"Saloff remains one of the finest jazz vocalists working in this or any other city. Slyly sophisticated, easily accessible, Saloff stands as a kind of ideal", the Chicago Tribune stated emphatically. "A wicked way with a lyric and a glint of well [+]"Saloff remains one of the finest jazz vocalists working in this or any other city. Slyly sophisticated, easily accessible, Saloff stands as a kind of ideal", the Chicago Tribune stated emphatically. "A wicked way with a lyric and a glint of well-controlled mischief. A sparkle that lights up the performance", exclaimed The New York Times. Heard worldwide as the co-star and co-creator of the internationally syndicated Public Radio series Words and Music on PBS, Spider Saloff has received critical acclaim nationally and internationally. As one of the rare officially sanctioned acts of the Gershwin Centennial, her concert, Spider Saloff Sings Gershwin, has been touring the U.S. since 1996 and headlined the St. Petersburg Gershwin Festival in Russia (the birthplace of Gershwin's ancestors), including performances in the Gershwin family home. Ms. Saloff has played such renowned jazz and nightclub venues as New York's Firebird, Michael's Pub, The Russian Tea Room, The Algonquin, Café Carlyle, and Birdland, as well as San Francisco's Plush Room and Chicago's famed Gold Star Sardine Bar and Toulouse on the Park, the Fairmont Hotel, and The Plaza Tavern. Other leading venues include The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Wilmington Grand Opera, Wallingford Symphony, the Everett Symphony, and Town Hall and Dick Hyman's Jazz in July in New York. Spider Saloff has recorded and performed with such jazz luminaries as Tom Harrell, Nick Brignola, Ray Drummond, and Dick Hyman. She has worked frequently with Larry Novak, Tony Monte, Steve LaSpina, and John Colianni (Mel Torme's pianist for five years). A five-time winner of the prestigious MAC Award, including one for Best Female Jazz Vocalist, presented by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, she also received a special citation for her musical contributions from NARAS (presenter of the Grammy Awards). Spider Saloff has five CDs released nationally on Kopaesthetics Records: 1938, Sextet, The Memory of All That, and A New Set of Standards. Her latest release is a Christmas CD entitled Cool Yule. Television and radio credits include: The Bonnie Hunt Show (CBS), The Steve Baskerville Show (CBS), a one-hour feature on the Noteworthy Women series (Public Radio), and Studs Terkel (WFMT).
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