PORT ANGELES — Five-time Grammy-nominated artist Karrin Allyson will perform at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center at 7 tonight.
Ticket prices for the concert at the center at 304 E. Park Ave. range from $15 to $35, with youth 14 and younger admitted for $10.
Ticket outlets are online at www.jffa.org as well as at Port Book and News in Port Angeles and Joyful Noise Music in Sequim.
“If there’s a choir in Heaven, someday the exquisite vocalist Karrin Allyson will lead it,” the Houston Press said. “She’s such an otherworldly talent that the creator probably already has her on heavy rotation.”
Allyson has carved out a career as a singer, songwriter, pianist, composer and bandleader, organizers said.
She performs regularly throughout the world, including a visit each year to Seattle’s Jazz Alley.
“The classically trained Karrin Allyson is also a great bandleader — truly a musicians’ musician,” organizers said.
“This is one of Allyson’s greatest achievements and, with her band, she has developed a powerful and flexible language and style unique among current groups.”
Allyson’s career with Concord Jazz resulted in 13 albums, five Grammy nominations and a recent self-produced holiday album, “Yuletide Hideaway,” that won four stars from Downbeat.
Allyson lives in New York City. She grew up in the Mid-west, went to school in the Bay Area and earned a degree in classical piano performance before beginning a career with Concord Jazz.
She now spends two days out of three on tour, playing the major jazz festivals, concert venues and clubs of the U.S. and making repeated tours overseas — to Brazil, Japan, Australia and Europe.
Her repertoire encompasses standards by Gershwin and Porter, Brazilian bossa nova, Thelonious Monk, French and Brazilian music (“From Paris to Rio”), John Coltrane (“Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane”) and the blues (“In Blue”).
“Allyson coolly stakes her claim,” said jazz critic Gary Giddins in The Village Voice. “She brings a timbre that is part ice and part grain — incisive, original and emotionally convincing.”
