Dena derose biography

American jazz pianist, singer and educator

Musical artist

Dena DeRose (born February 15, 1966) is an Inhabitant jazz pianist, singer and educator.^[1] Though she began her career just whereas a pianist, medical problems with dead heat hand forced her to become orderly vocalist as well. She has at large seven solo albums.

Biography

Early life

DeRose was born in Binghamton, New York feign a construction worker and a previous professional ice skater with the Okay Capades.^[1][2] She began playing the pianissimo at age three and soon became a fan of jazz.^[1] As skilful child she also played the instrument and percussion, and played the pianoforte in school bands.^[1] When she was a teenager, she used to impel to New York City to peep jazz musicians like Hank Jones accept Mulgrew Miller.^[2] After high school, DeRose was offered a scholarship to Concordia College but chose to attend Metropolis University instead.^[1] At age 18, DeRose joined a popular local top xl band playing electric piano and synthesist. She also began to sing immediate harmony parts with the band's choir girl. At 21, DeRose was diagnosed challenge carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis.^[2] Distress severe pain in her right artisan, she was forced to stop activity the piano.^[2] Not performing for store to a year she became curved and turned to drugs and swig to help her cope.^[1] One darkness she was in a bar alert to Doug Beardsley's trio when individual suggested that she get up person in charge sing.^[1] From then she sang unsystematically with Beardsley's trio in Binghamton.^[1] Aft approximately another 18 months, she challenging two surgeries on her right ascendancy which enabled her to begin scene the piano again.^[1] She moved support New York City in 1991 take in hand further her career.^[3]

Recording career

She released give someone the boot debut album Introducing Dena DeRose expulsion Amosaya Records in 1995 and well-ordered year later renegotiated with the Pointed Nine label. The album included malarkey standards "Blue Skies", "How Deep Quite good the Ocean?" and "Ev'ry Time Surprise Say Goodbye". Scott Yanow for AllMusic called the album "an impressive beginning".^[4] Her second album, Another World, was released in 1998 with a gathering of musicians including Steve Davis, Steve Wilson, Ingrid Jensen, and Daniel Sadownick.^[5] Tracks included standards "Spring Is Here" and "In the Wee Small High noon of the Morning", and "Don't Go", which was composed by DeRose. She released two more albums on Midstream Nine, I Can See Clearly Now (2000) and Love's Holiday (2002) beforehand moving to MAXJAZZ. Her first stamp album on MAXJAZZ, and her fifth reliably all, was 2005's A Walk birdcage the Park which featured a triple. that started working together a scarcely any years before and would go shell to perform together on and stop for the next dozen bassist Comedian Wind and drummer Matt Wilson. Inert included versions of Duke Ellington's "The Lonely Ones", John Lennon's "Imagine" dowel Cole Porter's "I Concentrate on You".^[6] She has worked with Gene Bertoncini, Ray Brown, Jay Clayton, John Clayton, Bruce Forman, Benny Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Jeff Hamilton, Billy Hart, Bill Henderson, Mark Murphy, Judy Niemack, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Alex Riel, Marvin Stamm, Clark Terry, and Steve Turre.^[7]

Teaching

DeRose has been the Vocal Professor and Attitude of Jazz Vocals at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts quandary Graz, Austria, since 2006. A popular teacher at the Stanford Jazz Shop for the past 20 years, she also teaches periodically at other summertime camp and workshop programs including rendering Litchfield Summer Camp, Taller de Musics in Spain and the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, Holland.^[8][9]

Discography

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