whitney marchelle

WHITNEY MARCHELLE JACKSON-Singer /piano & guitar/songwriter-ASCAP, Light Jazz, 

see www.whitneymarchelle.com

  cd available are :Strong Black Woman ,DIG DIS , Parkers at Thompson Hotel, Pier 84 NYC, Channel 13 ,The Velvet Note, Harlem Arts Festival,Dubai,Live Magazine & Time Out Dubai .Several International Jazz Festivals, World Cup Bethpage Polo, Apollo, Mist Harlem, Mintons, Quincy Jones (studio), Herbie Hancock,New York Blue Note, Carnegie Hall,Art Deco Festival in Miami Florida w Mustaffa Big Band and Dee Dee Bridgewater see  Jazziz Magazine.  Performed at Clements Jazz Series rugers University, Dusit Dubai Hotel in Dubai United Emirates.  Memorial Art Gallery with Wycliffe Gordon -Rochester,Lodge At The Woodcliffe/Rochester NY Golf Resort, Kwanza Day Rochester NY,Flushing Town Hall, Harrys Bar (Singapore) w/Chromozone, Mintons Play house, Apollo for the Frankie Manning 100 show - featured vocalist of David Berger's arrangement Miss Thing. performed for 5 (including Singapore president) Presidents and several political affairs.  Steve Turre, Jeremy Pelt, Frank Lacy, Patience Higgins, Drake University(Big Band), Fox Theater, Des Moines Civic Center,  Louis Armstrong House, Tonight Show, Eisenhart Auditorium,Lenox Lounge,Nashville Network, Illiki Hawaii Hotel, Oil Can Harrys(opened for Bill Withers, Kiss.  Chiris Evert Tennis classis Star Spangled Banner in LA..Las Vegas Shows,  Cotton Club, Church Hill Grounds (GA), Orlibtz (Philly), Featured parts in films, TV throughout the world and radio shows.

Festivals: Black History Month Rochester NY,Atlanta Jazz Festivals, Black Arts Festival, Jazz In July, New Orleans Madris, Art Deco, Rose Festival, Budweiser Blues Festival, Balloon Festival Sentosa Island, Eddie Durham Festival (twice),ABC Superstar Games,Balloon Festival w/Chromozone Band Interantional Hotels. Rochester Jazz Festival, Jazz in July,Lady Got Chops Festival,Harlem Mist week of Harlem festival.

Artist: Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Steve Turre.Mustafa Jazz Orchestra, Fat Head Nueman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, opened for Bill Withers, Ray Charles (studio),Stevie Wonder (at his house),Wayne Newton (4 yrs), James Ingram,Wynard Harper,Drake University Big Band Walter Booker, R. Veal, E John Hicks, Marcus Mc Lauren (basssist),Ed Shannesy, ELEW, Drake Univeristy Big Band, , Patience Higgins.

Events: Memorial Art Gallery 3 events Polo Match Ceremony (Star Spangled Banner), Presidential Events (Played guitar & Piano),IAJE- Atlanta GA w/ Big Band, the Lodge At Woodclife Golf resort, Chris Evert Tennis Classic, World Cup, & Grammy Events. Gilda House Aired on Channel 8, Directors Guild w Wayne Newton, Olympic Events, Grammy Events, Several Wolrd Cup Bethpage.
events w. Clark Terry,The Baobab Cultural Center(guitar & vocal), The Little Theater (Rochester), NY Blue Note, Memorial Art Gallery KWANZA (Jazz Poetry and Piano/guitar.Martin Luther King Day State Captial-Des Moines Iowa Front Page press and TV coverage,Black History Month The Lodge At Woodcliffe/Rochester NY

Commercials: State Farm Insurance, Mr. Gadget
 Theater: You Got A Problem Arron Davis Hall (NY)
  CO-Star at Iowa Civic Center-Briar Rose

Featured Magazines: Jazziz Magazine, Hot House, Variety, (NY)Time Out,Dubai Time Out , "Her" ROCHESTER" , Where Magazine, JazzTimes, Ny Times, Daily News, New York Guide Jazz@Linocln Center for opening event pictures w.Wynton Marsalis.Alize Lavie,In Concert, Billboard.

Education:New School Univeristy (Voice), Jazzmobile( theory & piano), D.M.A.C.C. (Guitar & Business Law),Yamaha School Of Music(Piano), Kaufman School Of the Arts (Piano),Spellman(Voice),Drake University(private Vocal classes) several writing schools in Nashville, Private lessons, Mark Murphy, Eastman (piano) 

What Jazz Is has 33 Jazz vocabulary words and or phrases. The educational source for this piece Whitney credits to Wynton Marsalis's Jazz Educational Programs  Hear Eddie Durhma's Son playing guitar with the Walter Blanding Jr.and Walters arrangment. Check CT On In Walked Bud at the age of 87! Using his technique of fugal and trumpet for a bit and then blowin' a strong solo. Wycliffe Gordon has a plunger technique that NOBODY can touch.