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Kirkland Performance Center, 8pm BUY ONLINE
Sara Gazarek
$29 adult/$10 youth
Vocalist Sara Gazarek, a graduate of Roosevelt High School's award-winning jazz program, captivates audiences with her gorgeous voice, which can be light and lilting one moment, then sassy and swinging the next. Although steeped in the jazz tradition, she is not afraid to embrace the music that moves her generation.
A rising star, Gazarek first gained attention as a high school senior when she won the first ever Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Outstanding Jazz Vocalist Award at the Essentially Ellington Festival in 2000. Three years later, she was awarded the Down Beat Student Music Award for Best Collegiate Vocalist and toured with Oleta Adams, Karrin Allyson, and Diane Schuur as the "as yet undiscovered talent" in the Concord Jazz Festival tour. In 2004, she graduated from the University of South California with a degree in jazz studies.
Last year she released her second studio album, Return to You, a collection of contemporary standards. The album has garnered praise from critics and was ranked the third best jazz CD of 2007 by NPR/KPLU.
Making her first appearance at the Earshot Jazz Festival, Gazarek performs tonight with her Los Angeles-based quartet featuring Josh Nelson on piano, Hamilton Price on bass, and Zach Harmon on drums.
saragazarek.com