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Ann Hampton Callaway is a multi-platinum and award-winning artist as well as a maverick and inspiring spirit in the entertainment world. In an age preoccupied with terms and categories, she has successfully paved her own path, dazzling audiences not only as a singer and pianist but also as a songwriter and actress. Ann’s far-reaching talents have made her equally at home in the worlds of jazz, pop and cabaret as well as in the recording studio and on TV.
Highly regarded for her performance in the hit Broadway musical SWING! and for her witty writing and singing of the theme to the hit TV series, THE NANNY, Ann Hampton Callaway is full of surprises. Her charisma, intelligence, and spontaneity have won her a diverse fan-base including such notables as Barbra Streisand, Carol King, Robert DeNiro and Wynton Marsalis.
Her latest CD, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, her debut project for Telarc Records, is a dynamic and stirring collection of American Songbook Classics mixed with potent and witty original songs. The recording contains several jazz standards, but with arrangements and interpretations far from standard. Joined by an all-star cast including Ted Rosenthal, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash, Sherrie Maricle and her all-female jazz band DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA. Ann notes, “this album is my feistiest, gutsiest, album yet. Of all my recordings, this one comes closest to the feel of a live concert.”
RECENT QUOTES:
“…if there was ever a vocalist to follow in the footsteps of Ella Fitzgerald by recording composer songbooks, it’s got to be Ann Hampton Callaway.”
Show Business“a pop-jazz powerhouse”
New York Times“Callaway establishes herself as of the best equipped jazz vocalists swinging today.”
Chicago Tribune“Astonishing.”
Los Angeles Weekly