East Bay singer
Tory Teasley sings a range of genres: blues, funk, R&B, with a sonorous vocal sty, with a background in instrumental music, church choir, and as principal vocalist with Awon Ohun Omnira. Teasley recently released a debut album
Free, Tory, and will perform on February 18 as part of the Piedmont Piano concert series (www.piedmontpiano.com).
J.R. Price is out now with a duet featuring his childhood hero, out artist
Tom Goss. The two teamed up on Dance with Me, an impassioned love song about the incredible power dance has to bring a couple together before the world breaks them apart. This is the second single from Price s upcoming album,
Yoshi Kato February 11, 2021Updated: February 15, 2021, 8:20 am
Piedmont Piano Co. in Oakland hosts a twice-weekly concert program that launched in the midst of the pandemic. Photo: Piedmont Piano Co.
On the first Thursday of January, viewers from as far away as Brazil, Norway and the Netherlands streamed a live jazz concert from Uptown Oakland. Swedish vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gunhild Carling, a current South Bay resident, was leading her sextet on the Piedmont Piano Co. bandstand as audience members online commented in the chat box.
Toward the end of an energetic performance, Carling reminded the virtual audience, “If you like this music, don’t forget to tip the band. And we appreciate gifts, love letters … with lipstick traces,” she joked, referencing the jazz standard “These Foolish Things.”