Janiva Magness - Live at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley | March 1st-2nd, 2011 | TheUrbanMusicScene.com

JANIVA MAGNESS

March 1-2, 2011

FROM: The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

2033 6^th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121

CONTACT: Rachael Millikan, 206-441-9729, [email protected]m

RE: Performance at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

COST: $22.50

The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents vocalist Janiva Magness touring in support of her new release The Devil is an Angel Too. Band members include Janiva Magness (vocals), Zach Zunis (guitar), Gary Davenport (bass), Jim Alfredson (keys), and Matt Tecu (drums). Set times on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm Tuesday and 5:30pm Wednesday.

Award-winning vocalist Janiva Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty and beauty born from her life experience. A charismatic performer known for her electrifying live shows, Magness is a gutsy and dynamic musical powerhouse. She received the coveted 2009 Blues Music Awards for B.B. King Entertainer of The Year (she is only the second woman to ever win this award, Koko Taylor being the first) and for Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year, an honor she also received in 2006 and 2007. She has received eleven previous Blues Music Award nominations, is a 2010 Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year Nominee by DownBeat Magazine.

USA Today declared, “Magness is a blues star,” and The Philadelphia Inquirer said, “Magness sings superb, potent soul-blues with a scorching intensity.” Billboard writes, “Magness carves out a niche by singing the blues with maturity and sophistication.” Singer Magazine writes, “Her voice is sultry, smoky and strong with jazz, blues, and soul textures enveloping it.”

In the last few years she seems to have really hit her stride, creating powerful and soulful blues, R&B and soul music. She offers more of the same on her new CD The Devil is an Angel Too (April, 2010), with a voice and style that keeps growing and maturing. The vocals are both more potent and more subtle, her band ever more smooth and tight.

The songs on The Devil is an Angel Too, all seem to lean toward stories of life rich with meaning and full of emotion. They’ve all been carefully chosen and paced, and she sings them all beautifully. The arrangements are just right, sharp and snappy, smooth and soulful, but never intruding, always complementing the vocals.

Janiva Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty and beauty born from her life experience. She continues to be a charismatic performer known for her electrifying live shows; Magness is a gutsy and dynamic musical powerhouse. www.janivamagness.com

Upcoming Shows

McCoy Tyner Quintet March 3-6

Steve Smith and Vital Information March 8-9