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Judy Carmichael piano
JAZZ PIANIST
“Judy Carmichael is a great entertainer. Her playing is masterly and her linking material show
her to be a raconteur in the Ustinov mold.”
Jonathan James Moore BBC Radio
Grammy nominated pianist Judy Carmichael is one of the world’s leading interpreters
of stride piano and swing. Count Basie nicknamed her “Stride”, acknowledging the
command with which she plays this technically and physically demanding jazz piano
style. Judy’s newly released CD “Come and Get It” features her singing debut on
everything from Peggy Lee inspired standards, to humorous takes on Fats Waller tunes.
A native of California, Judy Carmichael moved to New York in the early 80’s and
has maintained a busy concert schedule throughout the world ever since. She has
toured for the United States Information Agency throughout India, Portugal, Brazil and
Singapore. In 1992 Ms. Carmichael was the first jazz musician sponsored by the United
States Government to tour China .
The musician that critics have referred to as “astounding, flawless and captivating”
(The New York Times) has played in a variety of venues from Carnegie Hall, to
the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice (the first concert ever presented by the
museum) to programs with Joel Grey, Michael Feinstein, Steve Ross and the Smothers
Brothers and countless festivals internationally. In addition, Ms. Carmichael has
done comic skits and performed her music on radio and TV (Jo Soares in Brazil,
Entertainment Tonight in the U.S. and others) and performed recitals for everyone from
Rod Stewart and Robert Redford to President Clinton and Gianni Agnelli.
Ms. Carmichael has appeared frequently on, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home
Companion, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition,
Entertainment Tonight, CBS’ Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt and with Charles
Osgood, Mornings With Margaret Throsby for the Australia Broadcast Corporation
and the BBC’s Loose Ends and Woman’s Hour . Her live concert recording for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation was released in 2008 as the CD Southern Swing.
Ms. Carmichael hosts and produces her own Public Radio Show Judy Carmichael’s
Jazz Inspired, broadcast on over 170 stations throughout North American and abroad
and on NPR’s Sirius Satellite channel and XM Radio. Ms. Carmichael also produced
and hosted the 15-part series Pet Style Radio with Judy Carmichael.
Judy Carmichael is one of a handful of musicians who approach jazz from a perspective
of its entire history. Choosing to study jazz piano from its early roots on, she
explores the music deeply, infusing it with a “fresh, dynamic interpretation of her own”
(Washington Post ). The National Endowment for the Arts rewarded Carmichael’s
knowledge of jazz piano with a major grant to present early jazz greats on film and to
discuss the history and development of jazz piano with college students across the
country.
Judy Carmichael’s Grammy-nominated recording Two Handed Stride teamed her with
four giants of jazz, bassist Red Callender, drummer Harold Jones, guitarist Freddie
Green and saxophonist Marshall Royal. She has written two books on stride piano and
numerous articles on the subject of jazz. She has served on a variety of music panels
at the National Endowment for the Arts, spoken before the National Council on the Arts
advocating for individual fellowship grants, and is one of the few jazz pianists honored
as a Steinway Artist. She has been included in a number of jazz anthologies and at one
point, to her utter surprise, turned up in the Simon and Schuster murder mystery Murder
Times Two as “the stride pianist Judy Carmichael,” the main suspect’s favorite piano
player.
Ms. Carmichael is included in “Who’s Who in the East”, “Who’s Who in Finance
and Industry in America”, “Who’s Who in American Woman”, “American Women in
Jazz”, “Who’s Who in the World” as well as the “Encyclopedia of Jazz”.
Her recordings and music books are available at www.judycarmichael.com, iTunes or
by mail order through C&D Productions, P.O. Box 360 Sag Harbor, New York, 11963,
info@judycarmichael.com. Judy Carmichael’s Jazz Inspired can be downloaded free
from iTunes or streamed from www.jazzinspired.com.