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Gemma Sherry
Since moving to the U.S. eight years ago to study music in NYC, this soul-jazz singer, songwriter & saxophonist has released a number of house music records on various European record labels and has now released 4 studio albums.
Her debut album was "Songs I Love" which she recorded in England with the exquisite pianist Billy Woodman. This was followed by the released of her short play EP "Sings Bossa Nova" which got her a following in Brazil.
After running a widely successful kickstarter campaign during the pandemic in 2020, she released the upbeat cheeky album "Let's Get Serious" which she recorded in Philadelphia, USA. For this album she gathered some of the best NY session musicians such as Paul Bollenbeck on Guitar, George Coleman Jnr on Drums, Eric Wheeler on Double Bass and Rick Germanson on Piano.
There is no stopping this Aussie and certainly not during a pandemic. Keep an eye out for upcoming live performances.
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Gemma Sherry: Music To Dream To
by Jack Bowers
Vocalist Gemma Sherry's fourth album, Music to Dream To, recorded in July 2020, closely follows her third, Let's Get Serious, released less than a year earlier. This latest album expresses Sherry's love for the music of South America in general and Brazilian bossa nova in particular, with half a dozen engaging songs that sway to an irresistible bossa (or samba) beat. Two numbers—"The Telephone Song" and “Keep Talking"—are repeated ("acoustic version," the track listing points out), and even counting the ...
Continue ReadingGemma Sherry: Let's Get Serious
by C. Michael Bailey
A perfect response to challenge and change. In the parlance of the agrarian American South, Gemma Sherry is “makin' hay while the sun shines. Let's Get Serious is the singer's light-as-air, coquettishly coy wink at the COVID-19 pandemic—a wink as opposed to any other response, as Sherry is a true Lady. The title of her third full-length (in 2020 alone) recording is deliciously ironic as the tone is anything but. Globally, this release is best defined in the ...
Continue ReadingGemma Sherry: Gemma Sherry Sings Bossa Nova
by C. Michael Bailey
Gemma Sherry's Songs I Love (Tunley Records, 2020) is not yet a year old, and now she releases an extended-play collection of five tried and true Bossa Nova pieces, that like Songs I Love, did not require one more run-through, save for Sherry's exquisitely well-balanced voice and her rock solid accompaniment who supported the singer previously on Songs I Love. Sherry's treatment of these classic songs is breezy and light. She avoids a humid reading of these melodies, giving them ...
Continue ReadingGemma Sherry: Songs I Love
by C. Michael Bailey
Is it remotely possible that we need yet one more collection of standards from the Great American Songbook? Are computer servers not clotted to the point of infarction with the detritus of recordings by everyone who thinks he or she is a jazz singer? But here is a recording that reminds us why a collection of old songs, performed true to the melody, is so important to American music and her sacred Songbook. Gemma Sherry's Songs I Love is such ...
Continue ReadingGemma Sherry Releases Her Debut Jazz Recording, 'Songs I Love'
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All About Jazz
The impressive young vocalist Gemma Sherry will be hosting CD launch parties in New York and her native Australia singing her favorite repertoire of jazz classics On her debut album Sherry’s luscious voice is joined by pianist Billy Woodman and bassist Mike Waite with a guest appearance by saxophonist Patsy Gamble. The album presents 13 standards from the Great American Songbook in a storytelling style reminiscent of Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae and Blossom Dearie. ...
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Primary Instrument
Vocals
Location
Philadelphia
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Blossom Dearie
piano and vocals
Cannonball Adderley
saxophone
Astrud Gilberto
vocals
Carmen McRae
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Gemma Sherry
Location: Philadelphia
Instrument: Vocals
