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Dennis Rowland (USA)

Dennis Rowland was singing 7 years in a legendary orchestra of Count Basie, vigorous and charming Afro-American singer in whose creativity the standard, "classical" jazz and a rhythm-and-blues, funk, even typical pop co-exist harmoniously.

Growing up in a musical family, Rowland began singing as a child. Inevitably influenced by Motown Records, he also heard and greatly admired the singing of Joe Williams, whose hit record of "Every Day I Have The Blues", with Count Basie, was popular in the mid-50s. Nurturing ambitions to be a singer and an actor, Rowland patiently developed his crafts and in 1977 was rewarded when he was engaged to sing with the Basie band. The engagement lasted until Basie's death, in 1984. During this period he toured worldwide, describing these years as "an awesome experience. I felt like a kid in a candy store". In 1980 he sang on the band's Grammy Award-winning On The Road.
After leaving the band, Rowland was able to spend more time with his other passion and acted in Jesus Christ Superstar, Big River, The Seven Deadly Sins, which also featured Cleo Laine, and, in the mid-90s, Blues In The Night. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Rowland continues to sing as well as act and in 1995 was signed by Concord Records, making an album with former Basie drummer Gregg Field and which also features Snooky Young, Pete Chrieslieb, Joe Sample and Eric Marienthal. Rowland's strong baritone is ideally suited to ballads which he sings with warmth and expressiveness. On mid- to up-tempo songs he swings as befits a singer with his background.
 

Ticket: from 900 р.

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