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Rochelle Thompson with the Jon Weiss Trio
 Dindi      No Name Blues      Crazy He Calls Me
 Arrangements by Rochelle Thompson

Email Rochelle:  Sassybizr@aol.com 
   
For bookings contact Jim Morehand @ parlourjazz@aol.com
119 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 1205  Phone: 718-855 -1981


Upcoming Appearances:
KEEPING JAZZ ALIVE!
 

Friday, July 27, 2007
Medgar Evers College Jazzy Jazz Festival, 1650 Bedford Avenue (Between Crown and Montgomery Streets). Two Shows: 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Rochelle performs with her Trio: "JAZZ! As Soon As Possible!"
Call: (917) 535-9781.

Sunday, September 16, 2007:
NAACP Jazz Brunch, 2:00 p.n. - 6:00 p.m.  "Thomasina's", 205 - 35 Linden Avenue, Queens, New York, Rochelle Thompson and "Beautiful Jazz," call:  (718) 525-5273 for further information.

Friday, May 11, 2007,
"Celebrating the Life, the Music and Times of Torrie McCartney," Jazz 966, 966 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, Two Shows: 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Sam Pinn, Director. Call (718) 498-2150. Cover: $10.00. Bob Cunningham, Musical Director and Bassist, John Miller, Pianist, Earl "Sir Earl" Grice, Jr., Drums.

Saturday, May 23, 2007, 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m.
"Artist Talk: Jazz: To Mary Lou William With Love!" The Screening of "Soul on Soul: The Story of Mary Lou Williams" by Documentary Filmmaker Carol Bash,  Harlem Branch Library, 9 West 124th Street between Malcolm X Boulevard and Fifth Avenue. Ms. Thompson talks about Mary Lou Williams and her other Pittsburgh jazz influences.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 12:00 noon - 3:00 p.m.
"Brown Bag, Jazz, and Jesus!", Rendell Memorial Presbyterian Church, 59 - 61 West 137th Street. Free. Call (212) 283-2928

April 2006 - Renaming of a Street in Brooklyn for Jazz Legend Betty "Bebop" Carter - Posting of date soon.

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What They Are Saying About Ms Thompson's Daughter

Coming Soon
Look for:  "The Night Is Beautiful!" Jazz Profiles
with Jazz Editor Rochelle Thompson
   
"The place is called 22 West*. It is a restaurant/club located on 135th Street in Harlem.  Jazz singer Rochelle Thompson says, "It's the legendary place where Malcolm X used to dine in Harlem when he was alive!  And, Malcolm also loved jazz."

Thompson's  magnetic personality generates joy and happiness, which becomes so contagious that it draws the listener into her sphere.  And when she is singing, her proud ancestral jazz culture emerges, expressing her self-love of Harlem and Black folks."         Amsterdam News, NY
 * (22 West a Harlem landmark has closed it's doors as of 2003)

     

Rochelle is a Jazz singer and story teller combined into one. 
When she's singing her jazz stories, the spirit of the jazz ancestors seem to rise up and take residence within her.

 
During any of her performances Rochelle delivers uniquely felt, yet true to era style renditions of a number of legendary jazz artists such as Ella Fitzgerald (with unique scatting) or,  Dinah Washington's, "This Bitter Earth," with mellow deep feelings and rumbling tones that seems to vibrate from within the listener.
   

A story teller at heart, Rochelle performs with exquisiteness expressions from the American Song Book.  Obviously, one can see and hear that she really knows the language of song.

Whether it's Rochelle's arrangement of the standard "That's All," or an elegant sculpture of Billie Holiday's  "God Bless the Child," it is as if the spirits of these legendary ancestors are actually right there inside of her.

  

Generations - Christmas in Shanghai

 

"God has blessed our people with such a gift that we must recognize and express our African folklore."

"People like Zora Neale Hurston, Josephine Baker,  and Al Jarreau are my spiritual teachers - they led me to my very own musical  signature."

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