“Chanteuse Extraordinaire” —Rockford Register Star A Great American Songbook Experience “She will delight you with her warmth and smile as her voice touches your soul.” Jodi Beach The art, beauty, and grace of vocal jazz Art is, by it's very nature, something that inspires emotion in the beholder. No other form of art can so quickly, so exactly, call up such an impacting range of emotions as vocal jazz. Elegant ballads, beautiful love songs, warm swaying Latin rhythms, hot stomping swings, all take the listener through a lifetime of memories in a matter of minutes. Melody and lyric surround us everywhere, not by chance but by design because these are essential elements of life. Jodi Beach is not simply a singer/pianist, she is a story teller, a theme weaver, a scrapbook of our lives presented in song. Her performances walk the listener through a gallery of fine works by the masters and let them linger in their grace. “Timeless” best describes a Jodi Beach concert. Music that is as alive today as it was when first born, enjoyed by audiences young and old, all touched by these “essential elements of life.” Jodi Lynn Beach As a member of the National Independent Artist’s Registry, the Illinois Arts Council Artstour Roster, and the RAMI (Rockford Area Music Industry) Hall of Fame, Jodi has earned much acclaim. A 9-time RAMI and 5-time “Best of” On The Waterfront Music Festival Award winning jazz musician, she and her Trio regularly perform throughout the country. Their 2014 inspirational release, “You Are Not Alone,” earned Jodi a Song of the Year RAMI Award for the title track. The Trio’s 2010 release, “West of the Moon,” earned The Jodi Beach Trio the RAMI for Album of the Year. If you ask her mother when Jodi first began to sing, she will look at you with a very sincere face and ask, “When hasn’t she?” Truly from birth Jodi has been warming people’s hearts with pure and beautiful vocal tones. At the age of five she started piano lessons and could read sheet music before she could read English. Though Jodi can bang out notes with the best of them she has never been one to “trade solos and go home.” She can always be heard playing well thought out and rehearsed arrangements that pull at your heartstrings one minute, have you dancing the next, and always treat you to the thing she loves to do the most…SING! “Jodi Beach is a versatile and radiant performer who has RECORDINGS the knack of making an audience feel like they are her best friends.” You Are Not Alone Steven Larsen Release Date: November 2014 Music Director of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra West of the Moon “Jodi Beach not only sings fantastically; She Release Date: December 2010 communicates. She draws you in. She is the highest compliment of what a singer would hope to be!” Christmas Otis Skillings Release Date: November 2006 Composer, Arranger, Conductor The Love of God Released: August 2005 In Other Words Release Date: October 2004 (Released in Japan December 2004) The Very Thought of You Release Date: September 2002 (Released in Japan July 2004) 815.979.1937 www.jodibeach.com Past Performances EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS Rockford Symphony Orchestra - Guest Soloist Empire Room – Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Illinois State University Concerts On The Quad – Normal, IL Kishwaukee Fest Jazz At The Mansion - DeKalb, IL School of the Art Institute - Chicago, IL Boone County Arts Council Concert Series Byron Forest Preserve Summer Concert Series On the Waterfront Music Festival – Rockford, IL Anderson Gardens “Tuesday in Garden” Summer Concert Series Rockford Park District Music in the Parks Summer Concert Series Nicholas Conservatory Tunes on the Terrace Summer Concert Series Nicholas Conservatory Sounds of the Season Holiday Concert Series Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center Artists Series “Music on Chicago” Festival – Freeport, IL Harrah’s Casino - East Chicago, IL Chicago Hilton Towers Trump Tower – Chicago, IL Cherry Valley Days Festival Mt. Carroll MayFest Kable Concert Band - Mt. Morris, IL - Guest Soloist Kishwaukee Valley Concert Band - Guest Soloist Legends of Jazz: Ladies of Jazz RAMI Awards Ceremony Tinker Swiss Cottage Summer Concert Series Concerts on the Creek Summer Concert Series Sun City Retirement Community- Huntley, IL Hudson House - Nyack, NY Illinois Beach State Park Resort - Zion, IL Camp Fuller Festival Midway Village and Museum Center Burpee Museum of Natural History LaPaloma Gardens’ Garden Glory Walk Arrowhead Country Club - Aurora, IL Lake Geneva Country Club - Lake Geneva, WI Oregon Country Club - Oregon, IL Private Organizations Including: Aids Care NetworkvEpilepsy Associationv Habitat for Humanity American Cancer Societyv Lutheran Social Services of Illinois The Salvation Army vSwedishAmerican Hospital v Monroe Arts Center Jodi Lynn Beachv815 C StreetvRockford, IL 61107v815.979.1937vwww.jodibeach.com Jodi Beach Trio & Ensemble–Sample Song List “A” Train I’m Beginning to See the Light Slow Hot Wind (Lujon) Accentuate the Positive I’ve Got A Crush on You Smile Alice in Wonderland I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me So What All I Do Is Dream of You I’ve Got The World On A String Someday My Prince Will Come All of Me I’ve Got You Under My Skin Someone To Watch Over Me Almost Like Being In Love Imagination Something’s Gotta Give America The Beautiful It Don’t Mean a Thing Song for My Father And The Angels Sing It Had To Be You Speak Low Autumn Leaves It’s Too Late St.Thomas Baby You're Mine Java Jive Stardust Basin Street Blues Jersey Bounce Star Eyes Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen Jump for Me Steam Heat Besame Mucho Just In Time Stormy Weather The Best Is Yet To Come La Vie En Rose Straighten Up & Fly Right The Best Things Happen While… The Lady Is A Tramp Sugar Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered Let It Snow Summer Samba (So Nice) Black Orpheus L'il Darlin' Summertime Blue Bossa Linus & Lucy Summer Wind Blue Skies Little Did I Dream Take Five Cantalope Island Little Sunflower Tangerine Caravan Look of Love Teach Me Tonight Catch A Falling Star/Swinging L-O-V-E Tenderly Child is Born Love Is Here To Stay That’s All Come Rain or Come Shine Loverman Them There Eyes Crazy Lullaby of Birdland There Will Never Be Another You Cry Me a River Masquerade They All Laughed Day By Day Miles Away They Can’t Take That Away Days of Wine & Roses Misty Time After Time Deep Purple Moondance Too Marvelous For Words Desafinado Moonglow Tuxedo Junction Dig that Crazy Sound Moonlight Up Downtown Dindi Moonlight Becomes You Unforgettable Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Moon River The Very Thought Of You Dream More Than You Know Way You Look Tonight Dream A Little Dream of Me My Favorite Things We’ll Meet Again East of the Sun My Funny Valentine What A Wonderful World Easy to Love My One and Only Love What Are You Doing The Rest? Fever My Song Is You When October Goes Fly me To The Moon Nature Boy When Sunny Gets Blue Foggy Day The Nearness of You When You Wish Upon a Star Frim Fram Sauce Nice 'N' Easy Willow Weep for Me Georgia Night and Day Wink & A Smile Girl From Ipanema Night In Tunisia Witchcraft Girl Talk No More Blues (Chega de Saudade) You & the Night & the Music Give Me The Simple Life On The Sunny Side of the St. You Go To My Head God Bless America One Note Samba You Must Believe in Spring God Bless the Child Orange Colored Sky You Stepped Out of a Dream Green Dolphin Street Over the Rainbow You’d Be So Nice… Hit the Road to Dreamland Paper Moon You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody… How About You? Peel Me a Grape Your Touch How Deep Is the Ocean Popsicle Toes How High the Moon Pure Imagination …And many more I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Quiet Nights & Quiet Stars --Seasonal Favorites I Could Write A Book Route 66 --Special Requests I Feel The Earth Move S’Wonderful --Special Occasion Songs I Got Rhythm Satin Doll I Left My Heart In San Francisco Scotch & Soda www.jodibeach.com I Love Being Here With You Scrapple From the Apple I Love Paris The Second Time Around I Thought About You Shadow of Your Smile (The) I Won’t Dance Skylark “ ... a versatile and radiant performer who has the knack of making an audience feel like they are her best friends.” — Maestro Steve Larson Rockford Symphony www.jodibeach.com 815-979-1937.