Name: Jackie Ryan
Start: 2022-04-08T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2022-04-08T22:30:00-07:00
Location: The Sound Room

Jackie Ryan

The Sound Room is aptly named. The focus is on the sound or the music. Unlike clubs where the performance may be peripheral to the experience, at the Sound Room the performance is the experience.  We are an all-ages listening room. We exist to present great music and promote jazz as an art form.The Sound Room is the home of Bay Area Jazz & Arts, a  501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on promoting the Arts.

Bay Area Jazz & Arts at The Sound Room

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JazzTimes magazine calls Jackie Ryan “one of the most outstanding vocalists of her generation ..rivaling the dexterous sass of Sarah Vaughan, the instinctive smarts of Carmen McRae and the scintillating verve of Diana Krall.” Vocalist Jackie Ryan arrived on the ever-changing jazz scene at the dawning of the new millennium, deriving a classic, yet exotic style and sound. Of Mexican, Irish, French, and Spanish decent, Ryan throws her background it into her music. She sings in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, and echoes of Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday can be heard. &quot;Extraordinary - a world-class talent!&quot; Don Heckman, jazz critic for the Los Angeles Times, calls her. And it&#x27;s no wonder. She has a magnetic stage presence. Wherever she performs - domestically, or in Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada - it&#x27;s the same story. She&#x27;s been such a hit at London&#x27;s famed Ronnie Scott&#x27;s Club that the owner, Pete King, asked Jackie to appear on Ronnie Scott&#x27;s own prestigious Jazz House label and the London Evening Standard called her &quot;one of the finest singers to perform at Ronnie&#x27;s since Shirley Horn.&quot; Among the many jazz greats Jackie has sung, recorded, or toured with are: Clark Terry (at the Monterey Jazz Festival), Toots Thielemans, Barry Harris, Cyrus Chestnut, Terry Gibbs, Buddy DeFranco, Red Holloway, Eric Alexander, Jeremy Pelt, Ernie Watts, Roy McCurdy, George Gaffney, Amina Figarova, Mike Wofford, Larry Vuckovich, Jon Mayer, and Jon Hendricks - just a few of the legends with whom she has shared the stage, and who sing her praises as well.She has written and recorded not only vocalese lyrics to such be-bop improvisations as Joe Henderson&#x27;s &quot;The Kicker,&quot; but also lyrics to such poignant ballads as Barry Harris&#x27;s &quot;Deep Love.&quot; This creativity as an artist and performer, combined with her being a genuinely warm person, has put her much in demand for concerts both here and abroad.

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