The Linda Satin Trio plays Best Video Film & Cultural Center Fri., July 21. Jazz singer Linda Satin will be accompanied by Joe Carter on guitar and Jeff Fuller on bass. The show starts at 7 PM and the cover is $15.
Linda Satin, developed her love of jazz and singing as a child growing up in Connecticut, listening to her father's records by Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra, and Tony Bennett. Satin learned the tunes by heart, sparking her love for the Great American Songbook. In high school, she sang in vocal ensembles and choruses and studied jazz piano with John Mehegan She had her first taste of singing jazz in front of an audience with Mehegan’s quartet at the Villanova, a small jazz venue in Southport, CT.She has performed in New York at Birdland and Greenwich House, and in Connecticut at various clubs and for private parties.
Satin studied voice for many years in New York City with the jazz improviser and teacher, Connie Crothers. Satin has recorded for New Artists Records, a label started by Crothers and Max Roach. Her CD The Way I Am is a compilation of duets with Connie Crothers and jazz guitarist Andy Fite.
By day, Linda Satin is a reading specialist, working with kids who are dyslexic.
Having performed in such diverse places as Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and Recife in Brazil, Bombay, Bangalore and Goa in India, Trossingen and Stuttgart in Germany and Paris and Corsica in France, Joe Carter has used these experiences to form a sound and style based in “Samba Jazz”, a style that combines the improvisational nature of North American Jazz with the lyrical and rhythmical aspects of Brazilian Bossa Nova, Samba, Choro, Baiao and MPB.
Whether performing on stage and in clubs, teaching jazz and coaching ensembles, or composing and arranging in his home studio, Jeff Fuller brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to all his musical endeavors. An integral part of the Connecticut, New York and international jazz scenes, Fuller toured worldwide and recorded with saxophonists Lou Donaldson and Paquito D’Rivera. He has played with jazz masters from all styles and eras including such diverse artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Mose Allison, “Papa” Jo Jones, Gerry Mulligan, and Clark Terry.