Sheila Jordan

Sheila Jeannette Jordan (born Dawson the November 18th 1928 with Strait in the Michigan) is a Chanteuse of Jazz étatsunienne.

Dawson started to sing as of childhood in various clubs of Strait. Later it became member of the vocal trio Skeeter, Mitch and Jean . It is with the beginning of the year 1950 qu ' it moved with New York. She married Duke Jordan there the pianist of the orchestra of Charlie Parker. She studied near Charles Mingus and Lennie Tristano.

With the beginning of the year 1960, Sheila Jordan carried out its first discs, of which The Outer View with George Russell which contains a version become famous of You Are My Sunshine . Then she often sang in churches; she took part in the group of the trombonist Roswell Rudd, sang in duet with Jeanne Lee and contributed to the opera jazz Escalator over the Hill of Carla Bley.

In the middle of the years 1970, she sang regularly with Roswell Rudd. In 1977 it recorded an album with Arild Andersen and in 1983 was published its first album in duet in collaboration with the bass player Harvie Swartz ( Old Time Feeling ). Towards the end of the year 1970, it was made accompany by the trio by the pianist Steve Kuhn. It accompanied regularly George Gruntz in Europe. In 1998 it integrated the trio of Steve Kuhn (with Steve Kuhn, David Finck and Billy Drummond) and also took part, in company of Theo Bleckmann, with the album dedicated to the memory of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.

Jordan directed workshops of jazz starting from 1978 to the City College of New York , was occupied with Jay Clayton programs of the festival Jazz in July at the University of Massachusetts and gave courses to the Université Stanford. Judi Silvano and Sabine Kühlich one be inter alia his pupils.

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