Susan Kramer Jazz

Dream Drama Fest Presents: Nightmare: Emmit Till: A new play by CHARLES E. DREW JR . (featured vocalist-Susan  Kramer): August 28th th , 2011 ( 7pm-9pm ) $5 Cover Emmit Till's Mother, Mamie being supported by family at the funeral of her son. Susan Kramer will sing "Strange Fruit" at the top of this deeply moving play about the murder of Emmit Till, staring Anthony Harper, Jacqueline Dowd, (more to come...) Location: tba *Roana, a good friend and great Jazz singer in her own right, just reminded me that The Charlie Parker festival and Nightmare fall on the same day! How wonderful!! please spread the word about the play. I'm pretty sure it will be in Manhattan, but I will post exact location and cost soon. I think it's just $5.  I 've seen it twice, and could sit through many more shows . Each time impacted my differently and more deeply. The actors where wonderful!!! Thanks for writing this piece Charles and for allowing me to take part!

This is what I'm listening too now!   If Anyone has the complete lyrics to Cottontail, please send them! Thanks! Clifford Brown, Max Roach.."Daahoud". We're doing this song in Atlanta. Bernard said "listen to the trumpet!". I'm listening! Betty Carter and Ray Charles.

A Truly God-given voice! This one of my favorite Minnie Ripperton Songs.

Very, Very, very sad news about a young and beautiful artist. R.I.P. Amy Winehouse.

This blog from London (Sorry, Italy) mentions my band. Check it out.. jazz cafe - latest news dashboard

I'm in this video of Boperetta, but the first part has the fabulous Ms. Aixa Kendrix!

Boperetta Review: ALLABOUTJAZZ MAGAZINE October 2004 Published: September 30, 2004 “Blind to our faults, we're subject to love's compounded assaults!/Each failed union engraved on our mind, defines the future lovers we find/and duplicity severs the ties that bind... “ This is from the preamble to Geof Loomis ' Boperetta, playing the first Tuesday of every month at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe . Involving seven actor/singers and a five-piece band led by Loomis on piano, Boperetta is a musical with scat-sung dialogue, interspersed with several jazz arias in plain English. A rundown of Act Two (Sept. 7th) had the rickety creative drive of a work-in-progress, with dramatic subject matter leavened by generous comic relief. The scatting, which transpired often without the aid of music, took on the enigmatic quality of a Creole. It also presented a unique performance challenge, with each player having to act, “sing” and gesture simultaneously to convey dramatic meaning...