The Official Louise Gibbs Web Site

Louise GibbsLOUISE GIBBS is a singer, jazz improviser and composer. It has been said of her bebop-inspired style: "She can turn a hackneyed jazz standard into a newly-imagined composition...and takes musical risks...as expressive as any horn player whether the tune's by Kenny Wheeler or Rodgers & Hart"

The latest CD - Everybody's Song But Our Own - Louise Gibbs & Kirk Lightsey - is just released! Check it out, and buy it on www.33jazz.com

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Jazz Ballad Singing and Improvisation Workshop in Leeds, Saturday 14 June 2008, 10am-5pm.  Many of you have requested a workshop focusing on jazz ballads. Here it is! The workshop (open to all singers) , as always, provides a live trio for you to work with. The workshop covers:

- interpreting the song and enhancing the meaning of the lyric
- gettting more depth or tone and expression out of the voice
- controlling slow tempi and managing a colla voce verse
- scatting inside a ballad and improvising with words
- directing the band, changing tempi, and "conducting" with your voice 
- offering a confident and convincing performance
For more information contact: louise@jazzmine.co.uk 
 

 IF YOU WANT YOUR LOCAL JAZZ VENUES TO CONTINUE, DON'T JUST THINK ABOUT GOING OUT TO LISTEN TO LIVE MUSIC - DO IT!