Stephanie Nakasian at The Kitano - New York City Article

Stephanie Nakasian
The Kitano
66 Park Avenue, East 38th St, 212-885-7000
Wednesday July 11

Chances are you’ve been hearing about Stephanie Nakasian’s daughter, the 24-year-old bebop wunderkind Veronica Swift (currently appearing almost everywhere, including regular gigs at Birdland and an ongoing tour with Chris Botti). But talent has to come from somewhere, and Ms. Swift gives full credit to her parents, the late and much-missed modern jazz piano master Hod O’Brien and Ms. Nakasian, who has been a fave among jazz buffs ever since her tenure with Jon Hendricks and Company in the 1980s. Both mother and daughter share a fondness for - and revel in the legacy and influences of - Anita O’Day, June Christy and the larger school of jazz vocalists associated with Stan Kenton’s Orchestra: the cool vibrato-less tone, the bright, upbeat swinging sound, a rare gift for improvisation and a like-terminally-hip attitude,. Ms. Nakasian works in New York all too infrequently, so her appearances at this charming jewel box of a jazz club, which is situated, rather zen-like, in the middle of a Japanese hotel on Park Avenue, are all well worth catching.

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