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Hi Melanie, here's Pietro from Italy. I’d like to have  a “special bio”, only for vinilemania, about you and Sal… your story and your future projects…. Just I'll receive it... you'll have a surprise :-))
 

Hi Sweetie,
Well, I just wrote you one because I LOVE surprises.  Especially good surprises.  And since I teach young musicians how to write their own bios, I better be able to write one quick for Sal and I.  So here is a bio written for you. I hope you like it.
I send you a big hug, Melanie

Biography of Sal Cracchiolo and Melanie Jackson

Sal Cracchiolo and Melanie Jackson first met each other at a, now defunct, jazz club in Hollywood called “The Vine Street Bar and Grill”.  Sal was playing there with Poncho Sanchez and Melanie was coming in to firm up a date for a future performance there. 
There was a lot of chemistry from the moment Sal said hello and touched Melanie's hand so gently.  That night in June of 1989 gave birth to a 16-year marriage and a collaboration of romance and music that have spawned a Latin Grammy nominated CD, compositions and performances of the two of them together ever since.

 Sal has performed on numerous albums, including 16 albums with the Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, 1 album with jazz legend Bobby Shew, and 1 album with Brian Setzers Big Band, to mention a few. He has also toured worldwide with Poncho Sanchez for 16 years. He has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Cal Tjader, Stanley Turentine, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Gary Foster, Arturo Sandoval, Eddie Harris, and Celia Cruz. He has performed for and with these artists at the Monterey, Playboy, Concord, and Nice Jazz Festivals plus many others throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and Japan. In addition, he has also played on such movie soundtracks as The Mambo Kings, The HBO Cinema Latin Session, and A Million to Juan. Sal is currently working with the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, with John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton and Jeff Clayton as leaders. 

They just finished performing at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., giving Lifetime Achievement awards to such artists as Benny Golson, James Moody, Nancy Wilson, Gerald Wilson, Clark Terry, and many others.  The Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchesstra will be backing Diana Krall in Las Vegas this summer, and will be touring Europe in November of 2007.

Melanie received her Bachelor's degrees in Music and Journalism from the University of California and a the same time was rated L.A.'s fourth best local jazz act by Music Connection magazine in 1979. In 1980 she moved to New York and sang with various big bands, performing at The Cookery and Michaels Pub. Later she moved back to L.A. and headed for the studio, recording commercials and television network promos. She has toured as a background vocalist throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, South America and Japan, working with such acts as REO Speedwagon, Latin artist Jose Luis Rodriguez on CBS International, and Leonard Cohen.

   Their debut album “Fly” was recorded in three days, live.  The day after they wrapped up in December of 1999, Sal and Melanie flew to Rome to perform with a 90 voice choir and 120 piece orchestra for Pope John Paul II for the opening of the Holy Doors an the Jubileo of 2000 at the Vatican on Christmas Day, 1999.  When they came back, they performed for the Playboy Jazz Festival's community concerts, The Vancouver Jazz Festival (Rossini's Jazz Club) and various popular jazz clubs in Southern California.  In 2002, “Fly” was nominated for a Latin Grammy.  In 2004, the California Arts Council sponsored Sal and Melanie. January 2006, Sal and Melanie flew to Bangkok, Thailand to perform for the American School of Bangkok in a tribute to the King of Thailand and to raise money for the tsunami victims.  This year, Sal and Melanie were flown to Bangkok again to perform the H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and also at the Thai Cultural Arts Center with Benny Goodman's trombonist, Urbie Green and members of Maynard Ferguson's big band to celebrate the King's 60 year reign of Thailand.
     Melanie and Sal have also been teaching.  Sal is a mentor with the Los Angeles Jazz Society and is an instructor for the Monterey Jazz Festival summer camps for youth.  Melanie is an adjunct professor at Santa Ana College and teaches Jazz History, and a Music Business class. They are both members of the International Association for Jazz Education.
     Melanie has currently been collaborating lyrically with Mark Levine (The Latin Tinge).  Sal and Melanie will be recording their next Latin Jazz CD later this year.  They are also planning on doing a Big Band CD for Sal for his jazz clinics.

MELANIE JACKSON & SAL CRACCHIOLO's article  by  Patricia Albela

 

MELANIE JACKSON & SAL CRACCHIOLO  - FLY (2000)

Sal Cracchiolo, trumpeter of Grammy Award Winning Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band has teamed up with singer, Melanie Jackson to incorporate a wonderful blend of jazz standards and originals done with a Latin touch.
The musicians who play on this CD are no slouches either. All of them are pros who can give your ears a treat by turning on your CD player and turning up the volume. The CD features well-known studio legend, Gary Foster on alto sax, Poncho Sanchez, on three cuts and a host of fantastic rhythm players such as Jose “Papo” Rodriguez on percussion, Joe Rotondi and Jim Szilagyi on piano, Rene Camacho and Putter Smith on bass, and Kendall Kay on drums. Larold Rebhun, sound engineer for the X-files, La Femme Nikita and more, also helped Sal and Melanie to produce this project

Melanie Jackson - vocals
Sal Cracchiolo - Trumpet
Joey Rotondi -  piano 
Jim Szilagy -  piano
Rene Camacho -  bass
Putter Smith -  bass 
Kendall Kay -  drums
Jose "Papo" Rodriguez -  percussion, conga and bata
Poncho Sanchez -  percussion and conga 
Gary Foster -  alto sax 
Larold Rebhun -  engineer and co-producer 
Charlie Otwell -  arrangements 

MELANIE JACKSON & SAL CRACCHIOLO  - FLY (2003)

Review by Patricia Albela: MELANIE JACKSON & SAL CRACCHIOLO  - FLY (2000)

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 01-Sweet bean

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 02-Fly

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 03-A spring day with you

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 04-Si no hay amor

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 05-Waltz for Debby

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 06-Moanin

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 07-One note Samba

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 08-If I should lose you

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 09-When October goes

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 10-Like someone in love

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 11-A night in Tunisia

Melanie Jackson & Sal Cracchiolo Fly (2000) 12-It might as well be spring

 

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ANDREA BAKER - CANDLES IN THE WIND (2005)FABIANA PASSONI - E' MINHA VEZ (2007)PHILLIP LAMBRO - MURPH THE SURF (2007)GRUPO LATIN VIBE - AMANECER (2007)ASCANIO SCANO - SACUDELO (2008)BERNIE KENERSON - JUST YOU & ME (2007)

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