Mp3 Ola Hemphill - Join Us In Praise
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Ola Hemphill blends genres of music (gospel, jazz, rhythm blues, opera, etc.) to write, arrange and perform a gospel jazz song that represent different styles of music she's performed over the years. 1 MP3 Songs in this album (1:56) ! Related styles: Spiritual: Contemporary Gospel, Type: Vocal People who are interested in A Creative Jazz Vocalist Rhythm (piano,etc): Joe Sample Scatting: Ella Fitzgerald should consider this download. Details: The song, Join Us In Praise, was written and arranged by Ola Hemphill who also played all instrumentation on a synthesized keyboard and performed lead and background vocals. Ola Hemphill is a unique and versatile vocalist and pianist who has performed in the metro Detroit area for several years. Her performance credits include being band leader of an all female contemporary jazz band in the 1980's and performing as a keyboard player in a major theater gospel hit play, Perilous Times, throughout the 1990's. She also performed as a jazz vocalist with a jazz quartet at world famous Baker's Keyboard Lounge throughout 1997 into early 1998 and sang on a 'Motown Sings Gospel Concert' in August 2005. Famed singers who also participated on this concert included Duke Fakir of The Four Tops, Bobby Rogers of The Miracles, Annette Sterling and Rosalind Ashford of The Original Vandellas and Al Chisholm of The Contours. In 1999 Ola was featured in the March issue of the Jazz Quarterly Magazine. Ola currently has a reputation for being one of the most serious and versatile jazz singers in the metro Detroit area. She loves to scat and attributes her precise style of scatting to several factors that include having perfect pitch, understanding and playing jazz progressions and having multiple opportunities to scat with world famous jazz musicians during jazz jam sessions. Her style of directing a band when she's singing a straight ahead jazz tune is also greatly influenced by her favorite jazz vocalist, famous and deceased jazz singer, Betty Carter. Ola often attends a weekly long running jazz jam session at Bert's Market Place, Detroit, MI. The jam session is in the tenth year and Ola is one of several
performers selected to host the jam session once a year. She is currently completing her first cd that's scheduled to be released fall 2011. The gospel jazz jazz cd, In The Mix, will feature Ola utilizing all of her vocal and piano stylings that originated with gospel music and progressed through genres of music that include rhythm and blues and straight ahead jazz. The cd will include original songs written and arranged by Ola. It will also feature all jazz musicians playing the music under the direction of Ola's awesome and well-known producer/arranger/gospel and jazz pianist, Demetrius Nabors. The cd was recorded in Ferndale, MI at Inner Court Studio where Ola's co-producer, Gregory Pearson, is one of the owners. Ola has also started her own production company to present concerts, plays, musicals, etc. that shes written. Her goal is to develop creative and quality productions that can be presented in small and large venues.
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