Published: March 5, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
Address: 619 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022 United States
NYC’s unique jazz prayer service, Sundays at 5, has been offered since 1965. All are welcome. Free to attend! This week, we welcome Judy Niemack (voice), Alan Broadbent (piano), and Boris Kozlov (bass).
Judy Niemack is a multifaceted vocal jazz artist whose career spans five decades. A well-known jazz singer and entertainer who has performed extensively around the world, she was born in Pasadena, California. Upon moving to New York City in the late ’70s, she launched her jazz career at the Village Vanguard and has been performing ever since. Judy has sung in clubs and festivals around the world with her trio and with big bands, including the WDR in Köln and the Danish Radio Big Band, with whom she recently released an acclaimed CD, “New York Stories”. Throughout her career, she’s performed with such jazz legends as Toots Thielemans, Clark Terry, and George Benson and has released 15 albums as a leader, the most recent, “What’s Love?”, on Sunnyside Records. In 1995,, she became Germany’s first Professor of Vocal Jazz in Berlin, a position she held for 25 years. Her “Hear it and Sing it!” vocal books are best sellers, and she continues to teach and perform worldwide.
Alan Broadbent was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and in 1966, at the age of 19, received a Downbeat Magazine scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1969, he was asked to join Woody Herman’s band as his pianist and arranger for 3 years. In 1972, he settled in Los Angeles, beginning a musical relationship with the legendary singer Irene Kral (no relation to Diana Krall). Soon, he was also invited into the studio scene as a pianist for the great Nelson Riddle, David Rose, and Johnny Mandel. In the early 90s, he was asked to be a part of Natalie Cole’s famous “Unforgettable” CD, at which time he toured as her pianist and, a little while later, as her conductor. At this time, he wrote an orchestral arrangement for her second video with her dad, “When I Fall In Love”, which won him his first Grammy Award for “best orchestral arrangement accompanying a vocal”.
Shortly after, he became a member of Charlie Haden’s Quartet West, touring the festivals of Europe, the UK, and the USA. It was while with this group that he won his second Grammy, an orchestral accompaniment written for Shirley Horn of Leonard Bernstein’s “Lonely Town”.
As a soloist and with his jazz trio, Broadbent has been nominated for Grammys twice for best instrumental performance, in the company of such artists as Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, and Keith Jarrett. In 2007, he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit, an honor he holds in high regard.
Broadbent is Diana Krall’s conductor for her occasional orchestra concerts and is the conductor on her “Live in Paris” DVD. Recently, he has been the arranger on Glenn Frey’s CD with strings, “After Hours”, and wrote six string arrangements for Sir Paul McCartney’s “Kisses On The Bottom” with the London Symphony. He has just returned from solo piano concerts in the UK, Poland, and France.
It has been his lifelong goal, through his orchestral arrangements and jazz improvisations, to discover, in popular music and standard songs, deeper feelings of communication and love.
Two-time Grammy Award winning acoustic and electric bassist, composer, and arranger Boris Kozlov has been on the New York and international jazz scene for the past 20 years. Currently serving as a Bassist, Arranger and Musical Director for Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto’s New World Spirit, Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex Sipiagin, Jean-Michel Pilc and many others.
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm EST
Free!
Detailed information and discussion of the event.