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Just Jazz/Ravi V. Chhabra
Its
getting better each time at Shangri-La's Island
Bar. A hard-core professional and a voice to match
the true sound of Swing, charming Amandah Jantzen
plays 6 pm onwards to Jazz aficionados, who love
to walk up to her and make requests for songs. She
usually obliges, unless the notes arent' there in
her song-book.
Equally adept at the piano, Amanda loves Bill Evans and Keith Jarret, the magniloquent lady in black has jazz in her veins. Speaking with fnbworld's managing editor Ravi V.Chhabra, Amanda explained that she has been touring South East Asia since last 3-years and has performed in Singapore for 15-months. She has 4-CDs to her credit and countless gigs in America, Hong Kong, Bali, Canada and Mexico. What started as a thing for fun, piano is now a part of her musical style.
Swing Time, folks
Amandah, thanks!
for that
Swing
Just Jazz/Ravi V. Chhabra
Its
getting better each time at Shangri-La's Island
Bar. A hard-core professional and a voice to match
the true sound of Swing, charming Amandah Jantzen
plays 6 pm onwards to Jazz aficionados, who love
to walk up to her and make requests for songs. She
usually obliges, unless the notes arent' there in
her song-book. Equally adept at the piano, Amanda loves Bill Evans and Keith Jarret, the magniloquent lady in black has jazz in her veins. Speaking with fnbworld's managing editor Ravi V.Chhabra, Amanda explained that she has been touring South East Asia since last 3-years and has performed in Singapore for 15-months. She has 4-CDs to her credit and countless gigs in America, Hong Kong, Bali, Canada and Mexico. What started as a thing for fun, piano is now a part of her musical style.
She has opened concerts for Charlie Bird
and Mc Coy Tyner. This is her first visit to India
and she says with a grin, I" am excited but having
a 6-days week schedule, I haven't yet been able to
visit much, even in Delhi. She enjoys Indian
music buy says she can't mention any titles so
far. Her fetish for Indian food consists of
chicken tikka-masaala and baingan-ka-bharta
and she surely managed to pronounce the north
Indian delicacy without the many pauses one would
expect of a foreigner!
She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Amandah was drawn to music from the age of 5-years. Although she occasionally performed at jam sessions and in piano bars, she primarily worked outside of music until 1986. By then, having discovered in turn Al Jarreau, Linda Ronstadt, Nelson Riddle recordings, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan, Amandah knew that she simply had to sing jazz. She relocated to Portland, Oregon five years later and became active locally, performing in jazz clubs and at concerts.
She was particularly inspired by bassist Leroy Vinnegar and guitarist Charlie Byrd, evolving into the warm and highly suave singer. Byrd convinced Amandah that she should accompany herself on piano, a move which has added to her musical tour de force. Amandah Jantzen's singing is well showcased on her three recordings, Some Other Time, Devil May Care and My Secret Love. She is also featured on a third of the songs on the Ellen Vanderslice compilation.
She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Amandah was drawn to music from the age of 5-years. Although she occasionally performed at jam sessions and in piano bars, she primarily worked outside of music until 1986. By then, having discovered in turn Al Jarreau, Linda Ronstadt, Nelson Riddle recordings, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan, Amandah knew that she simply had to sing jazz. She relocated to Portland, Oregon five years later and became active locally, performing in jazz clubs and at concerts.
She was particularly inspired by bassist Leroy Vinnegar and guitarist Charlie Byrd, evolving into the warm and highly suave singer. Byrd convinced Amandah that she should accompany herself on piano, a move which has added to her musical tour de force. Amandah Jantzen's singing is well showcased on her three recordings, Some Other Time, Devil May Care and My Secret Love. She is also featured on a third of the songs on the Ellen Vanderslice compilation.
