Originally from El Paso, TX, Rosana Eckert has gained wide recognition as a dynamic jazz singer, composer, arranger, and educator. Her first full-band solo project, At the End of the Day, was praised as “an occasion for celebration” by All About Jazz and “a superior debut.” by Cadence Magazine, and it was a finalist for Best New Jazz Album in the 2006 Independent Music Awards. Her newest CD, Small Hotel, features a guest appearance and liner notes by world renowned trumpeter Marvin Stamm, as well as a guest appearance by the incomparable Christian McBride on bass.
Formerly an accomplished French horn player, Rosana was schooled in music at the University of North Texas, earning a degree in Music Theory with a minor in French horn performance. Somewhere along the way, she became immersed in the school’s incredible jazz program and transitioned into a solo vocalist. Rosana quickly found her place in the jazz program as an arranger and featured soloist in the UNT Jazz Singers, the vocalist with the world renowned One O’Clock Lab Band, and the recipient of the Vocal Jazz Teaching Fellowship. In 1999, Rosana won a spot in the IAJE "Sisters in Jazz" Collegiate Sextet, which performed several concerts around the country including at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival. In the summer of 2000, Rosana was honored to be the only female vocalist and one of only 16 musicians in the country selected for the Thelonious Monk Aspen Jazz Colony where she was mentored by many world renowned jazz recording artists including Christian McBride, Brian Blade, Joshua Redman, John Clayton, Russell Malone, and Dianne Reeves. The two-week jazz retreat was documented by the BET Jazz Channel.
Rosana currently teaches vocal jazz at the University of North Texas, both privately and in the classroom. Her original songs and arrangements have been performed worldwide, and she is a published arranger with the world’s largest music publishing company, Hal Leonard Corp. She is in demand as a jazz choir conductor and festival clinician/adjudicator, and she performs regularly at clubs, concert venues, and jazz festivals around the country. She has performed with such greats as George Duke (pn), Christian McBride (bass), Kenny Wheeler (tpt), Dave Friesen (bass), Marvin Stamm (tpt), and Terri Lyne Carrington (drms), and she has toured as a sub with the Grammy Award-winning vocal quartet New York Voices.
In addition to her teaching and live performing, Rosana works regularly in Dallas as a studio singer and producer. She has sung back-up vocals for various recording artists, and she can be heard on hundreds of jingles and radio IDs around the world.
www.rosanaeckert.com
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Another CD? That's great! I can't wait to hear it. =) I pulled out your first CD the other day. It's strange to think how much time has passed from then to now.
I am back in Baltimore and just released a LIVE duo CD with a great guitarist. I'm happy to report things are going well in life, music and love. I am soon to be engaged to an amazing man named Todd Googins. I don't know your hubby well, but Todd matches his outgoing exuberance. He's a vocalist (we met on a pop gig) and also does some web design. We (really he) put together my website and I'm very proud. Check it out: www.KarlaChisholm.com
How is life in TX? NY Voices just came to DC and played with the Air Men of Note. I was gigging so I couldn't make it, but was curious if you're still working with them. It looks like there's a lot of exciting things happening in your life and I'm thrilled to see it. =)
Take care and I'll probably send you another random e-mail months from now cause... that's how I roll. haha
Ciao,Rosana Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot, Band, and stupendous voice. compliments ..really. you are one of my prefeitis, I feel great admiration for you, talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music. all the best.. from italy..and good weekend neal
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