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Scatt Summit featuring Sharon Clark, Christy Dashiell & Ashley Pezzotti

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Sharón Clark

Encouraged to make jazz a career by her father and high school music teacher, Sharón Clark began her professional career with the Bottle Caps doing promotional work for the Coca Cola Company. The other “Bottle Cap” was her twin sister, Sharee. Leaving Coke to fend for itself, she got her first significant jazz gig at King’s Dominion just outside of Richmond, Virginia. Since then, she has since performed at such jazz and non-jazz venues as Blues Alley, the National Press Club, and Twins Lounge in Washington, D.C., and Sweet Basel in New York City. Equally adept with jazz, blues, and gospel, Clark has a husky but mellow voice with good phrasing and diction. She is also a fine interpreter of lyrics. For her first album Finally, released by the Union Records in 1997, she chose a play list which gives her the opportunity to bring out her vocal dexterity and comfort level with up t po songs and ballads. Listing Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Hartman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Doris Day as musical influences, Clark continues to work in the Washington, D.C. area with a steady gig at Laportas Jazz Lounge in Alexandria, Virginia.

Christie Dashiell

Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Greenville, NC, contemporary jazz vocalist Christie N. Dashiell honed her skills at Howard University and later at the Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Dashiell’s trajectory includeSemperformances with Howard’s premiere vocal jazz ensemble, Afro Blue. She has also performed at the Kennedy Center as a participant in the 2010 Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program; at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C.; and, as a part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People program. She is the recipient of DownBeat magazine’s Best College Graduate Jazz Vocalist and Outstanding Soloist awards in the jazz vocal category. Most recently, Ms. Dashiell appeared on season three of NBC’s The Sing-Off, as a member of Afro Blue. She can be heard on several nationally released recordings including John Blake’s Motherless Child, The Jolley Brothers’ memoirs Between Brothers, and as a Kennedy Center Discovery Artist on NPR’s JazzSet hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater. She has since performed in concert withemesperanza Spalding, Fred Hammond, Smokey Robinson, Geri Allen, and Allan Harris.

 

Ashley Pezzotti

New York vocalist and composer Ashley Pezzotti discovered her love for music when her Dominican father would sing her classic Spanish songs to sleep. She began taking voice lessons at only 4 years old, and in 2018 she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music with a full tuition scholarship. In the spring of 2019, Ashley participated in the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program where she was gained invaluable mentorship by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jason Moran and Marcus Printup. She is also a 2021 alumni of Dee Dee Bridgewater’s Woodshed Network program. At the young age of 26 years old, Ashley has performed with renowned artists such as Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, Arturo Sandoval, Joey Alexander, Dave Holland, Jon Secada, and country star Keith Urban. She has also performed as a leader at prestigious venues such as Birdland Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club, Blue Note Jazz Club, The Jazz Showcase, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, Stockholm Concert Hall, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.

 

Date

Feb 19 2023
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Time

7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Location

Ronnie Wells Main Stage
Hilton Hotel -1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852
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