Sunset Wednesdays: Tatiana Eva-Marie

Djangology

Swing 39
Nuages
Djangology
Lady be good
Dînette
Sheik of Araby
Troublant Bolero
Douce ambiance
Swing 42
Caravan

*program subject to change

BAND

Tatiana Eva-Marie, vocals
Gabe Terracciano, violin
Dennis Pol, guitar
Wallace Stelzer, bass

“One of the best young singers around” (Wall Street Journal), Tatiana Eva-Marie is a transatlantic bandleader, singer, author and actress based in Brooklyn. She plays French pop derived from the Django tradition with Balkan and folk influences.

Accruing over 70 million views on YouTube, Tatiana Eva-Marie was acclaimed “a millennial shaking up the jazz scene” by Vanity Fair. She performs regularly in New York at venues including Dizzy’s Club, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Birdland and Joe’s Pub. Across the United States, she’s appeared at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Freight and Salvage, Jazz Aspen Snowmass and Tucson Jazz Festival, in addition to international engagements.

Though her interests have led her to explore a wide range of musical styles, Tatiana Eva-Marie’s craft is always inspired by her own French and Balkan heritage, a love for the Parisian art scene era spanning the 1920s to the 60s, a passion for traditional Gypsy songs, a fascination for New Orleans music and a deep connection to the Great American Songbook.

Born into a family of musicians, painters and poets, Tatiana began her career at age four, immersed in the world of show business. Before her twenties, she had already recorded many albums, established herself as an actress on the Paris stage and written and directed two musicals, all while pursuing a Master’s Degree in medieval studies at the Sorbonne Université. Completely dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to artistic creation, she developed a fascination for the Renaissance Man archetype and began to travel the world collaborating with artists of various spheres. She soon chose New York as her home base, where she quickly built up a reputation as a singer, starting the Avalon Jazz Band, with whom she performed on some of the most important American stages, establishing herself as the international ambassador of “1930s Paris.”

In the past few years, incapable of abandoning herself to a pandemic-induced lethargy, Tatiana released four albums, starred as guest singer in various projects, wrote the libretto of an opera by Swiss composer Gérard Massini and started the online arts and culture publication Shrine Magazine. She was recently onscreen in the cinemas of France in Gérome Barry’s first feature film Swing Rendez-Vous, loosely based on her New York lifestyle—her first role as a leading lady!

Tatiana’s latest project, Djangology is the music composed by Parisian guitarist Django Reinhardt reinvented with the addition of her own original lyrics and arrangements.

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