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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
American jazz singer
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
16 June 1958(London, Greater London, London, England)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Dominique Frances Eade (June 16, 1958 in London, England) is an American jazz singer and composer. She lives near Boston and is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory.
Early life
She attended Vassar College and the Berklee College of Music before finishing her degree at New England Conservatory in Boston in 1984.
Eade was in a jazz band with Joe McPhee called Naima in the 1990s.
In 1989 she became the first jazz performer to be awarded the New England Conservatory's NEC Artist Diploma.
Reviews and awards
Her work has been praised by The Boston Phoenix, Newsday, and Peter Watrous and David Hajdu of the New York Times. Entertainment Weekly named her the "best jazz singer" in their article about up-and-coming artists for 1996.
Discography
Solo
- 1992 The Ruby and the Pearl (Accurate)
- 1994 My Resistance Is Low (Accurate)
- 1997 When the Wind Was Cool (RCA Victor)
- 1999 Long Way Home (RCA)
- 2006 Open (CD Baby/Jazz Project)
- 2011 Whirlpool (CD Baby)
- 2017 Town and Country, (Sunnyside Records) with Ran Blake
Collaboration
- 1995 – The Sky Has Melted Away (with The Creative Trans-Informational Alliance Presents (CTIA), André Vida and Brandon Evans)