Ancona Jazz Festival (Italy), the San Francisco Jazz Festival, The Kansas City Jazz and Blues Festival, Jazz Standard (NYC), Yoshi’s, (SF) Jazz Alley (Seattle), Smoke (NYC), the Blue Note (NYC), Body and Soul, and Swing Hall (Tokyo), and many more. An experienced music educator, DeRose is the head of the vocal jazz department of The University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria and is on the faculty at the Prince Claus Conservatoire of Music in the Netherlands. She teaches every summer, and has for the past 12 years, at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in Palo Alto, CA. Other jazz camps include Jazz Camp West (CA), The Rotterdam/North Sea's Summer Jazz School(the Nederlands), Interplay Jazz Camp (Mass.), and other workshops/clinics throughout the world. Dena was also selected as a judge for the 2004 Thelonius Monk Competition in Washington, DC, at The Kennedy Center. Selected as a “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” in DOWNBEAT’s 2002 and 2006 and one of ten “Best Female Jazz Vocalists” in DOWNBEAT’s 2006 Critics Poll, DeRose has been featured in the NEW YORK TIMES, L.A. TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, JAZZTIMES, JAZZIZ, THE HARTFORD COURANT, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICAL, SINGER MAGAZINE and on NPR: “Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland”; “Morning Edition”; and on “Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater.” Her self-produced debut recording as a leader, Introducing Dena DeRose, received rave reviews as did her three consecutive CDs, all on Sharp Nine Records: Another World; I Can See Clearly Now; and Love’s Holiday. Her latest CD A Walk In the Park is on the Maxjazz label and has received rave reviews. DeRose and her Trio will have a new CD out in the Fall of '07 on Maxjazz "Live at Jazz Standard"...watch for it!

  • Members

    Dena DeRose: Vocals, piano, arranger, composer Martin Wind: bass Matt Wilson: drums

  • Influences

    Carmen McRae, Elton John, Shirley Horn, Red Garland, Miles Davis, John Lennon, The Bee Gees, Mulgrew Miller, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Phineaus Newborn, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Elvin Jones, Ahmad Jamal, Geri Allen, Louis Armstrong, Wes and Buddy Montgomery, Jon Hendricks, Lucille Ball, John Coltrane, Barry Harris, Clark Terry, Debra Harry, Laurie Anderson, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Lucille Ball, George Benson, Queen, Cream, Liberace, Jimmy Hendrix, Billie Holiday, The Police, the B-52's, Mary Lou Williams, Scott Lafaro, Gene Harris, Kenny Baron, Red Fox, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Flanagan, Keith Jarrett, Bud Powell, Pappa and Philly Joe Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Victor Borge, Jackie Gleason, The Marx Brothers, Billy Higgins, Tootie Heath, Marian McPartland, and so many others....

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