Beth Lederman (piano), Steven Powell (vocals), and Juli Woods (sax) play a mix of blues, jazz, and gospel.<\/p>\n
Beth Lederman is well-known for her sophisticated jazz and rhythmic Brazilian and Latin-jazz piano styles, not only in the Phoenix are<\/span>a b<\/span>ut throughout the\u00a0<\/span>w<\/span>estern\u00a0<\/span>United States\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0from Canada to Mexico. She has been playing professionally for more than 20 years, leading several bands and playing with such well-known names as The Diamonds, Bobbie Vinton, and the Drifters, as well as with local artists such as Dave Cook, Pete\u00a0<\/span>Pancrazi<\/span>, Alice Tatum, Dennis Rowland, Renee Patrick, Paul\u00a0<\/span>McDermand<\/span>, and her own groups, Jazz Con Alma and Novo Mundo. Her music is melodic, fun, fluid, passionate, innovative, heartfelt, rhythmic, eclectic, honest, artistic, humorous, and spontaneous.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For the past 20 years<\/span>\u2014<\/span>with four albums as a leader, several studio projects, and countless worldwide performances<\/span>\u2014<\/span>saxophonist, vocalist<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0and composer\u00a0<\/span>Juli<\/span>\u00a0Wood has established herself as a solid, swinging, lyrical, and entertaining performer. She has played many jazz clubs and festivals nationally and internationally<\/span>, including<\/span>\u00a0Chicago Jazz Fest, Hyde Park Jazz Fest, Milwaukee\u2019s Summerfest, Chicago\u2019s main jazz clubs\u2014Jazz Showcase, Green Mill, Andy\u2019s<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0and Katerina\u2019s<\/span>\u2014<\/span>Skansen Jazz and Blues (Stockholm , Sweden), Pori Jazz Fest (Finland), Bent J<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(Aarhus, Denmark), Storyville (Helsinki<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0Finland),\u00a0<\/span>Alandia<\/span>\u00a0Jazz Fest<\/span>ival<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00c5land<\/span>\u00a0Islands<\/span>, Finland) and the Made in Chicago jazz festival in Poznan<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0Poland<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0to name a few. Wood is in the tradition of saxophonists who were also great vocalists<\/span>, like<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Cleanhead<\/span>\u00a0Vincent, Eddie Harris, and Louis Jordan. Never has that been more apparent than in\u00a0<\/span>5 4 3 2 1\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Juli<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Wood<\/span><\/i>, her latest recording and most ambitious project to date.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beth Lederman (piano), Steven Powell (vocals), and Juli Woods (sax) play a mix of blues, jazz, and gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[36,44],"tribe_events_cat":[27,29],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}