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Saxophonist and singer Grace Kelly and her band perform her composition “By the Grave” from her 2016 album “Trying to Figure It Out” during her concert on January 16, 2025 – part of the 2024-25 Season and broadcast on Fridays Live.

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About this concert:
Called “the future of jazz” by NPR, 25-year-old saxophonist and vocalist Grace Kelly is a seven-time winner of the Downbeat Critics Poll and has risen to be a major jazz star, appearing with Jon Batiste and Stay Human on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and on concert stages around the world. A soulful soloist with a warm, burnished tone and a preternatural gift for composition and arrangement, Kelly began her musical journey while still a youth, writing her first song at seven and releasing her 2005 debut album, “Dreaming,” at 12.

Innumerable accolades and collaborations followed that auspicious start, as the young saxophonist appeared with the Boston Pops at age 14 and performed by Wynton Marsalis’ request at the inauguration festivities for President Obama, sharing in the stage with jazz icon Dave Brubeck. She’s led nine full-length albums including “GRACEfulLEE” in collaboration with NEA Jazz Master Lee Konitz and “Man With the Hat” with fellow NEA honoree Phil Woods, and participated in the Kennedy Center's 15th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival as part of an all-star band including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Esperanza Spalding, Geri Allen, and Terri Lyne Carrington.

Her 2016, “Trying to Figure It Out,” was voted the #2 Jazz Album of the Year in DownBeat’s Readers Poll, and she won “Song of the Year” for her single “Feels Like Home” in the 2018 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Her latest album, “At the Movies: Grace Kelly with Strings” is a large ensemble recording inspired by the 1950 classic “Charlie Parker with Strings” and devoted to music from her favorite movies.

PERSONNEL:
Grace Kelly: alto saxophone, vocals
Adam Bravo: keyboards
Cooper Appelt: bass
Anthony Fung: drums

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