MUSIC

In conjunction with the Portraits from the Golden Age of Jazz exhibit, the North Shore Jazz Project presents Amanda Carr with the Everett Longstreth Octet. Boston based daughter of a big band vocalist and trumpeter (Nick Capezuto, most known for Herb Pomeroy Band), Ms. Carr is a multi-styled vocalist/pianist that began early on in her teens in the rock and pop genre, but has in recent years focused on fresh interpretations of the Great American Songbook. With distribution and airplay in over a dozen countries, she continues to perform with her own group while a popular guest vocalist with many other ensembles. Ms. Carr is the CEO of the newly formed not for profit organization American Big Band Preservation Society, Inc. which has a mission of preserving and promoting Big Band music through performance and education and acquiring a library of unpublished Big Band arrangements to share with the public.