Patricia Adams & Ray Santisi in Concert At The Brooklyn Public Library

As part of its Brooklyn Sings, Brooklyn Swings series, the Brooklyn Public Library presents The Patricia Adams Quintet in concert, Thursday evening, February 15th at 7:00 pm.

Patricia Adams, bandleader and vocalist, sings and swings her repertoire of jazz and blues standards from Tin Pan Alley and Harlem renaissance. Bringing together some of the best musicians in the Northeast, her music director, Berklee College of Music Professor Ray Santisi offers a rich and subtle perspective to the mix, a perspective born of working with such greats as Charlie Parker and Stan Getz. Both Diana Krall and Keith Jarrett are former students. Come hear this dynamic duo and the collective approach they take that attracts standing room only at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge, MA the first Sunday of each month.

Here's what reviewers say. "Patricia Adams sounded so upbeat throughout the last two sets that I caught. She had plenty to be happy about, not the least of which is the fact that more and more listeners are showing up. It's food for the ears." CADENCE Magazine, December 2006

"How can a woman with this many years in middle management sound so warm and personable, and even a bit like Lena Horne? Go! doesn't know, but she's got it." The BOSTON GLOBE, December 2004

For those of you who know Ray Santisi's work, you also know this is the Boston impresario's first visit to New York in decades. Santisi teaches piano and harmony at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Weekends, he gigs at Club Caravan in Revere, MA. Saturday afternoons and at Boston's Marriott Copley Sunday evenings. "When I'm in Boston, he plays for me at the Ryles Jazz Club brunch, the first Sunday of each month. His special touch is "the real thing". Patricia Adams


Additional: For directions by car and public transportation, log onto www.BrooklynPublicLibrary.org