Boston-based
vocalist/lyricist Shelley Neill released her third CD The Blues Runs Through
It on Cobalt Blue Music in November 2001. The recording features violinist
John Blake, Jr., pianist Laszlo Gardony, drummer Yoron Israel and bassist
John Lockwood. Her other CDs include Music Sweet Music with Laszlo Gardony
on piano, Genevieve Rose on acoustic bass, and Gregory Caputo on drums,
released in 1999, and Diaphanous Apertures released in 1996.
Her Boston and New England jazz venues and concert performances include: First Night Boston 2000 and 2001, the Regattabar, the Vox Humana Concerts, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Ryles, Bob the Chef's, Les Zygomates, Il Panino, Club Cafe, the Tam, the Blue Note Exchange, the Willow, Café Italia, the Coolidge Corner Theatre's Jazz in June Concert Series, Luthier's Workshop, Waltham, MA, Bullfinch's, Sudbury, MA, Michael Timothy's, Nashua, NH, Café Beaujolais, Glouchester, MA, and the Press Room, in Portsmouth, N.H. In August 1998 she opened for the late Stanley Turrentine, at the Boston Jazz Society's 25th Anniversary Summer Jazz Festival.
Shelley's got that original blues singer's sound...her voice hearkens back to Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey and Ethel Waters... Dave Brubeck
Her warm and intimate rendition of "Solitude" would make Ellington turn his head to listen... JazzNews
...here is a torch singer who can swing. Every song is delivered with intensity, working each note for all it's worth. Using her deep, husky voice, vibrato and phrasing very effectively… Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
Her Boston and New England jazz venues and concert performances include: First Night Boston 2000 and 2001, the Regattabar, the Vox Humana Concerts, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Ryles, Bob the Chef's, Les Zygomates, Il Panino, Club Cafe, the Tam, the Blue Note Exchange, the Willow, Café Italia, the Coolidge Corner Theatre's Jazz in June Concert Series, Luthier's Workshop, Waltham, MA, Bullfinch's, Sudbury, MA, Michael Timothy's, Nashua, NH, Café Beaujolais, Glouchester, MA, and the Press Room, in Portsmouth, N.H. In August 1998 she opened for the late Stanley Turrentine, at the Boston Jazz Society's 25th Anniversary Summer Jazz Festival.
Shelley's got that original blues singer's sound...her voice hearkens back to Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey and Ethel Waters... Dave Brubeck
Her warm and intimate rendition of "Solitude" would make Ellington turn his head to listen... JazzNews
...here is a torch singer who can swing. Every song is delivered with intensity, working each note for all it's worth. Using her deep, husky voice, vibrato and phrasing very effectively… Dave Nathan, All Music Guide