All songs...
Randy Halberstadt on Piano
"I Wish I Knew"
Steve Korn - Drums
Darin Clendenin - Piano
Clipper Anderson - Bass
Influences
Eileen Manzin (Rest in peace, my beloved mentor and friend), Nancy Wilson, Erykah Badu, Bill Evans, Jill Scott, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Duke Ellington, Goapele, Joao Gilberto, Shirley Horn, Carmen McCrae, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk, Sade, Ray Brown, Aaliyah, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Soul Merchants, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Etta James, D'Angelo, Chick Corea and all that underground hip hop.
My CD is now available at CDBABY! www.cdbaby.com/isabelladugraf ---
Music education, from middle school and high school jazz groups to community based music programs, has been instrumental in the progression and cultivation of Isabella Du Graf’s talent. Isabella started performing jazz standards at the age of 13 with the local school jazz bands in Seattle. She is currently a third year student in the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, majoring in Music, Jazz Performance.
During the breaks from her school, Isabella is often collaborating and performing various genres from jazz to hip hop. The Seattle community has been generous enough to feature her at many jazz clubs and venues around the town.
Isabella has been recognized for her many achievements:
2007 Downbeat College Student Outstanding Performance; 2006 Downbeat High School Student Music Award Winner. Wynton Marsalis awarded Isabella the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Vocalist Award in New York at the elite Essentially Ellington jazz competition in May 2006. That summer, she performed the National Anthem in front of her largest audience yet, the NFL Seahawks-Raiders game at the Quest Stadium. In 2005, she won the jazz vocalist competition hosted by the Seattle Kobe Sister City Assoc. at Dimitrious’ Jazz Alley. This earned her the opportunity to travel to Kobe and perform with Myoto Ozone at a special concert for the centennial celebration of jazz in Japan. In September 2005, she was featured on the cover of the Earshot Jazz Magazine. That same year, she competed in the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow Idaho, and won the award for outstanding Alto Vocalist. In 2004, she was a featured singer in the More Music at the Moore Theater; shared the stage with singer-composer Bobby McFerrin. She cut her first CD at the ripe age of 14 (Blame It on My Youth).
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Isabella is humble about how much she has accomplished, but isn’t resting on the comforts of early success. She continues to work hard on her craft and glean as much information as she can to take her passion as far as possible. Perhaps more impressive is how Isabella has carved out a place for herself in the Seattle music scene as a jazz vocalist on the rise, with chops and soulful confidence to win over even the most exacting and critical audience.
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"Du Graf channels the sultry and heartbreaking soulfulness of jazz vocalist Carmen McRae..." -Earshot Jazz
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"Du Graf has the chops and soulful confidence to win over even the most exacting and critical audiences - even those abroad". -Earshot Jazz
To the 206, This show is to keep me on the streets and out of jail, please come through and help support, the goal is 250$ or higher, which is needed with the utmost urgency, otherwise a 6 month jail term is in my imediate future, which inturn will leave me homeless, due to my criminal record, the court system is trying to put me in a financial bind that on my own cannot be met due to the slim-ass time requirement which is the 10th of july, please 206, keep me free,
I am fabulouso! Its kind of you to ask...
Today I had my portfolio review with the chair of the art department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. They offered me a full ride. What a feeling! I am so juiced for the grind in '09!
Aside from the breaking news I have been dedicating nuxh of my time and energy in sharpening my craft in music&video creations also fund raising for the implementationt of a dope web concept Z.Self and I have been working on for the last year or so. I could go in depth and all but I'll spare you the jargon for now. Aside from all the biz just enjoying the good weather with good friends and family.
Im what direction is the wind blowin you these days Ms. Diva Dugraf?
FOLLOW ME AND I WILL FOLLOW YOU WWW.TWITTER.COM/0NLY1WIZER GO HEAD AND LEND YOUR OPTICAL VISION IN ON SOME ENTERTAINMENT. IF YOU’VE ALREADY SENT IT…THANK YOU, IF YOU HAVENT SEEN IT; THANK YOU FOR SEEING IT NOW. MUCH LUVE ON THE LUVE SHOWN.
ONLY1WIZER AMEN THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR "SEATTLE WATCH ME" ONLY1WIZER FEAT. JAVIERRE.
ONLY1WIZER’S “HOW I GO/ EL AMOR DE JESUS”
IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE; GO HEAD AND DROP A VIDEO COMMENT ON YOUTUBE BABY!! MUCH LOVE ALWAYS.
hey! i met you a while back at the Big World Breaks show at Nectar where you performed, and i performed with Khingz. Anyway, i was just at Aaron Walker Loud's house and i heard the song u did and i have to say...it was amazing! your voice is so beautiful.
GO HEAD AND LEND YOUR OPTICAL VISION IN ON SOME ENTERTAINMENT. IF YOU’VE ALREADY SENT IT…THANK YOU, IF YOU HAVENT SEEN IT; THANK YOU FOR SEEING IT NOW. MUCH LUVE ON THE LUVE SHOWN.
ONLY1WIZER AMEN THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR "SEATTLE WATCH ME" ONLY1WIZER FEAT. JAVIERRE.
ONLY1WIZER’S “HOW I GO/ EL AMOR DE JESUS”
IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE; GO HEAD AND DROP A VIDEO COMMENT ON YOUTUBE BABY!! MUCH LOVE ALWAYS.
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