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Kat Edmonson at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest at Cafe Stritch
Courtesy of Massimo Chisessi | Posted on June 4, 2018
Where
Cafe Stritch
San Jose Jazz Summer Fest
374 South 1st St.
San Jose, CA
Map
(408) 280-6161
When
Sun, August 12, 2018
5:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
Kat Edmonson
vocalsMatt Ray
pianoAbout
Stylisically eclectic singer/songwriter Kat Edmonson has a compelling backstory for her latest album, Old Fashioned Gal. The creative jazz-rooted artist explains how the 11 originals on her fourth and most recent album make up the components of a proper movie musical that she first concocted while under the weather:
“I was sick in bed for days watching old films on Turner Classic Movies and, eventually, I got inspired and began to write,” she says. “I would watch one movie and then stop to work on a song and then turn on another movie…I wrote the majority of the album this way. At some point in this process, I started imagining scenes for a film that corresponded with my music and I envisioned my songs being sung by…certain characters.”...