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HISTORY EXCLUSIVE:
DIONNE
FARRIS AND THE RUSSELL GUNN QUARTET BRING JAZZ, FUNK, CONSCIOUS HIP
HOP TO YOSHI’S SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27
Who:
Dionne Farris & the Russell Gunn Quartet
When:
8 p.m., Wednesday Feb. 27th,
Where:
Yoshi’s San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore St., San Francisco, CA
Info:
http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco
Dionne
Farris has performed and recorded the likes of hip-hop, pop, soul,
gospel, and modern R&B and now adds jazz to her repertoire. Born
in the land of the funk, (Plainfield, New Jersey), she grew up
listening to everything from P-Funk to the song styling’s of the
great jazz singers, (the latter influenced by her maternal
grandparents), and with all that stirring inside, it was bound to
show up at some point in her musical DNA.
A certified member
of the hip-hop generation by age and geography (the hardcore ghetto
of East St. Louis), Russell Gunn’s early aspirations in the world
of rap music took precedence over the trumpet that he began playing
in fourth grade. When he reached sixteen, the deadline he set for his
hip-hop career to take off, his dedication to the art of jazz took
shape.
When GRAMMY®-winning vocalist Dionne Farris and
GRAMMY®-nominated trumpeter Russell Gunn, took the stage at the
Atlanta jazz club Churchill Grounds on Oct. 12th & 13th, 2012’,
the assemblage of music lovers that gathered to see them didn’t
exactly know what they were in store for. The redefining of Farris’s
music by Gunn on her new project, “Dionne Get Your Gunn: Featuring
the Russell Gunn Quartet” is a complete departure from her last
release, (2011) Lady Dy The Mixtape Part 1. Russell’s arrangement
of Dionne’s #1 pop hit “I Know,” on DGYG is done in 5/4 time
signature, which never misses a beat and neither does Farris, in her
sticking of new landings for the song.
Dionne and Russell
have embarked on a musical journey that will lift them higher along
with inspiring those that support them.
Four
interesting facts about Dionne Farris:
Her
new CD, “Dionne Get Your Gunn: Featuring the Russell Gunn Quartet”
will be available exclusively at the Yoshi’s San Francisco show.
She
was a member of the conscious hip-hop group, Arrested Development, in
the nineties.
She
said that she cannot leave the building without preforming her
signature tune, “Hopeless.” Farris and Gunn will put their own
spin on the song at Yoshi’s San Francisco.
Iconic
rapper Tupac Shakur said that Dionne Farris’ music comforted him
during his incarceration.
Visit
Dionne Farris:
Like
her on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Dionne-Farris/17902143117?fref=ts
Visit
Russell Gunn:
Like
him on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Russell-Gunn/107820329240504?nr
