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jill mccarron
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Award winning pianist Jill McCarron's website includes all flash jukebox, presskit, bio, recordings and more ...
ill McCarron is a dedicated New Yorker. Born in Minneapolis, she spent her childhood and teen years in Canada (Winnipeg and Ottawa). She also lived for a time in Toronto, where she performed solo piano and with several local bands at Toronto's top jazz clubs while also attending Humber College.
Upon winning a Canada Council Grant, she relocated to New York for private studies in the jazz program at the New School for Social Research. After seeing the wider opportunities for growth that the city offered, it was not a tough decision for Jill to stay on permanently.
Although she enjoyed piano lessons from the age of five and proved to be unusually talented, Jill's moment of decision came at the age of 16, when listening to a radio recording of Art Pepper with her brother, Ross. A bebop piano caught her ear, which she discovered years later to be the stylings of Russ Freeman, and there was an instant connection. "I knew I could do that," she recalls thinking. From then she pursued the study of jazz with unflagging enthusiasm.
Jill's first place win ("for her deeply rooted jazz sensibility") at the 13th Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Florida in 1995 capped her earlier (1993) semi-finalist selection at the Thelonius Monk Jazz Piano Competition and her still earlier (1990) win, with her quintet, of the New York City Finals of the Hennessy Jazz Search.
Among those artists she has worked with since being in New York are trumpeter Randy Brecker, tenor saxist Don Braden, guitarist Russell Malone, alto saxist Vincent Herring, drummer Sheri Maricle's DIVA, and Kit McClure's Big Band. Venues have included The Blue Note, Shanghai Jazz, Knickerbocker,Tavern on the Green, Iridium, Metropolitan Cafe and Cleopatra's Needle, among others. Her performances have taken her throughout the U.S. and Europe.
As a soloist, playing both jazz and classical selections, Jill regularly performs at the Harvard Club of NYC Monday and Tuesday evenings and has recently added vocals to her repertoire. Her Wednesday evenings belong to Arturo's in Greenwich Village. For the balance of the week, she is in high demand, both as a soloist or with her combos, at numerous popular restaurants and night spots in NYC and environs ...
ill McCarron is a dedicated New Yorker. Born in Minneapolis, she spent her childhood and teen years in Canada (Winnipeg and Ottawa). She also lived for a time in Toronto, where she performed solo piano and with several local bands at Toronto's top jazz clubs while also attending Humber College.
Upon winning a Canada Council Grant, she relocated to New York for private studies in the jazz program at the New School for Social Research. After seeing the wider opportunities for growth that the city offered, it was not a tough decision for Jill to stay on permanently.
Although she enjoyed piano lessons from the age of five and proved to be unusually talented, Jill's moment of decision came at the age of 16, when listening to a radio recording of Art Pepper with her brother, Ross. A bebop piano caught her ear, which she discovered years later to be the stylings of Russ Freeman, and there was an instant connection. "I knew I could do that," she recalls thinking. From then she pursued the study of jazz with unflagging enthusiasm.
Jill's first place win ("for her deeply rooted jazz sensibility") at the 13th Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Florida in 1995 capped her earlier (1993) semi-finalist selection at the Thelonius Monk Jazz Piano Competition and her still earlier (1990) win, with her quintet, of the New York City Finals of the Hennessy Jazz Search.
Among those artists she has worked with since being in New York are trumpeter Randy Brecker, tenor saxist Don Braden, guitarist Russell Malone, alto saxist Vincent Herring, drummer Sheri Maricle's DIVA, and Kit McClure's Big Band. Venues have included The Blue Note, Shanghai Jazz, Knickerbocker,Tavern on the Green, Iridium, Metropolitan Cafe and Cleopatra's Needle, among others. Her performances have taken her throughout the U.S. and Europe.
As a soloist, playing both jazz and classical selections, Jill regularly performs at the Harvard Club of NYC Monday and Tuesday evenings and has recently added vocals to her repertoire. Her Wednesday evenings belong to Arturo's in Greenwich Village. For the balance of the week, she is in high demand, both as a soloist or with her combos, at numerous popular restaurants and night spots in NYC and environs ...
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