Colors, 5303 E. Speedway - from 6:30pm to 9:30pm Friday - July 20th Saturdays
- July 21st, July 28th & August 4th, August 11th, August
18th, August 25th
Where To See Marilyn Play
LIVE - June 2007
Saturday, June 16th - Marilyn will be at the Mt. View
Country Club in Saddlebrooke with Joe Bourne & Co.
- from 7:30pm to 10:00pm
Trivetti's Restaurant &
Piano Bar, 190 W. Continental,
Green Valley
solo piano and vocals - Saturday,
June 2nd, Saturday, June 9th, Sunday,
June 17th and Saturday, June 23rd - from 6:15pm to
8:15pm
Friday, June 29th - Colors, 5303 E. Speedway -
from 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Saturday, June 30th - Old Town Artisans' Hospitality
Event, 201 N. Court Ave. - from 4:00pm to
7:00pm
Where To See Marilyn Play
LIVE - April/May 2007
Monday, May 7th - House Concert at the Z Mansion, 288
N. Church,
(3 blocks north of Broadway, 2 blocks
south of St. Mary's, on the east side of Church). Featuring
the vocal and piano stylings of Lisa Otey, Linda Ackerman
and Marilyn Harris! Enjoy your favorite standards
and original jazz songs in the relaxing and intimate setting
of the Z Mansion parlor on Monday, May 7th at 7pm. Tickets
are $15 and are available online at http://www.lisaotey.com. Seats will be reserved
on a first come, first served basis. There is free parking
in the pay lot across the street.
Friday, May 11th - LGBT Alliance Fund Raiser featuring
Karin Uhlich (Ward 3) as MC, the U of A Tuba Cats
and Marilyn Harris from 6:00pm to 8:30pm. For more
information, please visit http://www.alliancefund.org
Saturdays, April 14th through
May 26th - Trivetti's
Restaurant & Piano Bar, 190 W. Continental, Green Valley
- 6:00pm to 9:00pm.
TJS Presents Live Jazz
at Plaza Colonial
The Tucson Jazz Society presented a WOMEN
IN JAZZ SHOWCASE: Jazz singer-songwriter-pianist Marilyn
Harris joined saxophonist-singer-songwriter "Hurricane"
Carla Brownlee on Saturday, March 10th for a FREE
afternoon of exciting LIVE jazz at Plaza Colonial
shopping center (at Skyline & Campbell) from12:00noon to
3:00pm. The two powerhouse performers played and sang terrific
new songs and old favorites, too! CLICK HERE to see event poster.
British Vocalist
Claire Martin Covers Marilyn Harris Songs
In November 2006 British jazz vocalist
Claire
Martin featured Marilyn's original wry samba "My
Dissipation" on the BBC. Ms. Martin was accompanied
by Richard Rodney Bennett on piano. Ms. Martin also
performed the song in Los Angeles, CA in late December 2006 at
The Vic along with one of Marilyn's writing partners,
Mark
Winkler. Ms. Martin soon plans to add Marilyn's
sassy original "The Wisdom of Sam Kinison" to her set.
L.A. Times jazz reviewer Don Heckman (who was at the L.A.
performance) wrote a great review! Congrats, Claire!
Marilyn Joins Singer
Paul Elia and the Tucson Jazz Orchestra
On Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Marilyn did a concert with the Tucson Jazz Orchestra for
the Tucson
Jazz Society - featuring selections from here latest
Wrightwood
Records big-band CD "Round Trip". Also
on the concert was local crooner Paul Elia - who did a
duet with Marilyn. See video below.
Marilyn has 2 songs (written
with Mark
Winkler) in the new jazz musical "Play It Cool"
- which opened June 9th, 2006 and had an extended
run through July 29th, 2006 at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. The
show is currently being prepared for its New York
City "Off-Broadway" debut - coming up soon! Also,
Marilyn has contributed a new song (entitled "A New Road")
to the original musical revue "The New Normal",
which is having a staged reading at the John Raitt Theater on
June 4th, 2006.
Marilyn's Big Band Jazz
CD ROUND TRIP Climbs The Charts!
Marilyn's
hot new big band jazz CD ROUND TRIP got lots of great
reviews and tons of airplay in the Summer of 2006, peaking on
the JazzWeek charts at #25. ROUND TRIP charted for
16 weeks on MediaGuide and was played all over the world
(Australia, South Africa, The Netherlands, South America, Canada)
and by syndicators "Jazz After Hours" (Jim Wilke),
XM Satellite Radio, RadioIOJazz.com, "Jazz with Bob Parlocha"
and "Modern Jazz Classics" (Bob Stockton). Radio
promotion was handled by Josh Ellman and Mark Rini at Groov
Marketingand Dick LaPalm and Fred Mancusso at DLP. Thanks
to all the DJs for all the spins!
CLICK HERE for sound clips, ordering information
and webpage.
Round Trip Jazz
All-Stars
The L. A. Jazz
All-Stars Big Band was assembled at Entourage Recording in North
Hollywood, California on December 19th, 2005 & February 12th,
2006 for Marilyn Harris' new Wrightwood Records CD entitled,
"Round Trip". (WRCD-1569) Pictured are (from
L to R) Andy Martin, Bill Liston, arranger/producer Mark Wolfram,
John Yoakum, Don Shelton, Bruce Otto, Ralph Humphrey, Wayne Bergeron,
Charlie Loper, Larry Lunetta, Greg Huckins, Warren Luening, Peter
Erskine, Charlie Morillas, Pete Christlieb, Chuck Berghofer,
Jim Fox, Rick Baptist, Dan Higgins, and singer/songwriter Marilyn
Harris.
Marilyn Harris and Bill Watrous relive
days gone by after he soloed on her new CD "Round Trip".
Jazz legend Bob
Dorough shares the microphone with Marilyn as they sing "Cool"
(for Marilyn's upcoming CD "Round Trip") at Tabby Sound,
Ltd. in New York City. Jeremy Goldsmith engineered.
Two big band recording sessions for Marilyn
Harris' new CD "Round Trip" took place at
Entourage Recording in North Hollywood, California - one
on December 19, 2005 and one on February 12th, 2006.(top photo)
They featured an All-Star Big Band of Los Angeles
heavyweights. Also, Marilyn recorded a duet with jazz legend
Bob Dorough at Tabby Sound, Ltd. in New York City. (bottom
photo) "Round Trip" is scheduled
to be released in April 2006. This is one CD you won't
wanna miss!!
CLICK HERE to see the full gallery of session photos.
(L to R) Mark Winkler, David
Basse, Bob Dorough, Ray Passman & Marilyn Harris at
the 2006 IAJE annual conference in New York City.
From L-to-R: Marilyn Harris (kybds./vocals), Billy
Crist (bass), and John Nasshan (drums) play at The
Whitney Library Concert Hall in Las Vegas, NV for the Las
Vegas Jazz Society.
Sunday afternoon, September 18th,
2005, Marilyn Harris was the featured artist in the Las Vegas Jazz
Society's Fall Concert Series at The Whitney Library Concert Hall in Las
Vegas, NV. The concert featured Marilyn singing and playing
her original music & lyrics along with many well-known standards.
LVJS President Paul Coladarci was the MC for the event
- and Marilyn was backed by Billy Crist (bass) and John
Nasshan (drums).
Marilyn
Plays for TJS at St. Phillips
From L-to-R: Marilyn Harris (kybds./vocals), Ed
Friedland (bass), Mike Kuhn (reeds), Fred Hayes
(drums) and Matt Mitchell (guitar) play at St. Phillips
Plaza for the Tucson Jazz Society.
Sunday night, May 1st, 2005,
Marilyn Harris was the featured artist in the Tucson Jazz Society's Spring Concert
Series at St. Phillips Plaza. The concert highlighted many Marilyn
Harris originals (old and new) mixed in with some standards.
Jazz Singer Joe
Bourne was the MC for the evening - and Marilyn was backed
by the quartet of Ed
Friedland (bass), Fred Hayes (drums), Matt Mitchell (guitar), and Mike Kuhn
(Reeds).
On April 9, 2005 the IAJE
Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago, Illinois presented
a panel entitled, "Releasing Your Indie Jazz CD". The
panel was moderated by Marilyn Harris and included independent
jazz artists Orbert Davis, Bobby Lewis, Joanie
Pallatto and Judy Roberts.
FUTURE
STREET Nominated for "Twirlie" Award
January
29, 2005 - Marilyn Harris' jazz CD FUTURE STREET was nominated
for a "Twirlie" award in the "Best Female
Jazz Vocal" category. This is the fifth annual presentation
of these awards (dubbed "a celebration of subjectivity,
cronyism and partiality for jazz excellence") - given by
the Jazz Programmers List.
Marilyn was a panelist
at the January 2005 IAJE annual conference in Long Beach,
CA. The panel, entitled, "Adding Pages To The Great American
Song Book", was moderated by Mark Winkler and discussed the art and
business of creating original NEW jazz songs and how to
market their inclusion into the jazz, cabaret, and pop repertoire.
Each panelist also performed one of their latest creations.
Wrightwood
Records released a CD-Single for the holiday season featuring
two Marilyn Harris recordings:
"MAKE ANOTHER MEMORY
& "THE WISDOM OF
SAM KINISON"
Both songs received national
radio airplay throughout the holiday season.
Wrightwood Records is proud to release
the 4th in their series of meditation and relaxation CDs entitled,
"Unicorn's Journey". Harpist Stephanie Bennett joins forces with Marilyn
Harris to create over 60 minutes of new music designed with "Ahhh"
in mind. Hear MP3 samples and order online at the Wrightwood
Records website by clicking on the CD cover - and relax and enjoy!!!
April 13, 2004
is the official STREET RELEASE date for Marilyn's new CD "Future
Street." Be sure to listen for it on your favorite local
jazz radio station. If you don't hear it - CALL THEM and request
a cut from "Future Street." Only the listening fans
have the power to put this CD over the top. Also, watch for Marilyn's
26-state "The Future is NOW!" tour - coming to a town
near YOU!
Marilyn
developed and moderated this songwriter panel at the 2004 IAJE
convention in New York City. Panel members/jazz
songwriters Bob
Dorough, Lorraine
Feather,Bruce Brown and Mark Winkler discussed the art and business
of creatingoriginal NEW jazz songs,
marketing their inclusion in the jazz/cabaret/pop repertoire,and then performed examples of their newest creations.
Marilyn
performs at New York City's legendary Birdland on January 20,
2004 with Cameron Brown (bass), Cornelius Bumpus
(sax) and Billy Drummond (Drums).
CLICK HERE for sound clips, ordering information
and webpage.
Together with Mara Purl and Mark Wolfram, Marilyn collaborated in the creation
and recording of her 3rd new meditation and relaxation CD of
the summer - a holiday feast entitled, A Koto Keys Christmas - and as they say on TV, "It makes
the PERFECT holiday gift!"
Multi-woodwind specialist Phil Feather, Mark Wolfram and Marilyn collaborated in the
creation and recording of a new Wrightwood Records CD of Exotic
Woodwind and Acoustic Piano music for relaxation and meditation: Winds on Ivory
A new recording of Marilyn's chamber work INTERLUDES
FOR PERCUSSION AND TRUMPET, performed by John Pennington
& Stephen Dunn, has been released on CD by Equilibrium Records
- sound samples available at TOWER RECORDS
Together with Mara Purl and Mark Wolfram, Marilyn collaborated in the creation
and recording of the recent Wrightwood Records CD of meditation/relaxation
music: KOTO KEYS
Marilyn continues to be busy performing musicology analysis and clearance for various
clients in the legal, entertainment and advertising fields.
New York City's fabulous Swingirls
- a vocal trio - recently featured three songs by Marilyn Harris
in their new act: "Extra Baggage", "Ain't Got
Nothin' On You" and "New York, New Haven & Hartford."
Marilyn also did the arrangements on all three songs.
L-O-N-G-E-R sound
samples of every cut on Marilyn's first CD "Between The Lines" are available to hear online at CDBaby.com
Marilyn
recently composed several new songs for A. E. Alfred Wolfram's
original stageplay "An American Odyssey." The
music was all written and performed in the style of the fictitious
1930s dance band Marty Marflow and the Melody Makers. Marilyn
performed the voices of Frau Lili von Lake and The Calhoun Sisters.
You can hear sound samples of the CD HERE.
In May 2003 Marilyn played to a sold-out
crowd as part of Judi Silvano's vocal jazz concert series
at Cornelia
Street Cafe in New York City. Joining her on stage were vocalists
Judi, Carol
Heffler, Pat Monahan & Linda Harris, drummer Richard
Crooks and bassist Stuart Woods.
A few years ago
a friend (Kevin Bassinson) approached Marilyn to write
lyrics to a song he was pitching to an indie film - they recorded
it, but the film never happened. Recently, while Kevin
was working as a music editor on the Hallmark Hall of Fame
presentation "My Sister's Keeper", he had occasion
to play that song for the producers - and they liked it enough
to put it in the film!
The film stars Kathy Bates, Elizabeth
Perkins and Lynn Redgrave and is based on a true story
which revolves around two sisters' journey of self-discovery
and the relationship that ultimately enriches both of their lives.
It aired on CBS on January 27th,
2002 at 9:00pm (Eastern & Pacific) - 8:00pm (Central)
The song is entitled "EVERYBODY
KNOWS" (Words & Music by Marilyn Harris and Kevin
Bassinson) and is used in the movie in the first 10 minutes.
A PERSONAL NOTE FROM MARILYN:From January 10th through January 12th, 2002 I
attended the International Association for Jazz Education
conference, (www.iaje.org)
and it was a BLAST! After WAY too many years,
I caught up with my former boss, Don Sickler (from my
first job at a music publisher in New York), who made a terrific
presentation for his company, www.secondfloormusic.com. I also
caught up with multi-instrumentalist Tom "Bones"
Malone (he's in a couple pix from our Gil Evans' days
on www.marilynharris.com/bandphotos1.html)
- and trumpeter Marvin Stamm (www.marvinstamm.com), arranger Dave
Berger (www.sultansofswing.com), as well as vocalist
Diane Hubka (www.dianehubka.com), trombonist Bill
Watrous, reedman Dave Sherr, vocalist Tierney Sutton
(www.tierneysutton.com),
arranger Sammy Nestico, vocalist/bassist Kristin Korb
(www.kristinkorb.com),
Chicago vocalist Bobbi Wilsyn, vocalist/reedman Don
Shelton - I even ran into my childhood inspiration, Dave
Brubeck, and gave him my CD! I saw some wonderful,
inspiring performers like Airto (www.airto.com), Pat Harbison (www.patharbison.com)
and Rhiannon (www.rhiannonmusic.com). On the
drive down and back to Long Beach, on KLON, I got to hear a terrific
song by pianist/singer Bruce Brown entitled "I CAN'T
BE CHOOSY" - take a listen at his site: http://www.brucebrown.net - (I really
like the title track, "I BELIEVE IT", too!).
What came through loud and clear for me from this experience
was the spiritual impact that music can have - and a renewed
gratitude for the education I received and continue to receive
from all the teachers in my life - especially Hale Smith,
who showed me so many years ago how it was possible for me to
have a career in music. He and all my other influences
and inspirations encourage and support me, and I'm deeply grateful.
Marilyn recently contributed a gruesome
tale about the music business to
MUSIC HORROR STORIES A
Collection of Gruesome True Tales
Having fully recovered from the terror,
Marilyn's hard at work on her next CD!
Windham Hill Records' Love Songs Collection "Jim Brickman's
Visions of Love" is at your favorite record store NOW
or you can order it on-line. Check out the great reviews
onamazon.com.
The album features the new song "Like
Love" a vocal duet by Marilyn Harris & Phillip Ingram
(brother of James Ingram) and co-written by Marilyn & Angel
Garcia. Production & Arrangement are by Marilyn and Mark
Wolfram.
You can hear an MP3 sample of "Like
Love" by clicking on the "Visions of Love"
Album Cover to the left.
February 1999 found Marilyn collaborating
with playwrights at the Nautilus Musical Theater Studio.
In July 1999 Marilyn co-produced and arranged four tracks for
vocalist John Trones' upcoming release. Currently, Marilyn
is in the studio working on her next CD which includes another
duet with Phillip Ingram, an instrumental with saxophonist
Dan Higgins, and a great new song co-written with Jim
Brickman.
To hear a sneak preview from this upcoming
new album click the photo of Marilyn & Phillip singing (to
the right).
In November 2006 British jazz vocalist
Marilyn's
hot new big band jazz CD ROUND TRIP got lots of great
reviews and tons of airplay in the Summer of 2006, peaking on
the JazzWeek charts at #25. ROUND TRIP charted for
16 weeks on MediaGuide and was played all over the world
(Australia, South Africa, The Netherlands, South America, Canada)
and by syndicators "Jazz After Hours" (Jim Wilke),
XM Satellite Radio, RadioIOJazz.com, "Jazz with Bob Parlocha"
and "Modern Jazz Classics" (Bob Stockton). Radio
promotion was handled by Josh Ellman and Mark Rini at Groov
Marketing and Dick LaPalm and Fred Mancusso at DLP. Thanks
to all the DJs for all the spins!
Marilyn Harris and Bill Watrous relive
days gone by after he soloed
From L-to-R: Marilyn Harris (kybds./vocals), Billy
Crist (bass), and John Nasshan (drums) play at The
Whitney Library Concert Hall in Las Vegas, NV for the Las
Vegas Jazz Society.
From L-to-R: Marilyn Harris (kybds./vocals), Ed
Friedland (bass), Mike Kuhn (reeds), Fred Hayes
(drums) and Matt Mitchell (guitar) play at St. Phillips
Plaza for the Tucson Jazz Society.
From L-to-R: Moderator Marilyn Harris with panelists
January
29, 2005 - Marilyn Harris' jazz CD FUTURE STREET was nominated
for a "Twirlie" award in the "Best Female
Jazz Vocal" category. This is the fifth annual presentation
of these awards (dubbed "a celebration of subjectivity,
cronyism and partiality for jazz excellence") - given by
the Jazz Programmers List.
New York City's fabulous Swingirls
- a vocal trio - recently featured three songs by Marilyn Harris
in their new act: "Extra Baggage", "Ain't Got
Nothin' On You" and "New York, New Haven & Hartford."
Marilyn also did the arrangements on all three songs.
In May 2003 Marilyn played to a sold-out
crowd as part of 
A few years ago
a friend (Kevin Bassinson) approached Marilyn to write
lyrics to a song he was pitching to an indie film - they recorded
it, but the film never happened. Recently, while Kevin
was working as a music editor on the Hallmark Hall of Fame
presentation "My Sister's Keeper", he had occasion
to play that song for the producers - and they liked it enough
to put it in the film!
