Bill Evans, Richard Tee, Dave Grusin, Bruce Hornsby, McCoy Tyner, Ray Charles, Michel Camillo, Hugo Fattoruso, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Dr. John, Diana Krall
JUDY PALMA -keyboardist, composer, arranger & producer, began playing music at the age of four and gave her first concert when she was five which included pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and a piece she had written.
She was accepted at the High School of Performing Arts and studied composition and classical piano under the direction of Chopin specialist Augustin Anievas and world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman at Brooklyn College.
After graduation Judy branched out into other musical directions, performing with such artists as Rupert Holmes ( "The Pina Colada Song" ) Deborah Gibson, Darlene Love, Freda Payne, Mickey Dolenz ,Paul Sorvino, Tony Danza, Lana Cantrell, Florence Henderson and Mary Wilson of the original Supremes.
Judy is also an established NYC session musician and has written and played music for Sesame Street as well as several jingles which include Barbie, AT&T, and an on screen appearance for the 2005 Dentyne Fire commercial. Broadway Shows have included the smash hit, Hairspray and The Wedding Singer. She has performed all around the world with R&B legend Ben E. King ( Stand By Me) and co-produced and arranged his upcoming release which contains two songs that she co-wrote.
Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends! We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too. We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy. Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other. We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large. What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Hello Judy, Thanks for the add and friendship! Love the tracks and the Jazz sounds GREAT! We wish you great music filled summer. Hope all is well and Good Luck in all you do! Wenzday Falls
Hey Talented Lady, I don't know why it took me this long to realize who YOU were!!! OMG, I've heard so much about you from Deena singing your praises, and still didn't realize that it was you!!
Anyway, so happy to be friends here too....have a wonderful weekend and would LOVE to get together sometime-maybe hang, do some writing? XO, MG
hello Judy welcome i hope you enjoy listen to my piano solo improvisations and afrojazz tunes... much love & happiness to you and... happy new year 2009 friendly Ciao Ciao Pampa
So I'm watching the videos of the Bitter End show from a few days ago & as always I find myself focusing in on what you bring to the music.....what you ALWAYS bring to the music.
Then I go back & watch/listen to the past shows we've done together & what you brought to them.
Your brilliance, creativity & genius always leave me speechless & grateful at how lucky I am to make music with you & just know you at all.
Thank you for coming into my life this year & I hope for many years to come!
