{"id":154,"date":"2011-03-11T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T03:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curatingla.com\/2011\/03\/11\/jazz-pick-of-the-week-a-weekend-with-sheila-jordan\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T03:19:20","slug":"jazz-pick-of-the-week-a-weekend-with-sheila-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatingla.com\/cla\/2011\/03\/11\/jazz-pick-of-the-week-a-weekend-with-sheila-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Pick of the Week \u2013 A Weekend with Sheila Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.curatingla.com%2Fblog-index%2F2011%2F3%2F11%2Fjazz-pick-of-the-week-a-weekend-with-sheila-jordan-two-night.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"full-image-float-right ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cla\/legacy-images\/restaurants\/Vitellos_logo.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1299865905994\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilajordanjazz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Jordan<\/a> is proof that practice, dues and sheer will are essential ingredients for the making of a great improviser. At just about every performance she improvises on a blues to tell her life story, tracing her development from her birth to an unmarried 16-year-old girl through hanging with Charlie Parker and marriage to the bebop pianist Duke Jordan. It&#8217;s quite a tale, and by the end you realize that she&#8217;s willed herself into one of this era&#8217;s great jazz vocalists. Without possessing either a large vocal range or a luxuriant sound, she can take a well-known melody and transform it while endowing her improvisations with a straightforward soulfulness that transcends the limitations of her voice.<\/p>\n<p>Still a formidable performer at 82, Jordan performs an autobiographical show <em>Jazz Messages<\/em> on Friday, billed as a &ldquo;performance of music and words in two acts&rdquo; with her biographer, the gifted singer Ellen Johnson. She performs two shows on Saturday with a stellar band featuring pianist Alan Pasqua, bassist Darek Oles and drummer Peter Erskine.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"full-image-float-right ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cla\/legacy-images\/musicians\/SheilaJordan.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1299865703805\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><span class=\"thumbnail-caption\" style=\"width: 150px;\">Photo via Vitello&#8217;s web site<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>DETAILS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Friday, March 11 at 8 p.m. \/ Saturday, March 12 at 8 and 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitellosrestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vitello&#8217;s Jazz &amp; Supper Club<\/a> , 4349 Tujunga Ave.\u2028 Studio City<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost<\/strong>: $20-$50 (Note: $13 menu item minimum is required in addition to show tickets)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketweb.com\/snl\/EventListings.action?orgId=79153\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketweb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Information<\/strong>:<br \/>Tel: 818.769.0905<br \/>Web: <span style=\"color: #144595;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitellosrestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.vitellosrestaurant.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Recordings<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=curalosange-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;asins=B000005HDW\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;&nbsp;<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=curalosange-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0007ZSHGM&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>____________<\/p>\n<p><em>Jazz Pick of the Week is written by Andrew Gilbert.&nbsp;Andy is my brother and a prolific freelance writer whose primary focus is Jazz. You can find his articles in the Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, JazzTimes and many other publications. He&nbsp;will periodically contribute other articles to Curating Los Angeles and share his expertise and passion for the southland Jazz scene.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cla\/legacy-images\/restaurants\/Vitellos_logo.jpg\" alt=\"vitellos_logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sheila Jordan is proof that practice, dues and sheer will are essential ingredients for the making of a great improviser. At just about every performance she improvises on a blues to tell her life story, tracing her development from her birth to an unmarried 16-year-old girl through hanging with Charlie Parker and marriage to the bebop pianist Duke Jordan. It&#8217;s quite a tale, and by the end you realize that she&#8217;s willed herself into one of this era&#8217;s great jazz vocalists. Without possessing either a large vocal range or a luxuriant sound, she can take a well-known melody and transform it while endowing her improvisations with a straightforward soulfulness that transcends the limitations of her voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,31,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-jazz-pick-of-the-week","category-music","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jazz Pick of the Week \u2013 A Weekend with Sheila Jordan - Curating Los Angeles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/curatingla.com\/cla\/2011\/03\/11\/jazz-pick-of-the-week-a-weekend-with-sheila-jordan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jazz Pick of the Week \u2013 A Weekend with Sheila Jordan - Curating Los Angeles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sheila Jordan is proof that practice, dues and sheer will are essential ingredients for the making of a great improviser. 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