About Provincetown Jazz Festival @ P-Town...Kieran Brown
Rising star New York City based Jazz Vocalist Kieran Brown is thrilled to be on Cape Cod this summer. She is a multi-genre vocalist, composer, and arranger with a strong concentration in Jazz, R&B, and The American Songbook, Kieran has quickly proved to be a true force on the NYC jazz scene, performing alongside highly esteemed musicians such as former members of the John Pizzarelli Quartet Konrad Paszkudski and Mike Karn, Emmet Cohen, Joe Farnsworth, and many others. She regularly appears at top NYC Jazz venues, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club, Birdland Jazz Club, The Django, Mezzrow Jazz Club, and has been a featured vocalist at Madison Square Garden to sing the National Anthem. Her highly anticipated debut album will be released in 2025. Kieran will be accompanied by Michael Rocha?on trombone also making his festival debut, Matt Baker on piano, Ron Ormsby on bass, and Bart Weisman on drums.
Matt Baker
Matt Baker will open the concert and is an Australian born Jazz Pianist and leader of a powerful trio in New York City where he has called home since 2010. He performs regularly as a sideman at jazz venues including Birdland, The Blue Note and Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, tours both within the USA and internationally as a bandleader and sideman and has released 6 albums, his latest a DVD album "Live at Birdland." Matt Baker's sideman credits include touring and performing with vocalists Ann Hampton Callaway, Jennifer Holliday, Vanessa Williams, Patti LaBelle, Veronica Swift, Tierney Sutton, Arianna Neikrug, guitar icon Bucky Pizzarelli, tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm and Judy Collins. Matt Baker was an award winner himself in the 2003 Montreux International Solo Jazz Piano competition and a semi-finalist in 2004 and 2005. A student of Taylor Eigsti's since moving to New York, Matt watched Oscar Peterson perform live an entire week at the Blue Note, from which a friendship between the two formed in the remaining years of Peterson's life. Baker has also studied with Mulgrew Miller, Benny Green, Jacky Terrasson, and Ella Fitzgerald's life-long accompanist Paul Smith. Matt will be accompanied by Ron Ormsby on bass and Bart Weisman on drums.