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Karrin Allyson (pronounced KAH-rin; born Karrin Allyson Schoonover on July 27, 1963 in Great Bend
Great Bend, Kansas

Great Bend is a city situated along the Arkansas River in the southwestern part of Barton County, Kansas, located in central Kansas, in the Central United States United States....
, Kansas
Kansas

The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland"....
) is a three-time Grammy-nominated jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 singer. She has been described by the New York Times as a "singer with a feline touch and impeccable intonation."

Career
Allyson, who grew up in Omaha
Omaha

Omaha may refer to:*Omaha , a Native American tribe that currently resides in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Nebraska, and the direct or indirect source of all other things named "Omaha"...
 and San Francisco, was early on a singer, pianist, and songwriter. She graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is the Omaha, Nebraska campus of the University of Nebraska system, and is the third-largest institution of higher education in Nebraska, after the University of Nebraska?Lincoln and Metropolitan Community College....
 with a degree in classical piano in 1987, and soon moved to Minneapolis to begin her jazz career.






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Karrin Allyson (pronounced KAH-rin; born Karrin Allyson Schoonover on July 27, 1963 in Great Bend
Great Bend, Kansas

Great Bend is a city situated along the Arkansas River in the southwestern part of Barton County, Kansas, located in central Kansas, in the Central United States United States....
, Kansas
Kansas

The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland"....
) is a three-time Grammy-nominated jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 singer. She has been described by the New York Times as a "singer with a feline touch and impeccable intonation."

Career


Allyson, who grew up in Omaha
Omaha

Omaha may refer to:*Omaha , a Native American tribe that currently resides in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Nebraska, and the direct or indirect source of all other things named "Omaha"...
 and San Francisco, was early on a singer, pianist, and songwriter. She graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is the Omaha, Nebraska campus of the University of Nebraska system, and is the third-largest institution of higher education in Nebraska, after the University of Nebraska?Lincoln and Metropolitan Community College....
 with a degree in classical piano in 1987, and soon moved to Minneapolis to begin her jazz career. In 1990 she moved to Kansas City
Kansas City

Kansas City may refer to:* Kansas City Metropolitan Area, metropolitan area surrounding Kansas City, Missouri includes territory in both Missouri and Kansas....
, where her career took off and she recorded her first CD.

Her well-received 1992 debut CD was followed by ten others for Concord Records
Concord Records

Concord Records is a United States record label now based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 in music as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local automobile dealer and jazz fan who sold his Lincoln Mercury dealers...
, many times featuring songs in other languages — French, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish — and ranging in repertoire from Brazilian, blues, bebop, scat, and jazz ballad, to pop standards, soft-rock, and folk rock. In 1998, Allyson moved to New York City
New York City

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 with her longtime partner, radio host Bill McGlaughlin
Bill McGlaughlin

William "Bill" McGlaughlin is an American composer, Conductor , music educator, and Peabody Award-winning classical music Radio personality. He is the host and music director of the public radio programs Exploring Music and Saint Paul Sunday....
, whom she met in Kansas City in the early 1990s. Her albums Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (2001), Footprints (2006), and Imagina: Songs of Brasil (2008) all three received Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Vocal Album
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album has been presented since 1977. Until 2001 this award was titled the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance....
. Allyson continues to tour extensively, performing live with her band around the country and around the world.

Discography


  • 1992
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1996
  • 1996
  • 1999
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • 2006
  • 2008


Footnotes


External links

  • at AllMusic.com
  • at MusicianGuide.com
  • in UNO Alumni Association Magazine (Spring 2001), pp. 8-11
  • at Last.FM
  • at Google Music