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Jazz Vocal Ensemble Concert
Presented by Jazz at Princeton
date & time
Thu, Apr 24, 2025
7:30 pm
ticketing
Free, Unticketed
JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE (JVE) is a small jazz ensemble that features solo voice and a rhythm section (e.g. piano, guitar, bass, and drums) and horns to create a collaborative musical experience. Under the direction of Directed by Michelle Lordi, join JVE for a beautiful evening of songs.
FEATURING WORDS BY:
Carla Bley, Betty Carter, Dorothy Fields, Maria Gever, Carmen Lundy, Peggy Lee, Bernice Petkere, Esperanza Spalding, Ann Ronell, Mary Lou Williams
PERFORMERS:
Adia Niara Allison ’25, Paolo Montoya ’25, Lilia Burtonpatel ’27, Otto Trueman ’27, Isabella Checa Ramia ’25, Alessandro Troncoso ’25, Melody Choi ’25, Daniela Vita ’25, Quinn Dorward ’27, Sophia Varughese ’26, Camille Jones ’26, Ian Kenselaar
Program
I Love Being Here With You Peggy Lee, Bill Schluger
Lullaby of the Leaves Bernice Petkere, Joe Young
Crowned & Kissed Esperanza Spalding
Guess Who I Saw Today Doris Fischer, Allan Roberts
National Scars Daniela Vita '25
What a Difference a Day Makes María Grever, Stanley Adams
Is It a Crime Sade Adu, Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman
I Can't Give You Anything But Love Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields
INTERMISSION
The Devil Mary Lou Williams (arr. by Sophia Varughese)
Flor de Lis (Upside Down) Djavan, Dorothy Fields
Remind Me Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields
Tight Betty Carter
Willow Weep for Me Ann Ronell
The Island, the Sea and You Carmen Lundy
Rainy Window Lilia Burtonpatel '27
National Scars Daniela Vita '25
The Feeling is Mutual Caity Gyorgy
About
JAZZ AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY serves to promote this uniquely American music as a contemporary and relevant art form. Its goals are to convey the vast musical and social history of jazz, establish a strong theoretical and stylistic foundation with regard to improvisation and composition, and emphasize the development of individual expression and creativity. Offerings of this program include academic course work, performing ensembles, master classes, private study, and independent projects. Jazz at Princeton
University thanks you for joining them on this evening’s journey of beauty, exploration, discovery, and hope.
JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE (JVE) is a small jazz ensemble that features solo and ensemble voices with rhythm section (i.e. piano, guitar, bass, and drums) along with horns. This elite group of Princeton singers collaborates, creates and composes with their jazz instrumentalist counterparts. JVE hosts acclaimed professional jazz musicians and performs engaging concerts with a focus on jazz history, culture, storytelling and stage craft. For more information, contact jazz@princeton.edu.
Vocalist, educator, bandleader Michelle Lordi has received international accolades and heavy rotation on jazz/AAA radio stations in the US and abroad for her jazz and genre bending recording projects. Lordi has performed in jazz clubs, festivals and performance venues all across the US and in Europe, including Birdland, Smoke (NYC), Le Duc des Lombards (Paris), The Jazz Cruise (FLA), World Café Live, Mann Music Center, The Kimmel Center (PA). Her albums have garnered favorable reviews in Downbeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz (US), Jazz Journal, JazzWise (UK), JazzLife & Jaz.In (Japan). Lordi’s music has been featured by NPR Music and on Fresh Air With Terry Gross. Whether Lordi is performing american songbook standards with jazz legends such as Houston Person, exploring experimental soundscapes in her original music or delivering her taut, mesmerizing interpretations of pop ballads, a profound love of the music she chooses to sing and the musicians she creates with is evident in every note of her vividly expressive and elegantly communicative voice. Lordi brings an innate ability for insightful connection, creativity, and artistic collaboration that has been honed on the bandstand to her teaching to draw out the best performances in her students.
About
JAZZ AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY serves to promote this uniquely American music as a contemporary and relevant art form. Its goals are to convey the vast musical and social history of jazz, establish a strong theoretical and stylistic foundation with regard to improvisation and composition, and emphasize the development of individual expression and creativity. Offerings of this program include academic course work, performing ensembles, master classes, private study, and independent projects. Jazz at Princeton
University thanks you for joining them on this evening’s journey of beauty, exploration, discovery, and hope.
JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE (JVE) is a small jazz ensemble that features solo and ensemble voices with rhythm section (i.e. piano, guitar, bass, and drums) along with horns. This elite group of Princeton singers collaborates, creates and composes with their jazz instrumentalist counterparts. JVE hosts acclaimed professional jazz musicians and performs engaging concerts with a focus on jazz history, culture, storytelling and stage craft. For more information, contact jazz@princeton.edu.
Vocalist, educator, bandleader Michelle Lordi has received international accolades and heavy rotation on jazz/AAA radio stations in the US and abroad for her jazz and genre bending recording projects. Lordi has performed in jazz clubs, festivals and performance venues all across the US and in Europe, including Birdland, Smoke (NYC), Le Duc des Lombards (Paris), The Jazz Cruise (FLA), World Café Live, Mann Music Center, The Kimmel Center (PA). Her albums have garnered favorable reviews in Downbeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz (US), Jazz Journal, JazzWise (UK), JazzLife & Jaz.In (Japan). Lordi’s music has been featured by NPR Music and on Fresh Air With Terry Gross. Whether Lordi is performing american songbook standards with jazz legends such as Houston Person, exploring experimental soundscapes in her original music or delivering her taut, mesmerizing interpretations of pop ballads, a profound love of the music she chooses to sing and the musicians she creates with is evident in every note of her vividly expressive and elegantly communicative voice. Lordi brings an innate ability for insightful connection, creativity, and artistic collaboration that has been honed on the bandstand to her teaching to draw out the best performances in her students.