Eleven Clinton Restaurant. Newark's new home for Smothered Blues, presents Carrie Jackson on Fri. Dec. 1, 7:30 pm-11:30 pm. Eleven Clinton's menu leans toward a southern palette, and draws it's ambiance from cool colors mood lighting and soft sounds of straight ahead jazz piping. A full bar offering of beer, wine and signature cocktails, a jazz experience with a lounge vibe.
Carrie Jackson is a NY / NJ metropolitan based vocalist and rekindles thoughts of America's great jazz history. Carrie has performed at Top Jazz Venues in the area also touring in the USA and abroad. Carrie attributes her vocal style of singing to her mentors, the Great Ladies of Jazz, Sarah "Sassy" Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Carmen Mc Rae. She has taken all of her mentors and made them a part of her bringing new horizons to this classical art form called Jazz. She is a vocalist and performer who spreads, shares her joy and well-honed expertise on the stage. Ms. Jackson with her multifaceted singing style she can harmonize swing, scat, swings classic jazz standards with sweet soul, wail the blues, ballads, or Gospel, all complimented by her engaging stage presence and graceful moves. playing the tenor." Ms. Jackson, a native Newarker, honed her many talents in the New Jersey / York metropolitan areas performing as an actress/ dancer, for musical theater to include 'AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' and NUNSENSE, When she shines, you smile! Carrie's Website: WWW.CJAYRECORDS.COM.
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