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Tribute to Marchel Ivery

While marketing and promotion of the CD is taking more time than I imagined, them's the breaks when you're an Independent artist. Still I make time to write for the next CD that I want to be 98% original material. Also, I'm planning on working more on the road this year especially festivals and concerts.

Keep checking here for new events and show locations, and if you can, come out and see the performances. If you would like to book me for an event at your venue, go to the contact page and send me an email. I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

About Me

• Jazz Vocalist Carla Norris grew up banging out blues riffs on the piano when she could hardly walk. Her mother's love of all musical genres was her early childhood education......
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• "On Behalf of the Sammons Center for the Arts and the Sammons Jazz program, please accept our thanks for appearing on our jazz concert series. We were thrilled to have you on our series and your performance was exceptional. Please extend our thanks to your band members and express our admiration for their superb musicianship and exciting performance. You have helped us achieve our goals in presenting the Sammons Jazz Series: To present to our patrons the most talented local and national jazz artists in a comfortable listening environment. Again, it was a pleasure to have you as part of the series and we look forward to working with you again in the future."

  James Gilyard, Artistic Director

Hello, I Remember

• Check out the new CD from Carla, "Hello, I Remember", featuring exciting scat-filled, bebopish Jazz standards and improvisations inspired by an ensemble of master musicians.
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