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Gail Marten is featured on Outbound Radio |
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 JAZZ VOCALIST/SONGWRITER ASCAPlus Award 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 Born in Philadelphia, Gail Marten began her singing career in 1980 shortly after moving to Maryland. Performing throughout the mid-Atlantic region, Marten has captivated audiences at music festivals, concert venues, jazz clubs and private social events. During the 80's and 90's, Gail held long term engagements at many premier area hotels and bistros and has sung with many jazz notables including Cyrus Chestnut, Benny Waters, Reuben Brown, Dick Durham, Arnold Sterling, Mickey Fields, Greg Hatza, Billy Colucci, Bob Diener and Charles Covington at venues that include Baltimore's Pier Six Concert Pavilion and Ethel's Place, New York's West End Club and Rita Dimitri's, Charlie's-Georgetown and The Hilton in Gatwick, England. In 1983, Marten met world famous saxophonist Benny Waters at an engagement at the Hilton Hotel, and they established an on-going musical association and friendship and occasionally performed concerts together in the mid-Atlantic area until his death in 1997 at the age of 96. Gail and pianist/composer Clem Ehoff established a musical connection in the late 80s, and three CDs were recorded, BEYOND THE RAINBOW 2001, PURE JOY 2003 and IS IT LOVE 2007 receiving numerous awards. CURRENTLY: A new CD, IN LOVE AGAIN, released in October 2009 featuring pianist Larry Willis, bassist Herman Burney and drummer Eric Kennedy, has received high praise from critics and reviewers and is being played on jazz radio stations world-wide. Marten has been nominated for the 2010 Baker Artist Award and is under consideration in the 2009 Down Beat International Critics Poll. AWARDS: 2010: "Best 20 Vocal CDs" by W. Royal Stokes at Jazzhouse Diaries (In Love Again) and "Best of the 2000's" Women's Radio (Pure Joy) Winner of several international songwriting competitions for their original compositions and lyrics, Is It Love, Big Girl Blues, We Can Learn To Fly from their CD IS IT LOVE and Heaven On A Tropic Shore, Always There, One of Those Tomorrows and A Lovely Dream from their CD, PURE JOY. Their CDs have been nominated Best Jazz CD by JPF in 2004 (PURE JOY) and again in 2006 (IS IT LOVE). The title track, "Is It Love," was also nominated as Best Vocal Jazz Song. OTHER AWARDS: ASCAPlus, John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Billboard Songwriting Contest, Broadjam's Summer Music Challenge, Lyric Awards Global Contest, Song & Film, FinlandÕs Vantaa Jazz Heritage Assn., Film Music Network. |
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