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About Spider Saloff
Spider Saloff has received critical acclaim nationally and internationally. Saloff is not only a seasoned vocalist but also an actress, songwriter and playwright. Her newest original song, When You See Me is a crossover from her classic jazz roots. The new hip-hop/ jazz single was produced as a video and has received over 100,000 views on YouTube. See it Here
Other creative ventures include her one woman musical, “The Roar of the Butterfly” which played in try outs in Melbourne Australia and Los Angeles, made it’s debut in Chicago at the famed Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph. The show has been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.
Heard world wide as the co-star and co-creator of the internationally syndicated Public Radio series Words and Music , she performs in concert venues ranging from intimate jazz rooms to full symphony orchestras. Saloff is considered one of the great interpreters of American Songbook and has been endorsed by both the families of George and Ira Gershwin and Irving Berlin.
Recently, Saloff was featured with the prestigious Chicago Jazz Orchestra in a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald which played in Millennium Park to an audience of over 26,000. Her Gershwin tribute The Memory of All That (on which Saloff worked directly with the Gershwin family) headlined in St. Petersburg, Russia and most recently in London and continues to tour in major concert venues.
Ms. Saloff has played such renowned jazz and night club venues as New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center, Iridium, Joe’s Pub, Birdland, Fienstien’s ,Michael’s Pub, and The Algonquin, as well as San Francisco’s Jazz at Pearl’s, and Plush Room and Seattle’s Triple Door. And Chicago’s famed Jazz Showcase, The Green Mill, and Katerina’s Supper Club.
Other leading venues include symphony orchestras and concert spaces such as; Chicago’s Auditorium Theater, Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Wilmington Grand Opera, Wallingford Symphony, Castro Theater in San Francisco, and Town Hall and Dick Hyman’s Jazz in July in New York and Jazz on the Plazz Jazz series in Los Gatos, CA.
Spider Saloff has recorded and performed with such jazz luminaries as Les Paul, Tom Harrell, Nick Brignola, Ray Drummond, Harry Allen, Mark Murphy and Dick Hyman. She has worked frequently with Larry Novak, Tony Monte, Steve LaSpina, Ken Peplowski and Bill Charlap.
About Jeremy Kahn
Born near Chicago, Jeremy Kahn lived in New York City for twelve action-packed years lives near Chicago with him family in Oak Park, Illinois. Mainly a jazz pianist, having played in jazz-type venues around the world, Kahn also plays on recordings that motivate you to consume your favorite products, and I also play in pit orchestras for some of your favorite theatrical extravaganzas such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (w. Donny Osmond), Cats, Crazy For You, Fiddler On the Roof (w. Theodore Bikel), Cinderella (w. Eartha Kitt), Grease (w. Sheena Easton), Les Miserables, The King and I (w. Maureen McGovern), The Lion King, Spamalot (w. Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce), Elton John’s Aida, Wicked, Hot Mikado (Conductor), La Cage Aux Folles, Jersey Boys, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Suessical The Musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Finian’s Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Asst. Conductor, Paramount Theater, Aurora, IL), Pal Joey (Conductor), I Love Lucy Live On Stage (Asst. Conductor), Beauty and the Beast, and Pippin.
Kahn has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Joni Mitchell, Phil Woods, Teramasu Hino, Charlie Haden, Aretha Franklin, Barbara Cook, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and everyone in between. |