Patti Wicks @Chez Hanny
Patti Wicks - Piano, Voice
Jeff Chambers - bass
Florida based singer and pianist Patti Wicks excels on both her instruments. During a lengthy stint in New York City, she worked as a leader with such high caliber sidemen as bassists Sam Jones, Richard Davis, Brian Torff, Keter Betts and Mark Dresser, and drummers Curtis Boyd, Louis Hayes, Mickey Roker, Joe LaBarbera, and Alan Dawson.
In addition to her work as a leader, Wicks played with veteran jazz musicians Flip Phillips, Clark Terry, Cecil Payne, Frank Morgan, Ira Sullivan, Pete Minger, Richie Cole, Larry Coryell and Turk Mauro. She has also accompanied jazz vocalists Anita O'Day, Sheila Jordan, Carol Sloane, Rebecca Parris, Roseanna Vitro and Giacomo Gates.
In October 2003 jazz legend Marian McPartland invited Patti to be her guest on National Public Radio's award-winning series “Piano Jazz”.
Reviewing Patti's CD “Room At The Top” for National Public Radio's “Jazz Riffs”, critic Joel E. Siegel observed, “The album establishes [Wicks] as a world class singer/pianist in the tradition of Nat Cole, Jeri Southern and Shirley Horn.”
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Cost: $20