“I love this record...This young lady has bags of talent (which) even Konitz concedes amusingly in the liners.” (★★★★½ ) Down Beat “Alto saxophonists, one fifteen, the other eighty, on the same wavelength, enjoying one another’s company. As I wrote near the time this was being recorded, Ms.Kelly is a phenomenon -- not a precociously talented child, but a complete improvising musician. With Konitz, one of the great individualists in jazz, she is a peer. On the tracks featuring her in duo with drummer Matt Wilson, guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Rufus Reid, she is resourceful and satisfying. Wow.” Arts Journal “What if I told you that the future of jazz, which many have pronounced dead or dying in the last two decades, rested in the hands of a 16-year-old Korean-American saxophonist named Grace Kelly?” David Was/Day to Day GRACEFULLEE GRACE KELLY LEE KONITZ GRACE KELLY is a saxophonist, singer songwriter, composer/ arranger from Brookline, Massachusetts. Having studied saxophone since the age of ten, she is rapidly making her way up in the jazz music world. Grace’s talents far outstrip others her age. Now just sixteen, Grace has already recorded and/or performed with many notable musicians: Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Dave Brubeck, Hank Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., Frank Morgan, Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton, Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland, Russell Malone, Rufus Reid, Matt Wilson, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jerry Bergonzi, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dianne Reeves, Chris Potter, Adam Rogers, Christian Scott, Billy Hart, George Cables, Ronnie Matthews, Ray Drummond, Peter Bernstein, and James Cotton, among others. Grace has performed around the world in many notable venues in the U.S., Europe and Asia such as Carnegie Hall, Birdland, Dizzy’s Club Cocoa Cola, Scullers Jazz Club, Regatta Bar, Dakota Jazz Club, Kennedy Center, Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, Blues Alley, Newport Blues Café, Boston Symphony Hall, Jazz Standard, Pabst Theater, 50th Grammy Awards (after party), Jazz GRACE KELLY alto Bakery (LA), Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Mary Lou Williams Jazz LEE KONITZ alto Festival (Kennedy Center) and in venues as far away as Tromso, RUSSELL MALONE guitar Norway, Salzau, Germany and Seoul, Korea. RUFUS REID bass MATT WILSON drums Media appearances include NPR “Day To Day”, NPR “Here and Now”, NPR “Piano Jazz”, “5 to Watch in 2009” WCVB TV, “Chronicle”, WGBH with Eric Jackson, XM Radio, WICN, KSFR, KCSM, CBS TV4, I have had the pleasure over these many musical years to play with different Fox 25 News, NECN, EBS Radio and EBS TV and numerous radio musicians around the world; and have been delighted at how responsive so interviews. Featured in national media in U.S., Europe and Asia such many of these talented people have been to me, then giving me an opportunity as: LA Times, Downbeat, Jazziz, Jazz Times, Jazztitek, Chosun Daily to respond to them in return. This is what it is all about to me. I met Grace when News, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and many others. she was 13 years old-and she gave me three of her CD’s. She is now 15 and a fearless young improviser, and besides that she is fun to be around. Now I Grace appeared as special guest artist for two nights with Keith have a new friend in Grace who at this very young age is ‘seriously’ interested in Lockhart and the Boston Pops 2007 Jazz Series. One of the playing the saxophone and more. selections Grace performed was her award-winning composition Grace had invited me to play a few tunes on her new CD but once we got into “Every Road I Walked” which she arranged for the entire Pops the studio there were many inspired moments and it turned out to be a whole orchestra, her first arrangement for an orchestra and strings. Grace CD on its own. I gave her permission to play better than me, if she just couldn’t also performed with Diane Reeves and the Boston Pops Orchestra. stand it anymore. With this great rhythm section it was a pleasure to be a part of the musical process and experience. LEE KONITZ HONORS AND AWARDS Recipient of the 2008 Francis B. Lanier Award NEC Prep School (Youngest ever and first non-classical musician to receive the award). Recipient of the ASCAP Foundation 2008 Young Jazz Composers Award for the composition “101 (Mood Changes).” Recipient of the ASCAP Foundation 2007 Young Jazz Composers Award for the title track of “Every Road I Walked” Performed at the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Annual Awards in New York. Voted “Best Jazz Act” in Boston 2008 FNX/Phoenix Best Music Poll. Winner “Outstanding Jazz Act of the Year” 2008 Boston Music Awards Winner of four 2008 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards: Jazz Instrumentalist, Jazz Vocalist, Extended Original Composition “101”, Arrangement “I Want To Be Happy.” Winner of 2007 Downbeat Student Music Award, Arrangement “Summertime” (Every Road I Walked). Winner of four 2006 Downbeat Student Music Awards: Jazz Instrumentalist, Pop/Rock/Blues Instrumentalist, Original Composition “Fast Metabolism” (Times Too), Jazz Vocalist–Outstanding Performance. Recipient of the Berklee College of Music Superior Musicianship Award at 2007 Berklee High School Jazz Festival. Grace Kelly was the youngest ever winner of Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship at the 2006 East Coast Jazz Festival. Winner of International Songwriting Competition 2008 for “101.” Winner of two International Songwriting Competitions in 2006 & 2007 for her composition “Filosophical Flying Fish” (Every Road I Walked). Grace Kelly was judged the top woodwind soloist and the top vocal alto soloist at the 2007 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. PAZZ PRODUCTIONS LLC PO Box 471059 Brookline, MA. 02447 USA WWW.GRACEKELLYMUSIC.COM ph 617-306-2163 fax 781-400-5728 [email protected].