Whitney Marchelle is an international performing, recording & educational songwriting artist with a four octave range. Her style encompasses many aspects of American music form contemporary, straight-ahead jazz/traditional, bebop, funk, R&B & folk. Whitney also plays piano and guitar along with songwriting arrangements. Ms. Marchelle has performed in many venues throughout the New York area including the Apollo, United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Blue Note Jazz Club, The Mist, Jazz Foundation Events, Minton's Harlem, Zinc Bar, Abyssinian Jazz Vespers ,Cotton Club,Café Du Soliel, & and many more. Internationally she has performed at Dusit Dubai Hotel, Singapore Harry's Bar, Berklee Conservatory in Kobe Japan among others.
The many artists Whitney has performed with include Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wycliffe Gordon, Frank Lacy, Tia Fuller Danny Mixon, Clark Terry, Patience Higgins,Dezron Douglas, and more. Also several performed at severl Presidential affairs (big band, group, guitar/vocal, piano/vocal). Opened for: Kiss, Bill Withers and others.
Whitney's recording credits are vast and consist of Spike Lee State Farm Insurance commercial Jeremy Pelt, Wycliffe Gordon, Clark Terry, Patience Higgins, Quincy Jones, Jonathan Batiste, Steve Turre, Spirits UP Above album, Mr. Gadget, Camile Thurman, Russell Hall, Carmen Intorre, Terreon Gully, Kofie Burbridge, among others. She has also opened for Fathead Newman, Bill Withers and KISS. Other live performances with Herbie Hancock, Mustafa Big Band, Eastman Educators Big Band, Drake University Big Band, Helen Sung, Curtis Lundy,Bertha Hope, Kim Thompson, Wayne Newton Orchestra, Curtis Lundy, Clark Terry Rhythm section, Witches Brew, Jackson Sisters, Sabu Adeyola, Chester Whitmore, Swiss Chriss and many more.
Whitney has received several song writing awards along with articles appearing in Jazz Times, Alize lavie Magazine, JAZZIZ, LIVE Magazine in Dubai, and other publications. Ms. Marchelle has also appeared at many festivals including Atlanta Jazz festival, Art Deco Festival ,Seaport festival, Lady’s Got Chops Festival,Jazz In July Festival,St Peters Abbey Linolnc tribute,UWS Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival, African Festival, Sentosa Island Balloon Festival,Eddie Durham Blues & Jazz Festival, Lighting of the Torch Festival in Singapore, Mississippi Blues Festival and the list goes on.
Her listening & educational cd entitled Dig Dis has just been completed and will be the first of August 2015 with all her arrangements and a composer of 8 of the 14 selections.
QUOTES:
"Good Job! Bravo" Herbie Hanock on Giant Steps (quoted on International jazz day 2014)
”Ms Marchelle shows her many facets extremely well: a singer of pop tunes; a swinger of immense energy; a fearless scat artist, able to handle overdubbing flawlessly; and she even plays piano on a couple of tracks!!!!" Jazz Times Harvey Sider
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“'What Jazz Is'... excellent... a jazz anthem” —Dubai Live Magazine
“...especially love 'In Walked Bud,' 'Pannonica' and Marsalis' 'Loose Duck'” —XM Radio, Maxx Merric Maxx House
“Neo-soul with straight-ahead. Great!” —David Sears, NARAS
"Whitney Marchelle and Wycliffe Gordon a must see" City News Paper
“I stood up for Whitney Marchelle when she sang Strang Fruit at the Abbey Lincoln Tribute and loved her rendintion of Pannonica which is credited in the discography in my book, Nicas Dream”, David Kastins.
http://new.livestream.com/yehoodi/frankie100/videos/52003646 http/www.tnj.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/two- memorials-donald-byrd-each-scintillating
