Jazz Artists: vocalists

	Shelley Burns Shelley Burns and Avalon Swing Shelley Burns Quartet Shelley Burns Trio
You can listen to Shelley singing Loverman on this radio provided by her website (where you can also listen to other selections).

Shelley Burns started singing and dancing as a child with the Burns Sisters Quartet and continues as a featured vocalist in jazz and pop groups, radio and television commercials and recordings. A two-time nominee as best jazz musician for the Sacramento Music Award.

Shelley performs with a number of Sacramento musical groups, and with her band "Shelley Burns and Avalon Swing" at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee and at other jazz festivals around the world. Shelley has an extensive knowledge of standard jazz repertoire, having over thirty-five years of experience as a professional jazz vocalist, working with world-class musicians.

"Compelling and imaginative" are the adjectives Bob Byler of Jazz Times uses to describe Shelley's vocal stylings.

Shelley participated in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival '96, with a theater troupe from California in a show called 'Jazzbirds,' and was a featured guest artist at the '96 International Jazz and Blues Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Most recently, she performed for three weeks in March, 2006 in Athens, Greece with the Andreas Thermos Quartet.

Shelley has recently produced her fourth album with her popular dance and show ensemble Avalon Swing. Her latest two recordings with jazz trios, receive airplay on jazz radio stations across the country. She performs at numerous jazz festivals, annually at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, and is a two-time nominee as best jazz musician for the Sacramento Music Award. Unique arrangements of jazz standards highlight her performances throughout the West with pianist Bob Fylling.

Marcus Crowder of The Sacramento Bee writes "Burns' new release, Let Yourself Go," is a classy, bright-sounding collection that could easily propel the versatile singer to new heights."

A certified Speech Level Singing instructer, Shelley has been teaching voice for nineteen years--a technique based on a series of vocal exercises that will strengthen vocal folds to improve range, flexibility and control. Her lessons are filled with helpful breathing exercises, health tips for singers, and application of technique to song. Students are encouraged to participate in recitals. Shelley also teaches voice at the Mammoth Lakes Jazz Jubilee Jazz Camp and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Camp where she has performed in concert with jazz greats, Abe Most and the late Gene Estes.

Peter Haugen, the theater critic for the Sacramento Bee, writes "Jazz singer Burns ...has a winning mastery of pop phrasing. She makes it sound easy."