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| EDEN BRENT . “In her huge playing and singing you can hear the ghosts of Mississippi in duet with the future of the blues.” Chip Eagle, Blues Revue. Eden was the International Blues Competition Solo winner for 2006 2006 International Blues Challenge Winner, Blues Foundation 2005 Mississippi Delta Blues Challenge Winner, Mississippi Delta Blues Society 2004 Artist Award, Greenville Arts Council 2004 Greenville Blues Walk Inductee, Greenville Blues Walk Association 1994 Folk Arts Apprenticeship, Mississippi Arts Commission “Brent’s forte is a combustible combination of boogie-woogie piano stylings and an effectively raspy vocal delivery.” -The Edmonton Journal, Alberta, Canada “This is one voice that should be around the Blues world for years to come.” BluesWax “Brent banged out the blues on a piano in the corner and got a standing ovation.” The Commercial Appeal “When Little Boogaloo talks, she sounds like a milk- cow walking on gravel, but when she sings, she sounds like an angel on Viagra.” Die Burger, Cape, South Africa “…a white girl who plays the blues. She’s amazing.” Cassandra Wilson, jazz vocalist |
| Biography of EDEN BRENT from http://www.southernartistry.org/biography.cfm?id=761 2006 International Blues Challenge winner, Eden Brent, is a masterful boogie-woogie pianist and vocal stylist. Whether booked as a solo artist or bandleader, her performance is fresh and spontaneous, often filled with audience requests and participation. She appears nationally and internationally at festivals, concerts and clubs, and organizes workshops and educational performances for virtually every age and proficiency level. She is currently coordinating a U. S. tour with the release of her new album, Mississippi Number One, available November 2007. The yearlong tour begins and ends in Mississippi. Portrayed by one critic as “Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin,” other critics have compared her to Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn and Norah Jones. Never mind the comparisons. This self-described “song interpreter” is a one-of-a-kind, and her interpretations of jazz, blues, soul and pop, in addition to her own songs, are expressive and memorable. A native of Greenville, Mississippi, Brent enjoyed a sixteen-year apprenticeship with duo partner, the late Abie “Boogaloo” Ames (1918 – 2002), who dubbed her “Little Boogaloo.” Although she achieved a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas, Brent credits Ames with teaching her to play piano. "Music school taught me to think, but Boogaloo taught me to boogie-woogie, " she acknowledges. Together with Ames, Brent starred in the 1999 television documentary, Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound. The award-winning feature, which aired nationally on PBS affiliates, explores the bond between mentor and protégé. Under Ames’s tutelage, Brent performed across Mississippi and for events around the country, including a Millennium Stage performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. in 2000. The pair’s final appearance was in the 2002 South African television production, Forty Days in the Delta, a blues documentary series taped in Mississippi shortly before Ames’s death. The program spurred Brent’s 2002 solo tour in South Africa, with a second solo tour and the release of her debut album, Something Cool, following a year later in 2003. Dedicated to Ames, Something Cool reached #2 on the South Africa Rock Digest chart, and Brent’s balladic tribute to that country, “South Africa,” reached #3 on the singles chart. About the song, Brent reflected, “I had spent so many years with Boogaloo, and I was a little lost without him. So, in the months after his death, traveling half way around the world by myself was liberating, and I wanted to express that joy to the people there.” Brent has secured her place in Mississippi Delta music, allowing her unique style to evolve while continuing Ames’s legacy. Receiving warm reviews from critics and fans alike, her new album, Mississippi Number One, includes her own Memphis-style "He'll Do the Same Thing To You," urban soul “Afraid to Let Go,” gospel endeavor “Until I Die” and the blues classic "Trouble in Mind." |
| FROM MY SPACE: Yellow Dog Records is thrilled to announce the signing of 2006 International Blues Challenge winner Eden Brent, a masterful blues and boogie pianist and vocal stylist. Dubbed ’Little Boogaloo’ by her mentor and duo partner, the late Boogaloo Ames (1918-2002), this Mississippi Delta native holds a bachelor’s degree in music but credits Ames’s down-home tutelage with teaching her how to ’really play.’ Described by one critic as ’Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin,’ others have compared her to Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Marica Ball and Norah Jones (our favorite line, though, involved something about ’an angel on Viagra.’) Never mind the comparisons. Eden’s fresh voice is one-of-a-kind, and her distinctive style, fusing elements of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop, is turning the heads of roots music lovers nationwide." - Yellow Dog Records -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is no question that she is “Little Boogaloo,” as she is often called: a supremely talented pianist and interpreter of classics by everyone from W.C. Handy to the Gershwins. But Mississippi Number One offers joyous proof that Eden Brent is also a gifted songwriter, a great vocal stylist, and a knock-out entertainer." - Julia Reed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mississippi Number One began as a solo record in April 2006 and is a tribute to my home and its blues highway, Mississippi State Highway 1, which is less traveled but follows the original blues highway, the Mississippi River, much more devotedly than its parallel neighbor, US Highway 61." - Eden Brent -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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