Biography
WINNER 2009 MAC Award for Best Jazz Recording for Charmed Life
WINNER 2008 MAC Award for Best Original Song for 'I Remember' (featured on 'Charmed Life' music Russ Garcia/Lyrics Shaynee Rainbolt & Russ Garcia)
HONORABLE MENTION -2008 BILLBOARD WORLD SONG CONTEST for 'Charmed Life' music, Russell Garcia, Lyrics, Russell Garcia & Shaynee Rainbolt
Charmed Life named Top 10 Vocal CD's 2008 (talkinbroadway.com)
'Charmed Life' TOP Selling Pop-Jazz Albums CDBaby.com
Shaynee Rainbolt
included in
in Scott Yanow's new book:
The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide
Shaynee Rainbolt featured in Downbeat Magazine, August 2009
Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The first thing that grabs you about Shaynee Rainbolt is her voice-a warm, rich, multi-hued sound that can range from the intimacy of a sensuous whisper in your ear to a sexy strut down Fifth Avenue. It's a voice that one can imagine caressing a ballad, or scatting briskly through the changes of 'I Got Rhythm' backed by a bop-driven jazz quintet. And that's just for starters. She is, in other words, a singer for all seasons, underscoring her constant musical eclecticism with the subtleties of jazz-inflected phrasing and a sumptuous tone."
Shaynee's current project is groundbreaking: Shaynee Rainbolt SINGS Russ Garcia. As one of Jazz's foremost composer, conductor, arrangers, Russ Garcia has worked with everyone: Mel Torme, Anita O'Day, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Stan Kenton-just to name a few. His list of credits is too much to include here - but suffice it to say that in his 93 years, it is thrilling to finally see a vocal project consisting solely of his originals. Arranged and conducted by Russ for Shaynee.
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SHAYNEE RAINBOLT has performed at world-class NYC venues such as The Highline Ballroom, Jazz Standard, Iridium Jazz Club, The Metropolitan Room, The Rrazz Room, The Hideaway Room, Danny's Skylight Room & The River Room of Harlem. For almost two years the Shaynee Rainbolt Trio took the spotlight at Charley O's, in the heart of New York's Theater District. A transplant from the West Coast, she has performed in California at Yoshi's, The Rrazz Room, The Jazz Bakery, Catalina Jazz Club, The Empire Plush Room, Jazz at Pearl's, The Purple Onion, The Cosmopolitan, and Club Jazz Nouveau. She also has taken the stage at the Chat Noir in New Orleans, and Pizza on the Park and Pizza Express Jazz Club in London.
"AT HOME" released on UK based 33 Jazz Records hit the jazz charts and was nominated for the prestigious MAC 2007 Recording of The Year.
"Charmed Life: Shaynee Rainbolt SINGS Russell Garcia" was composed, conducted and arranged by Garcia himself. Arranged for voice and his signature Four Trombone Band sound so popular in the 50's and 60's, here you will get 16 songs, most of which have never been recorded before, including one that Russ Garcia wrote with Shaynee that won the 2008 MAC Award for Song of the Year.
"Charmed Life" is now charming audiences around the country. Named Best Jazz Recording by MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) this year, you can hear it on jazz radio around the globe, but audiences and critics agree that there's nothing like the four trombone sound LIVE.
Instrumentation
Shaynee Rainbolt SINGS Russell Garcia features a 7 piece ensemble with RUSS GARCIA's Signature FOUR TROMBONE BAND. That said, Shaynee often appears with a 5 pieces but Shaynee works with an eclectic array of musicians, and is stunning in a duo as well. In more intimate settings you might find her with a trio of piano bass and drums, or with a duo made up of any combination of piano, vibes, bass, guitar, or percussion.
Discography
2009: Charmed Life: Shaynee Rainbolt SINGS Russ Garcia (featuring RUSS GARCIA and his 4 TROMBONE BAND)
2006: At Home; 33Jazz Records (UK)
2002: From This Moment On; 33Jazz Records (UK)
Links
| http://www.shayneerainbolt.com |
| Shaynee Rainbolt on Facebook |
| Visit Shaynee on My Space |
| Shaynee Rainbolt on Youtube |
| Vist Russell Garcia on Myspace |
| Carolyn McClair Public Relations |