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Sheila Jordan

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

December 5, 2009

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With bebop roots displaying her unique musical trademarks—frequent and unexpected pitch changes, uncanny improvisatory abilities, and poignant ballad interpretations—Sheila Jordan has been praised by Blue Note as “one of the jazz world’s best-kept secrets.”

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  Tickets: $32-$38

  Info Phone: 215-893-1999

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  Dates:
  December 5, 2009

  Times:
  7:30 pm

• Venue Info

  Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater

  260 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

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  • Wheelchair Access
  • Assisted Listening System

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  • Event Name: Sheila Jordan
    "One of a kind"
    Review posted by: shrewdkate from Philadelphia, PA, Dec 07, 2009
    

    Sheila Jordan played a long-overdue show at the Kimmel on Saturday night, and at 81, her particular style and skills as a jazz vocalist are still wonderfully evident. She has a penchant for those... Expand

    Sheila Jordan played a long-overdue show at the Kimmel on Saturday night, and at 81, her particular style and skills as a jazz vocalist are still wonderfully evident. She has a penchant for those talky-style first-person intros to jazz standards that can seem a little on the corny side, but her sense of tonality and rhythm are out of this world, and the way her singing style emulates instrumentalists rather than other singers is rare, if not unique. This is a singer who sounds like a trumpet, a tenor sax, an alto, and even at times like a snare drum. And her palpable love of and joy in the music is infectious. Don't miss her next time she's in town. Collapse

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