And All That Stalking
CURRENT:
Producer: "Que Sera! Celebrating Doris Day"
with Kristi King
Recent
Jazz Employment:
alent Management/Booking/Publicist for
various jazz singers, 1998-2010
Record Producer, Saying It With Jazz
Executive producer:
“You Don’t Know Me” by Rebecca Parris (2007)
“Well, Alright!” by Nancy Kelly (2009).
Produced 14 shows for NPR’s Jazz Profiles (hosted by Nancy Wilson): Carmen McRae, Anita O’Day, Ray Brown, Ernestine Anderson, Freddy Cole, Etta Jones, Al Hibbler, Johnny Hartman, Norman Simmons, Sarah Vaughan, Rosemary Clooney, Jazz in Song: The Words, Singing Instrumentalists, and The Standards. The Words was one of five sample programs presented to the Peabody Committee, which selected Jazz Profiles for an award in 2001.
Produced four shows for
PRI’s Smithsonian Productions
Jazz Singers:
What Is Jazz
Singing, You Are What You Sing (Material), Straight out of the
Church, and Ballads.
Produced video documentary
Saying It With Jazz,
featuring Carmen McRae, Etta Jones, Lorez Alexandria, Carol
Sloane, Madeline Eastman, and Rebecca Parris. Favorable reviews
in Down Beat, JazzTimes, and Jazz Now.www.sayingitwithjazz.com
MLA, Stanford
University, 2000, thesis topic: “Jazz or Ersatz: the Criteria of
Authentic Jazz Singing.”
How About Me?
Ernie Andrews (High Note 2005)
To Etta With Love, Houston Person (High Note 2004)
Sentimental Journey, Houston Person (High Note 2003)
Let It Happen, Janis Mann, Pancake Records (2003)
Website Production:
www.carmenmcrae.com tribute website
www.ernestineanderson.com
www.sayingitwithjazz.com
www.deniseperrier.com
www.kristiking.com
www.joanmerrill.com
CEO: Saying It With Jazz
www.sayingitwithjazz.com
Contact Joan at joan@sayingitwithjazz.com or merrilljoan@earthlink.net
