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ROBERTA DONNAY solo
My Heart Belongs To Satchmo & the Prohibition Mob Band project..
Jun 19, 2019

Welcome.  We appreciate you being here!

Brand new video! 

"I'm A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)"  (My Heart Belongs to Satchmo) 

Check out this, just released, on our video page..

CD "My Heart Belongs To Satchmo" released 2018, on Blujazz.  Produced by Roberta Donnay, Sam Bevan, Matt Wong.  Arranged by Matt Wong, Sam Bevan, Roberta Donnay, except for Pennies From Heaven: Instruments arranged by Sam Bevan, Vocal Arrangement by Roberta Donnay, Annie Stocking, and Dan Hicks (with new and additional lyrics by Dan Hicks).

Prohibition Mob Band:  Roberta Donnay-vocals, John R. Burr-piano, Sam Bevan-bass, Deszon Claiborne-drums, Rich Armstrong-cornet / trumpet, Mike Rinta-trombone, Sheldon Brown-clarinet, Matt Baxter-guitar

Featured July 2018 Issue of DownBeat Magazine:  

http://downbeat.com/news/detail/roberta-donnay-takes-satchmo-to-heart 

To purchase music:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Belongs-Satchmo-Roberta-Donnay-Prohibition/dp/B079T7N615

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/my-heart-belongs-to-satchmo/1348706264

CDBaby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/myheartbelongstosatchmo 

http://robertadonnay.com/music/

Please contact rainforest@robertadonnay.com for info and Bookings.

Please contact Blujazz for PR and Radio ​info@blujazz.com

 

BOB DOROUGH ~ ROBERTA DONNAY

- New Jazz Recording to be released this year -

Here's the back story:

We're so very excited to announce this

Previously Unreleased Recording

Bob Dorough & Roberta Donnay's version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" hit radio airwaves over the 2018 Holiday Season. Even with the banning of this song in certain markets, the song still got a lot of play on jazz & public radio across the US.

Upcoming EP features Bob Dorough’s compositions, some never heard, along with a few reimagined numbers formerly recorded by Bob Dorough and Blossom Dearie.

Bob Dorough first met Roberta Donnay backstage at The Hooker’s Ball in San Francisco many years ago, where they both performed. Bob told her he dug her singing. Donnay asked him “What’s YOUR name?” “Bob Dorough” and she replied “THE Bob Dorough?” And he replied,“You mean you know who I am?

Donnay recorded two Bob Dorough songs “Devil May Care” and “Small Day Tomorrow” on her “What’s Your Story”

CD, produced by Jazz Master Orrin Keepnews featuring Eric Reed Trio (2008, Pacific Coast Jazz) .

Keepnews phoned Donnay one day and told her Bob said he played Donnay's version of “Small Day Tomorrow”

3 times a day every day in his car, and that it was his favorite version ever recorded.

Bob did some shows touring with “Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks” and came to hear them when they were near his hometown. Dan and Bob were big fans of one another. Donnay sang with Dan’s group 2005-2016.

One day Richard Connolly, Producer, Circumstancial Productions, came backstage and told Donnay he wanted to do a recording with Bob and her.

In January 2011, Donnay flew to NJ, rented a car, drove to rural Pennsylvania to Bob’s house, and rehearsed for the recording. The following nite after rehearsal, they performed together at The Deer Head Inn, local jazz club, and the day after that they were at a studio in NY, recording live.

Bob told Donnay that his wish was for them to tour together.

The recording sat for all these many (8) years.  

We're sad to say our amazing friend Bob Dorough passed last year, April 23, 2018.

We hope you enjoy this! 

In 2019 Bob Dorough received the NEA Jazz Masters Awards.

Bob Dorough NEA Jazz Masters Award link: https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/bob-dorough

Check out the video on the new video page!

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Video: Live: 'Ol Man Mose:

Video: "My Heart Belongs To Satchmo":

ROBERTA DONNAY & The PROHIBITION MOB BAND are available for Performing Arts Centers, Festivals, special events, tours and house concerts. Ms. Donnay is available for recording sessions, production, songwriting, music supervision, workshops, coaching, and consultations.  For bookings, please contact: rainforest@robertadonnay.com or Management Eddy Bee: eddybee@pacbell.net

To see more videos, please go to our Video page here or search YouTube.com - Roberta Donnay 

Contact us if you'd like to host a house concert for the touring group: rainforest@robertadonnay.com

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"[Roberta Donnay's] engagement with the lyrics,

her supple sense of time and her soulful, little-girl timbre remind you of Billie Holiday."

-Mike Zwerin, International Herald Tribune. 

 

"Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band present a modern

take of the hot swingin' jazz and sultry blues of the 1920s and 30s that

will make you want to dance all night!" - Verdi Club

 

"With her singularly enticing sound, few contemporary vocalists are

as well suited to dustily vintage material as jazz-blues stylist Roberta Donnay.."

- JAZZ TIMES

 

"Roberta Donnay is a Jazz Age preservationist, guardian of Depression-era sounds, and extender of  traditions...." – All About Jazz 

 

All photos by Eddy Bee Images: http://www.eddybeeimages.com/

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