Special Events

Joyce Cooling
Friday October 8th
Ticket Price: $27 $10 min
Joyce Cooling’s show at Trumpets on Oct 8. The performance is a part of her Music for the Mind Concert Series and is a fundraiser for the local Montclair, NJ chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). A portion of Joyce’s proceeds from the event will go directly to NAMI.
www.JoyceCooling.com
Joyce Cooling, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, is best known for her eclectic style and colorful body-moving sound. Funky, soulful, and always original, Joyce Cooling is recognized as one of the most dynamic and popular contemporary jazz guitarists in the world.
Joyce has recorded seven albums - five of which charted on Billboard. She has to her credit two #1 radio singles, six top 10 and 13 charting singles in all, and has garnered multiple music awards including the Gibson Best Jazz Guitarist of the Year and Best New Talent in the Jazziz Reader’s Poll. She was a nominee for the California Music Awards, the Oasis Awards and the Gavin Contemporary Jazz Artist of the Year.
Cooling has performed with such jazz giants as Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, and Charlie Byrd. Her top-10 single, “Mm Mm Good,” featuring Al Jarreau; and Christmas holiday tracks, “The Christmas Song,” with Lee Ritenour, and her original single, “It’s Feeling Like Christmas,” have pushed Cooling to new heights of popularity while showcasing her musical versatility. Joyce Cooling is a national attraction at major U.S. jazz festivals and has expanded her reach with concerts in Asia, Mexico, and South America.
Global Cooling, released in April 2009, is their seventh studio CD and is receiving worldwide critical acclaim and raving reviews. Global Cooling was #2 on Amazon and hit #1 on the smoothjazz Indie charts and stayed there for over three months. The CD also remained in the top 10 on the TOP 50 Radio Charts for weeks, and the single, “Dolores in Pink,” won the #2 spot on Canada’s 2009 Café Jazz Review. Global Cooling was also chosen as the 2009 Album of the Year in the U.K. by PhoenixFM.

Cooling, who is now based in San Francisco, was raised in the New York area in a house that was that was “filled with music.” Musical influences include everyone from Joe Henderson, Abbey Lincoln, Wes Montgomery and Miles, to James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix, to Ravel, Stravinsky, Bach and Brahms, to Hermeto Pascoal, Elis Regina, João Bosco and Jobim. Cooling proclaims, “I just like good music. There are no boundaries with me.”
“My teenage years were spent outside of the Village Vanguard and other Manhattan jazz clubs. I was underage, but the bartender at the Vanguard saw how much I loved the music and let me hang out on the steps. I heard everybody! It was fantastic and I was hooked.”
A self taught guitarist, Cooling learned to play by ear and has developed a personal style of finger picking, giving her playing a unique sound and feel. “I have always played that way. This wasn’t a conscious decision, it was just easier and more natural for me to first sing what I wanted to play and then play it. I was also never comfortable with a pick. I couldn’t feel what string I was on so I tossed the pick and played with my fingers.”
Joyce Cooling is a national advocate for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Joyce has performed at NAMI national and regional events all across the country. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of her CDs is donated to NAMI.

“Joyce Cooling at her best - warm and swinging.”
“...a dancing polyrhythmic sound that sambas, rocks and sways.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
“Musicianship: First-rate all the way.”
–Music Connection
“The Cooling - Wagner sounds are Latin-lively, body-moving stuff, with lots of mutual enthusiasm, audience to band. Since she is a very good guitarist, (Cooling’s) vocals and guitar lines provide an attractive one-two punch...”
–San Francisco Examiner
The West Coast guitarist has a large smooth jazz following, but her influences, which include blues, rock and Brazilian grooves, help set her performances apart.
–Washington Post
"On stage Cooling displays versatility and strength as a musician and seduces her audience with phenomenal stage presence and appeal...She was simply enthralling."
–Manila Bulletin, Philippines
"This woman's got chops!"
–R&R
"Cooling, Wagner and company have captured, conquered and converted - always a step ahead of their listeners, surprising and enchanting. This is contemporary jazz, the real thing, and the audience digs it in the quiet corners of their minds."
–Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine
"As a jazz guitarist, Joyce Cooling's Wes Montgomery leanings are a delight. Fused with Brazilian influences, it gets even better...she vibes with a lot of swing."
–Latin Beat
"(Their) music was challenging yet quite accessible, rhythmic yet never predictable. The combination of voices and instruments sounded unique...an impressive and highly individual jazz group."
–Music Connection
"Cooling is way cool"
–L.A. Jazz Scene
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