"A songbird of a jazz vocalist" (The New York Times), Julia Keefe is a Native American singer, educator, and activist based in New York whose latest work is The Mildred Bailey Project, a tribute to the legendary "Queen of Swing."
Paralleling Bailey's life, Keefe is also an Idaho-born singer of Indigenous heritage with a masteful command of the Great American Songbook and grew up in Spokane, Washington. A member of the Nez Perce tribe, Keefe began her musical journey as a youth, and earned a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music. She's made a splash on the New York scene, working with Jim McNeely, Emmet Cohen, Billy Test, Dan Hearle, Andreas Oberg, Bob Bowman, Clipper Anderson, Jack Mouse, the Lionel Hampton Big Band, among others.
She is currently directing the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band, a new project highlighting the history and future of Indigenous people in jazz, and the Mildred Bailey Project, which she brings to SFJAZZ for these Joe Henderson Lab performances.
On the heels of her well-received EP Nobody Else but Me, Keefe's latest release is a single from the Mildred Bailey project, "Lover, Come Back to Me," the classic Sigmund Romburg/Oscar Hammerstein composition that the late Swing Era singer famously recorded for the Vocalion label in 1938.
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Paralleling Bailey's life, Keefe is also an Idaho-born singer of Indigenous heritage with a masteful command of the Great American Songbook and grew up in Spokane, Washington. A member of the Nez Perce tribe, Keefe began her musical journey as a youth, and earned a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music. She's made a splash on the New York scene, working with Jim McNeely, Emmet Cohen, Billy Test, Dan Hearle, Andreas Oberg, Bob Bowman, Clipper Anderson, Jack Mouse, the Lionel Hampton Big Band, among others.
She is currently directing the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band, a new project highlighting the history and future of Indigenous people in jazz, and the Mildred Bailey Project, which she brings to SFJAZZ for these Joe Henderson Lab performances.
On the heels of her well-received EP Nobody Else but Me, Keefe's latest release is a single from the Mildred Bailey project, "Lover, Come Back to Me," the classic Sigmund Romburg/Oscar Hammerstein composition that the late Swing Era singer famously recorded for the Vocalion label in 1938.
"A songbird of a jazz vocalist" (The New York Times), Julia Keefe is a Native American singer, educator, and activist based in New York whose latest work is The Mildred Bailey Project, a tribute to the legendary "Queen of Swing."
Paralleling Bailey's life, Keefe is also an Idaho-born singer of Indigenous heritage with a masteful command of the Great American Songbook and grew up in Spokane, Washington. A member of the Nez Perce tribe, Keefe began her musical journey as a youth, and earned a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music. She's made a splash on the New York scene, working with Jim McNeely, Emmet Cohen, Billy Test, Dan Hearle, Andreas Oberg, Bob Bowman, Clipper Anderson, Jack Mouse, the Lionel Hampton Big Band, among others.
She is currently directing the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band, a new project highlighting the history and future of Indigenous people in jazz, and the Mildred Bailey Project, which she brings to SFJAZZ for these Joe Henderson Lab performances.
On the heels of her well-received EP Nobody Else but Me, Keefe's latest release is a single from the Mildred Bailey project, "Lover, Come Back to Me," the classic Sigmund Romburg/Oscar Hammerstein composition that the late Swing Era singer famously recorded for the Vocalion label in 1938.
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Paralleling Bailey's life, Keefe is also an Idaho-born singer of Indigenous heritage with a masteful command of the Great American Songbook and grew up in Spokane, Washington. A member of the Nez Perce tribe, Keefe began her musical journey as a youth, and earned a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music. She's made a splash on the New York scene, working with Jim McNeely, Emmet Cohen, Billy Test, Dan Hearle, Andreas Oberg, Bob Bowman, Clipper Anderson, Jack Mouse, the Lionel Hampton Big Band, among others.
She is currently directing the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band, a new project highlighting the history and future of Indigenous people in jazz, and the Mildred Bailey Project, which she brings to SFJAZZ for these Joe Henderson Lab performances.
On the heels of her well-received EP Nobody Else but Me, Keefe's latest release is a single from the Mildred Bailey project, "Lover, Come Back to Me," the classic Sigmund Romburg/Oscar Hammerstein composition that the late Swing Era singer famously recorded for the Vocalion label in 1938.
show less
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