PAM PURVIS: Winter Warm

Pam Purvis

Winter Warm

© 2007 Progressive Winds Music (634479635052)

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Get cozy and warm with this wonderful holiday collection of songs. It's romantic and swinging with great musicians and includes the best of those favorite holiday songs.

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Pam Purvis

Pam is from Louisiana and Texas. She began singing jazz in 1974 in Paterson, NJ at Gulliver’s (now just a fond memory for those who were there). It was a good place to begin because she met and sang with Chuck Wayne, Joe Puma, Gabor Zabo, Joe Morello, Jack Six, and Bob Ackerman. The later of these fine musicians she decided to keep. They have been married and working together for 25 years, and have 8 recordings together to this date.
During the last several years they have performed in Europe at the Stockholm Jazz Festival, San Remo Jazz Festival, Asti Jazz Festival as well as Mexico and all over the US. She sings currently with Joe Cohn, Richard Wyands, Dennis Irwin, Earl May, Chip Jackson, Steve Johns, and many other great musicians.
She credits her style to “living with a horn player”. She likes to tell a story about meeting and hanging out with the great scat singer Joe Carroll. When she asked him how he learned to sing those improvised type lines he told her “Listen to the horn players, baby, listen to the horn players”.
Her sense of lyrics she credits to the training she received at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. “My approach to lyrics and phrasing is ‘ of the moment’. When I sing a song it is always for the first time, and therefore I hope it will always be fresh and always emotional”.
“I want you to see and feel the images in the song. I come from a part of the country that is full of color and energy. I hope you’ll find these things in my singing.”
In the last 3 years she has begun teaching privately and in colleges. Recently teaching at Union County College Summer Program a course in Solo Singing for ages 11 through 15, and a jazz vocal workshop at Tennessee State University, and Stockton College in NJ.
She has just been made the music director for Generations of Jazz, an educational outreach program of the New Jersey Jazz Society, presenting a 1 hour history of jazz to school children of all ages.

The first thing you notice when you hear Pam Purvis is the ease with which she sings. Every single note she delivers is beautiful.
Rosalind L. Picou - Jazz Now

… asserts herself as a new revelation of the discipline of song.
Phillippe Bourdin - Jazz Hot Magazine

Purvis moves in and out of scat singing with ease - she has a good range and is never anything but musical. - Richard B. Kamins – Cadence

Watching and listening to Pam is a treat because of both her considerable stage presence and her voice, which moves effortlessly through and around melodies in a manner that reveals a strong singer. Underlying all her numbers is an obvious energy that constantly seduces the listener.
John O. Gunter - Dallas Morning News

"Pam's caressing of a lyric is as soothing and romantic as a glass of fine wine on a moonlit night...simply beautiful."
...Jazz vocalist Grady Tate



DISCOGRAPHY
Tanya’s Waltz - daagnim js
Day Dream - daagnim - js 07
Heart Song - Blackhawk 5120
If I Think of Something You’ll Let Me Know –
Progressive Winds 1001
Les Oiseaux De Proie (Birds of Prey) - 4-Tay 4007 Contact Info:
Imagination – Mrecords pampurv@verizon.net
Fools Rush In - MRecords 003 www.pampurvis.com
Who Decides - MRecords
Winter Warm - Mrecords
Soft - PWR 00106




Contact Info:
www.pampurvis.com
pampurv@comcast.net

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