Fri, May 10
|Palo Alto
2024 Grammy winner Jamie Davis with Grammy winning pianist Glen Pearson
Jamie Davis with Michael O'Neill trio
Time & Location
May 10, 2024, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Palo Alto, 640 Emerson St, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
Guests
About the event
After studying under the renowned New York vocal coach Edward Boatner, he moved to San Francisco securing opportunities to perform with Milt Jackson, Eddie Henderson, Melba More and Pharoah Saunders. The year 2000 brought exhilarating performances with the Count Basie Orchestra. On that experience Davis reflects, “Having all that sound behind you is just amazing. You’ve got to ride that current.”
With a repertoire from Cole Porter to Stevie Wonder to the classical music of Bach, Schumann, Mahler and Rameau’s French compositions, confirms Davis possesses the flexibility and sexy sophistication by his effortless delivery to stand with any of the great vocalists. He has been described as a fine wine which has stood the test of time, constantly innovating jazz classics, ‘rolling out’ the blues and performing with one foot in the past and the other in ‘today.’