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About the Duo
Kim
Prevost and guitarist Bill Solley has been racing the high road to
success since winning the 1999 "BET on Jazz" Jazz Discovery Award.
Individually and together, they've performed with musical greats
like Arturo Sandoval, Bobby McFerrin, Nicolas Payton, Nine Inch
Nails, Oleta Adams, Ed Calle, Sammy Figaroa and Allen
Toussaint. Both artists are natives of the birthplace of jazz, New
Orleans. They have appeared at numerous festivals, and have toured
extensively from England to the Netherlands, Japan,Denmark, Brazil, South
Africa, Argentina, Germany, the United States with plenty
stops in between. They are repeat performers at the Umbria
Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. With
five music releases, the latest release entitled "Just in Time " on
Enthropya Records, the musical duo have received critical
acclaim from numerous publications including Jazz times, Just Jazz
Guitar, Allmusic.com, and Offbeat.
Kim
Prevost is an accomplished vocalist and songwriter. She has worked
in all facets of the entertainment industry. She began singing as a
child, in church choirs, where she often performed duets with the
pastor, her father. In addition to completing eight years of
ballet, tap and jazz dance
training, she also worked extensively as a model for companies
such as Saks Fifth Avenue. She continued to sing, dance and model
throughout her college years. Her theater credits include leading
roles in "Sweet Charity" "Dreamgirls",
"West Side Story" " A Dose of Reality" and a
Cole Porter review under the musical direction
of music great Allen Toussaint. Additional credits
include several commercials and dancing for the MTV show "NFL
Jams Live".She was
chronicled in a feature documentary about her family gospel roots
entitled “Full Circle: Journey Back to
Gospel”. She is a featured vocalist on "The
Fragile" of Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails.
Bill
Solley has performed at numerous clubs and festivals around the
world, including recent appearances at the New Orleans Jazz And
Heritage Festival and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy.
He is well versed in bebop, fusion and Brazilian music, but his
current forte is accompanying many of the fine jazz
singers across the country including his beautiful vocal
partner Kim. His credits include performances and recording dates
with many jazz
musicians such as Dale Valentine, Terri Lynn Carrington, Phil
Degruy, Stanley Jordan, the Headhunters with Mike Clake, Paul
Jackson, and Bill Summers. Bill was
proud to take part in the blockbuster motion film "Ray" in which he was the guitar
instructor to actor Terrence Howard. He and Kim can also be seen in
the recent documentary “No Cross , No Crown”.
Audiences and reviewers alike have all proclaimed Kim Prevost &
Bill Solley to be an artistically invigorating and, most important
of all, downright entertaining musical duo. Visit the website now!
Jazz
Times Magazine reviews the duo's work, "This kind of
chemistry comes along only once in a blue moon. Think Joe Pass and Ella
Fitzgerald in their classic Pablo encounters of the early 70s...with a
modernist spin" - Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times
Magazine
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additional photos of Kim and Bill, click the link below,
What happens
when Prevost's irresistible vocal force meets Solley's immovable
instrumental object? Their fine artistic brew translates into well
deserved success. As one critic states,
"Prevost
slides effortlessly between elegant, formal jazz vocalizing and
soulful R&B singing. Solley emulates a band without getting lost in
the technique...He mixes fleet single note runs and quick, smart
chords, all the while backing himself by thumb-popping the bass
string."-Alex Rawls, writer for
Gambit Weekly, Offbeat Magazine
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link below to hear their catalog of music
Reviewing
Prevost and Solley first CD. I
Would Give All my Love, All Music Guide's Dave Nathan said, "There
are, of course, other notable vocal guitar duos: Ella Fitzgerald and
Joe Pass, Irene Kral and Laurindo Almeida, Jeri Southern and Johnny
Smith. None of these, however, are as daring and outrageous as Prevost
and Solley on this recording. With Prevost's perfect pitch, excellent
diction, ability to scat, swoop and bend words backed by Solley's
tightly strung seven -string guitar, I Would Give All my Love is good
music and a lot of fun.
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