Ann Hampton Callaway October 29, 2006

Ann Hampton Callaway is a one-of-a-kind performer who uses her three-octave voice to dazzle music lovers with her jazz and pop music. Her music is inspired by the great ladies of song such as Ella Fitzgerald and Shirley Horn, as well as by contemporary singers and songwriters such as Carole King. Benny Green has performed with numerous jazz groups and was selected as the first recipient of the City of Toronto's Glen Gould International Protege Prize. An exciting and hard-swinging pianist in the Bud Powell mold, Benny Green ranks alongside Mulgrew Miller and Donald Brown as one of a number of talented hard-bop keyboard stars to have graduated from Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers training ground. During America's hard-bop revival of the !80s, Green established his own distinctive voice as the leader of a number of bands.