|
JOAN
CARTWRIGHT
Born on December 7,
1947, in Kew Gardens, New York, Joan
Cartwright began singing at the age of 4.
Her mother played piano and sang for fun and her
father is an ardent jazz lover with a
commendable collection of albums.
Joan studied
dance with Bernice Johnson from the age of 4 to
8. At 19 to 21, she studied with Nigerian dancer
and drummer Dinizulu. She studied piano with
Gerald Price and harp with Caliope Proios, in
Philadelphia, where she received her Bachelor's
in Music and Communication from La Salle
University.
In
1984, she relocated to Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
where she sang in most of the jazz venues and
appeared in festivals from Jupiter to Miami,
Florida. In 1994, she graduated from Florida
Atlantic University with a Master's in
Communication.
An explosive jazz
and blues singer, composer and educator,
Joan
Cartwright performs with her band
Jazz Hotline, in the U.S. for 30 years
and in Europe since 1990. In 2006, she toured
Japan and China, where she was the first
American Jazz singer in the city of Tianjin.
Her composition,
Sweet Return, is recorded by Freddie
Hubbard and the Kool Jazz All-Stars of 1983, on
Atlantic Records. Joan is the only other
composer in the Freddie Hubbard Song Book. This
track is featured on Joan's current CD, IN
PURSUIT OF A MELODY (2006) that also includes
her tribute to hip hop on her composition
Talkin' That Jazz. She
sings her own songs and those of Ellington,
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter,
Gershwin, Jobim and other standard composers.
An extraordinary
performer, Joan enchants any audience anywhere!
She co-produced her debut CD,
"Feelin' Good", with Giovanni
Mazzarino in Sicily, an island south of the Italian
mainland.
Her
jazz compositions include "Loneliblue", "A
Natural Thing", "We Are Free", "Countin' On The
Count", "Moving Song", "Butterfly"
and a reggae tune "Love Translation".
Joan has performed
on television, radio and on stage at the Blue
Note (NYC), O’Hara’s, Promenade in the Park, Riverwalk Sunday Jazz
Brunch, Gold Coast Society and Ellington's in
Broward;
Ellington's (Sanibel Island, FL) and
JAZID (Miami Beach) in the U.S., in
eight
European
countries and two Asian countries, China and
Japan.
IN
PURSUIT OF A MELODY contains Joan's
memoirs, photos, poetry, lectures and 40
original compositions. It is published by
Trafford Publishing, in Canada. Her CD, by the
same name, was first released in Atlanta, GA, in
2006. The official edition will be released in
April 2007.
In
1998, Cartwright produced Gaiafest, A
Celebration of Mother Earth with Women in Jazz,
a three-day event that honored legendary
jazzwomen Dorothy Donegan and Dakota Staton. She is the
recipient of $15,000 in SEAS Grants (1999-2001)
for her presentation of
WOMEN IN JAZZ at Broward County
Schools, in Florida, to over 5,000 children and
college students. In 2006, she made her
presentation at the Tokyo International School
and International School of Tianjin, China.
Her research paper,
The Sign of The Blues, was
published in the 1993 IAJE Research Papers
Journal. She offers lectures around the world on: Women in Jazz, The Cultural
Politics of Commercial Jazz
and The
Business of Music: So, You Want To Be A Singer?
Book
Joan's
WOMEN IN JAZZ Workshop -
divajc47@yahoo.com
View Joan's
videos online at
Ms. Cartwright is President of FYI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
a company that
provides communication tools for entrepreneurs, artists,
authors, musicians and cultural producers. She is a website designer and Internet Diva.
|
Dear
Subscriber,
