Onesheet
for LaVon's CD Choices: PDF
LaVon Hardison Bio: PDF
LaVon Hardison Jazz Combo onesheet: HTML | PDF
LaVon's Theater/Acting Site
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- Red & Ruby visited the KLCC show Saturday Cafe on July 7, 2007
to play and chat. Listen [mp3]
- An interview with LaVon was featured on the KAOS jazz show John's Place on Dec. 8, 2006.
Listen [mp3]
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What They're Saying...
"...LaVon
Hardison has a startlingly clear, sweet voice, resembling not
just a little Ella Fitzgerald’s. She’s right in Ella’s
bag on much of Choices, but she’s got the versatility to
try a few other directions as well, making this a consistently
stimulating
CD. ... Through it all her pure tone and crisp but
warm diction never wavers and it all sounds easy.
... Choices is a great record!"
-Tom Peterson, Victory Review,
3/2007 (view)
"When
Ms Hardison put her lovely head back and sang, the night came
alive. This stylistic jazz vocalist embellished the quartet
with her nectarous and energetic voice -- the closest thing to
perfect
pitch since Jo Stafford. The lady swings. She reminds us a
little of Carmen McCrae...."
-Jimmy Squire, The Sitting Duck, 4/6/06
(view article - 1.1mb
PDF)
"saucy..."
-New York Times
"LaVon’s
singing gives us the rare joy of hearing an agile voice in the service of an
agile mind … and all of it blessed by a rompin’ good sense of humor.
Pure fun, every time!"
-Juli Kelen
K.A.O.S. fm
"When
LaVon performs a song,
you can be assured that not only
will it sung beautifully, with the playfulness and the poignancy the song deserves, … each
song becomes a distinct and memorable experience for the listener."
-Dick Meyer
Traditions Café and World Folk Art
"...the
hot, syncopated songs
of the swing era."
-Saturday Cafe, KLCC-fm
"LaVon
is one of those rare performers that can cause people to laugh
out loud as she performs. Her renditions of melodies are exquisite
and her vocal improvisations suggest deep understandings of musical
rhythms and jazz sensibilities. Hot Club Sandwich is incredibly
lucky to work with a vocalist of such caliber—she knows
how to bring out the best in everyone’s performance."
-James Schneider
Hot Club Sandwich |
