Alison Crockett Master Class

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Alison will sing a few songs for us live. Then we'll hear three volunteer singers perform and she'll give them feedback or discuss topics they're interested in. You can sing or just watch! Alison Crockett soul and jazz diva, who has been in the worldwide the music scene as a vocalist and educator for decades has created a program/performance that seeks to educate and include singers of all ages and generations in the joy of singing vocal jazz. Crockett has been an award-winning and prolific jazz, soul and electronica vocalist and has been featured on dozens of recordings including King Britt in his Neo-soul creation, “When the Funk hits the Fan,” the acid jazz and hip-hop mash up of Us3 “An Ordinary Day in and Unusual Place,” as well as two EPs and four full-length records most notably the chart topping “On Becoming a Woman…”. She has been described as “Mix [of] Nina Simone’s urgency, Betty Carter’s chops and Jill Scott’s sass, and you’ll get the bold and bravura vocalist Alison Crockett…”. Crockett then released “Return of Diva Blue,” a electronica remix record, “Bare” an acoustic piano based record, “Mommy, What’s a Depression?” a political mashup of funk, jazz, electronica and soul originals and jazz standards and finally, “Obrigada” an EP recorded in Brazil of originals and Bossa nova classics. Crockett has always been a craftsman, journeying through different genres, seeing the musical world through new eyes each time. She has toured the world several times over, working and recording with multiple artists in various genres. Crockett has also spent the last two decades of her life promoting music and jazz vocal education. As a university professor first at Temple University and then at George Washington University, she has trained jazz and pop vocalists privately and through the jazz choral ensemble, GW JiVE. She has worked with school-age children as the musical director of Highbridge Voices, writing, arranging and conducting over 250 children from the Bronx, to being the choral music instructor at the prestigious Fillmore Arts Center in Washington, D.C., for over 10 years. In her last year of teaching at Fillmore, she started to center totally on jazz choral education, exposing students to the joy of swinging and scatting and understanding the history and culture of jazz music.