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Jay Clayton - Vocalist
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The Performer
Jay
Clayton is a major force in a new vocal movement in jazz today. Her
originality, a spontaneous command of a vocabulary of enchanting sounds,
excites audiences and has earned her the respect of fellow musicians and
critics.
Ms. Clayton
stepped into New York's exhilarating jazz scene in 1963. Since then she
has performed and recorded throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe with
leading jazz and new music artists including Steve Reich, Muhal Richard
Abrams, John Cage, Julian Priester, Jane Ira Bloom, Nana
Vasconcelos, Stanley Cowell and Bobby McFerrin. She has appeared at
major U.S. venues including Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, Sweet Basil,
Jazz Alley and at European festivals including North Sea and Montmartre.
She is also a member of the internationally acclaimed improvisatory
vocal quartet Vocal Summit, which features Urszula Dudziak, Norma
Winstone and Michele Hendricks.
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The New
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The Teacher
Jay
has taught vocal jazz at New York City College, the Banff Center in
Canada, the Bud Shank Workshop in Port Townsend, Washington, the Naropa
Institute in Boulder, Colorado and in music schools in Cologne,
Berlin and Munich, Germany, and in Graz, Austria. |
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She received a
CAPS grant in 1979, a performance grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts in 1983, a King County Arts Commission
grant in 1988, and an Artist Trust GAP grant in 1991. Ms.
Clayton was on the jazz faculty of Cornish College of the Arts
in Seattle through 2001, at which time she moved back to be a
more active part of the New York scene. |
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