We are chartbound in Jazz Week for the week of August 16th.
For Immediate Release
Summer 2010
Sylvia Brooks in Sensational CD Debut
Dangerous Liaisons
Singer Sylvia Brooks lights up early summer with her CD debut, Dangerous Liaisons – a collection of carefully chosen gems from the Great American Songbook – accompanied by a stellar 8-piece band. The album has been rolled out to general release after garnering enthusiastic response to a limited private issue earlier in the year. With masterful charts by Tom Garvin, Jeff Colella and Kim Richmond, Ms.Brooks cooks up sizzling performances of ten timeless standards familiar to the capacity crowds she draws to such L.A. area venues as Catalina’s, Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club, and the Jazz Bakery. Dangerous Liaisons is available through amazon.com, CD Baby, iTunes, and Napster. Initial tracks chosen for airplay by her promotion team, noted jazz specialists Dick LaPalm and Fred Mancuso, are “Come Rain or Come Shine”, “ The Man That Got Away”, and her rare vocal rendition of the classic “Harlem Nocturne”. Sylvia Brooks may be a fresh new face to the worlds of jazz and cabaret, but she is actually a seasoned professional in the art of telling a story, having spent the earlier years of her career as an actor in both straight drama and musical theater – first at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and then in numerous companies across the country. She is a native of Miami and was first introduced to the standards repertoire by her father, a jazz arranger/composer, and her mother, who combined nightclub singing and opera production in her own multi-faceted career. Ms.Brooks has a devoted following in Los Angeles, where she now resides. About the enormous treasure trove of American standard tunes, Ms.Brooks says “This music speaks to me! Like all great art, it is timeless and evokes the struggles and pleasures we live every day. The best singers of the past didn’t just sing – they infused each song with passion and brought their lives to the music. I feel that I’m a part of this continuum each time I sing one of these incredible songs.”
Performance Reviews: Six Time Best Bet Critics Pick – L.A. Times
“…grace and confidence…commanding charisma…dynamic performance.” -L.A. Jazz Scene
For more information about Sylvia Brooks, call 831-620-1332 and visit
www.kathrynkingmedia.com
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Sylvia Brooks
is certainly no stranger to Jazz, a fact extraordinary evident throughout the duration of her encore performance at Catalina Bar and Grill. Brooks returned to Catalina stage on July 16, 2008, where she performed songs from The Great American Songbook masterfully arranged by Tom Garvin.
Sylvia Brooks comes from a solid musical background, growing up with her father a popular jazz pianist and her mother a nightclub performer. “Sitting in the crib and hearing that music, it has to do something to you”, says Brooks. It was inevitable that melodies and harmonies would course rapidly through her veins from a very young age. Through Garvin’s innovative arrangements, this music possesses the ability to convey complex emotions while telling a unique and vivid story through the utilization of refreshing and diverse sounds performed by Brooks and her dynamic sextet. (more…)