Thank you for making the FILLMORE JAZZ FESTIVAL
such a grrrreat time! A special shout out to Demitri for he and his friend’s amazing break-dancing performance during “Ain’t Dead Yet”

This just in:   New COOL Video of Fillmore Jazz featuring the music of the Lisa Engelken Band!
Take a peek!

and… listen for Caravan on the SIRIUS Jazz Channel!

The CD Release Concert Celebration of CARAVAN was a resounding success:  a sold-out house of mind, body and spirit!  The band slammed!
The world was right again, if just for one evening!

Erin Gray, columnist for the Monterey Herald, described Engelken’s live performance as…

“BOLD, lush, exotic and just a little bit dangerous, like waves of sound and heat:   EVEL KNEIVEL and JANIS JOPLIN.   Like Evel, she is a fearless daredevil, but never reckless, knowing exactly whether her voice can jump through a ring of fire and over 30 elephants – or whether it can go for 31.  And like Janis, she gives every ounce of herself onstage.”

Caravan (listen to samples under the “Music” tab)

CARAVAN features 10 of Lisa’s fresh treatments of standards, Brazilian, and contemporary selections  by such varied composers as Tizol & Ellington, Joni Mitchell, Baden Powell, Cole Porter and Billy Idol.

In addition, Caravan boasts the debut of “From the Earth”:  her new vocal arrangement of FREDDIE HUBBARD’s classic “Red Clay”.

Lisa was inspired to pen original lyrics to Mr. Hubbard’s funky jazz classic, and is grateful to have received his personal review and permission to record “From the Earth” – one of the last works approved by the late-great trumpter.

Lisa Engelken is a fearless singer and charismatic performing artist.  With horn-like phrasing and tonal clarity, Lisa puts a chill back into jazz vocals.  Lisa careens through a myriad of moods & vocal styles, spicing her tunes with Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian.

Engelken doesn’t just sing a song, she devours it!   Part freight train, part junkyard trombone, the tumbleweed Engelken alternately locomotes and floats through tunes.  Her operatic and theatrical training couldn’t polish off the rough edges as she wields a unique vocal style that can be as tonic as a New York cab ride and as sultry as the mossy moon of New Orleans.

NEW REVIEW  JazzTimes.com •  Albums •  By Jeff Glass

She’s Really Saying Something:
Lisa Engelken takes us on a voyage to the frontiers of vocal jazz

“Caravan, in short, is a stunning, moving, and beautiful work that announces the arrival of an intelligent, fearless vocal perfectionist on the jazz landscape. Turn “shuffle” off and listen to the CD front to back to appreciate all the nuance great vocal jazz has to offer.”

READ FULL REVIEW

UPCOMING RADIO APPEARANCES:

*Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 1:30pm:  Lisa will chat with Arturo Gomez at KUVO (89.3 FM, Denver, CO) regarding past, present and future musical projects-  including her appearance at Dazzle Jazz on Thursday, July 29th with the Steve Denny Trio + Gabe Mervin on Trumpet!

For past radio appearances and archived shows, please go to PRESS Tab.

You can directly support Lisa’s work by ordering from this site….OR…

CARAVAN is also available for download!

at iTunes cdbaby.com and at amazon.com

Also available at Amoeba Music at 1855 haight street in san francisco, ca.  and at Groove Yard Records at 5555 claremont avenue in oakland, ca.

CARAVAN reviewed in www.beyondchron.org

Lisa Engelken’s “Caravan”
by E. “Doc” Smith

“There have been some fabulous jazz musicians to come from DC over the last decade or so; pianist Geri Allen, bassist Ed Howard, guitarist Paul Bollenback, saxophonist Ron Holloway, to name just a few. They have become some of the most respected and sought after names in jazz. Add singer, composer and producer Lisa Engelken to that pantheon of great artists. “Caravan” will stand the test of time and is a harbinger of more great music to come.”

BOOKING & INFORMATION:  info@lisaengelken.com