Dominique Eade

"Hearing Eade live, though, revealed something else — a fresh, inventive musical mind...She chooses each note deliberately and hits it dead-on, with a clear, bright, direct tone and a wide-screen range." Dominique Eade has been a featured vocalist and composer in the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Jazz in Toulon Festival in France, the Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway, the What Is Jazz? Festival in New York, and the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and an artist-in-residence, clinician, and performer at the Wichita and Litchfield jazz festivals. A frequent nominee for outstanding jazz vocalist in the Boston Music Awards since 1988, and the 1997 and 1999 winner in this category, Eade was also designated “best jazz singer” in Entertainment Weekly’s Regional Raves in 1997 and nominated for best new artist by the First Annual Jazz Awards (New York) in 1998. She was recognized in the 1998 Down Beat critics poll as “talent deserving wider recognition.”

Her debut CD on RCA Victor, When the Wind Was Cool, appeared in 1998 Top Ten lists in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, and in Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines. Her second RCA Victor CD, The Long Way Home, was released in 1999, with contributions by Dave Holland, Victor Lewis, Mick Goodrick, and Bruce Barth. Eade has recorded with Bruce Barth, Stanley Cowell, Alan Dawson, Benny Golson, Fred Hersch, Dave Holland, George Mraz, Lewis Nash, and Steve Nelson, and has performed with Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Mark Helias, Gene Bertoncini, Peter Leitch, Donald Brown, Butch Morris, Mick Goodrick, Ran Blake, and a number of contemporary ensembles. In 2006, Eade's recording with pianist Jed Wilson, Open, was named one of the top ten recordings of the year by critics in the Jazz Journalists Association. In 2007, Eade was the recipient of NEC's Outstanding Alumni Award. B.M., Artist Diploma, NEC. Voice with Nancy Armstrong and Jeannie Lovetri; studies with Dave Holland, Ran Blake, Stanley Cowell, Bob Moses. Recordings on RCA Victor, Accurate. AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Jazz Journalists Association Top Ten Recording of the Year for Open 2006
Talent Deserving Wider Recognition in DownBeat Critics Poll 1998
Billboard Top Ten Jazz CD for My Resistance Is Low 1995.