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Linda Kosut - A Vocalist's Tribute to Oscar Brown Jr.
"I spent an enjoyable evening listening to the clear, open, melodic voice of singer Linda Kosut. It's musical, it's lyrical, with a natural vibrato, and on her ballads I wanted to dance a slow dance with a lithe and beautiful woman. She is a charming, relaxed, comfortable performer, on key vocally and emotionally. The ballads work, the jazz works, and so do the side trips into country and comedic. Her band, led by Max Perkoff, is a perfectly-timed ensemble that gently lifts each song. The show is entertaining from start to finish." -- New York writer Richmond Shepard, Performing Arts INSIDER
Linda Kosut is a moving and entertaining performer, best known for her unique interpretations of jazz standards and pop tunes and her evocative and compelling interpretive skill with lyrics.
Kosut comes to Pearl's to perform "Long as You're Living," her joyous and moving tribute to the great Oscar Brown, Jr. She's backed by an ebulliant ensemble featuring pianist/trombonist Max Perkoff, guitarist Randy Vincent, bassist Tom Shader and drummer David Rokeach.
What's especially exciting is that for this performance only, Kosut will be joined by Oscar Brown, Jr.'s daughter, Maggie Brown, who is flying out from Chicago expressly to sing several numbers with Linda at Pearl's. Maggie Brown is an accomplished singer nationally and, especially, in the Chicago area. Her acclaimed one-woman show, Legacy, is a musical demonstration/lecture about the history and evolution of African American music.
Linda Kosut has been performing to steady acclaim on the cabaret scenes of New York and the San Francisco Bay Area for several year. Her 2003 debut solo CD, Life is but a dream, was selected as one of the top female vocalist CDs of 2003 by Stu Hamstra, Cabaret Hotline Online in New York.
Kosut recently performed her cabaret show My Own Kind of Hat! to excellent reviews at The Gardenia in Los Angeles, The Encore in New York and San Francisco's Plush Room and Octavia Lounge. She has appeared in many other San Francisco Bay Area jazz & cabaret venues including the legendary nightclub The Purple Onion, the Zingari Lounge at The Donatello Hotel, Cosmopolitan Cafe, Cafe de la Presse, Club Jazz Nouveau and Cafe La Note in Berkeley.
Now Kosut presents "Long as You're Living," her tribute to the great Oscar Brown, Jr. Brown was an inspirational and influential composer and playwrite who died last year at the age of 78. Writer Richard Harrington, in his obituary of Brown for the Washington Post, said "Brown's astonishing 1960 debut, "Sin & Soul," and his 1964 live disc, "Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes to Washington," are monuments to socially conscious songwriting on a par with the best work of Curtis Mayfield and Gil Scott-Heron, who also wrote about the full panoply of black life -- joy, anger, love, frustration, humor -- and helped define Afrocentrism. Brown did it first in a way th
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LocationJazz at Pearl's
256 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
United States
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