Kim Nalley: Paying Respect to Aretha
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Monday, Jul 22, 2019 7 PM
Location
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320 Cedar St
Details
Vocalist Kim Nalley has been heralded as “legendary” and a “San Francisco institution.” With an international reputation as one of world’s best jazz and blues vocalists, she has graced concert halls from Moscow to New York’s Lincoln Center. A true renaissance woman, Nalley has also been a featured writer for JazzWest and San Francisco Chronicle‘s ‘City Brights’, a produced playwright, a former jazz club owner, and an accomplished stage actress.
Nalley was listed by DownBeat Magazine critics in 2017 as a “Rising Star”. She is also on faculty at the California Jazz Conservancy. She is a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley’s history department with plans to write her dissertation on the Globalization of Jazz and Black Cultural Politics. On this concert date Nalley celebrates Aretha Franklin with Paying Respect to Aretha. She will be joined by Tammy Hall on piano, Michael Zisman on bass, and Kent Bryson on drums.
