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Special Guests Saturday, December 8, 2007 Ann Hampton Callaway She made up her first song at the age of three. These days, Ann Hampton Callaway is one of the finest singer/songwriters around. She starred in the Broadway musical Swing! And with her sister, Liz Callaway, she collaborated on the shows Sibling Revelry and Relative Harmony. Her compositions include the theme for television's The Nanny and the song "Manhattan in December," which was included in the Off-Broadway musical revue A Broadway Diva Christmas. Ann Hampton Callaway's latest recording is Blues In the Night (Telarc). Jon-Erik Kellso When trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso was 11, he was already doing big band work. Two years later, he joined the International Youth Symphony. And by the time he was 17, he played alongside famed cornetist Wild Bill Davison. He has performed the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers, J.C. Heard's Orchestra, James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band and Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, among others. His latest recording is Blue Roof Blues: A Love Letter to New Orleans (Arbors Records). Howard Levy Howard Levy is perhaps best known for taking the standard diatonic harmonica into territory where no one expects it to go — covering the entire musical scale. Anyone who has ever picked up a little Hohner Marine Band can appreciate the feat. He was a founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and he leads two Chicago bands. His recent recordings include Cappuccino, with violinist Fox Fehling, and Secret Dream, with the nine-piece band Chévere de Chicago. Both CDs are on Balkan Samba Records. Geoff Muldaur "There are only three white blues singers," Richard Thompson once said, "and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them." Once you hear Muldaur's otherworldly voice, you know what he meant. He was a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Paul Butterfield's Better Days group, and he has collaborated with Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Jerry Garcia and many other notables. An Emmy-winning composer of scores for television and film, Muldaur's most recent solo CD is Beautiful Isle of Somewhere (HighTone Records). Odetta One of the most celebrated figures in music, Odetta has received numerous honors, including the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she began classical voice training after moving to Los Angeles. She ultimately found her way into the folk music scene in the early 1950s, singing at the Hungry i and the Tin Angel in San Francisco and the Blue Angel in New York. In the decades since, she has released dozens of recordings. In addition, she is a leading voice of social activism around the world. Odetta's latest recording is Gonna Let It Shine (M.C. Records).. Scott Robinson Saxophonist Scott Robinson is also a collector — and player — of rarely heard antique instruments, things like the double-bell euphonium, C-melody sax, ophicleide (an early relative of the tuba) and the humongous contrabass sax. On his most recent CD, Jazz Ambassador: Scott Robinson Plays the Compositions of Louis Armstrong (Arbors Records), he uses these instruments and others to play a collection of Satchmo's tunes. |
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