Kitty Margolis

Kitty Margolis ( born November 7, 1955 in San Mateo, California) is an American singer of modern jazz.

Life and work

Margolis studied at Harvard University and San Francisco State University ( in John Handy ). Then they started in the jazz clubs of the " Bay Area" and perform at regional festivals. 1989 she released her first album, " Live At the Jazz Workshop". She went almost every year at the Monterey Jazz Festival and subsequently in other festivals in America, as well as the North Sea Jazz Festival and Norway. Regularly, the singer since the 1990s occurred in Europe and Japan, where she also accompanied prominiente sidemen such as Red Holloway and John Handy. On their second, roofed with numerous awards album "Evolution " (1994) she plays with Joe Henderson, on the album " Straight Up With a Twist " (1997) with Roy Hargrove.

It belongs to the faculty of the Jazz School in Berkeley, and gives private lessons and master classes at universities. From 2001, she led the vocal department of the " International Association for Jazz Education".

The critic Nancy Ann Lee ( "Jazz Times " ) presented the contra - alto in 1994 in a series with Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae and Betty Carter. The vocalist was 1994 and 1995, awarded by the critics of Down Beat as best young singer.

Sources and links

• Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 2 Reinbek 2002; ISBN 3-499-16513-9
• Website with discography

• Jazz Singer
• American musician
• Born in 1955
• Woman