Marietta Jazz and Jokes featuring Gabriela Anders

Fountaine Lewis Presents Jazz & Jokes featuring Gabriela Anders Gabriela Anders’ first solo record “Wanting”, Warner Bros Jazz elicited much praise for Anders’ musical vision and impassioned vocal style. It featured arrangements and production by George Duke, Allain Mallet, Paul Brown and Anders herself. Gabriela wrote ten of the album’s twelve tracks. Anders toured the US, Europe and Asia in support of the release. While on Warner, she also recorded with Al Jarreau, Bob James and Michael Franks. She twice performed at the Montreaux Jazz Festival with George Duke’s band. Her second record for Warner, “Gabriela”, featured an array of world-class sidemen, including Christian McBride, Amir “Questlove” Thompson and Kirk Whalum. Again, she contributed ten of the album’s twelve tracks. Gabriela was subsequently signed as an artist with Narada/EMI and JVC Japan. The resulting records, “Last Tango In Rio” and “Bossa Beleza”, featured her own music as well as her arrangements of Brazilian standards – an idiom close to her musical heart since her early days as a student in Buenos Aires – and her contemporary versions of the classic Billy Holiday repertoire. Gabriela Anders is the director, arranger and vocalist for her new ensemble, “Los Dukes”: a 7-piece band featuring some of the best Latin jazz players in NYC. “Los Dukes” play the music of Duke Ellington in a wide range of iconic Latin American styles – baion, merengue, cha-cha, bolero, reggae, mambo and more. One of very few jazz vocalist/arrangers on the scene, Gabriela puts her stamp of unique creativity on this unexpected format with incendiary results. Los Dukes is Gabriela Anders (vocals), Bobby Sanabria (drums), Helio Alves (piano), John Walsh (trumpet), Edward Perez (bass), Chris Washburne (trombone), and Oreste Abrantes (percussion).