Occupation(s) Musician Name Catherine Russell Parents Carline Ray, Luis Russell | Instruments Vocals Movies Basket Case | |
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Catherine Russell (born 1956) is a contemporary jazz and blues vocalist.
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Her father, the late Luis Russell, was Louis Armstrong's long-time musical director, and her mother, the late Carline Ray, held degrees from both Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music and performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm during World War II.

From 2002 through 2004, Russell worked with David Bowie as a band member, providing backing vocals and featured contributions on guitar, keyboard and percussion for Bowie's Heathen Tour, A Reality Tour, and his late-2003 album Reality.

With the 2004 suspension of Bowie's touring career, Catherine signaled a new dedication to her solo career as a leading jazz and blues singer, and respected interpreter of popular and forgotten standards. Five fully conceived and excellently produced albums have followed, about one every two years, supported by an extensive touring schedule in Asia, Australia, Europe and the US.

With Russell's deep and genuine roots in jazz and the blues, a reputation for talent and quality performances, significant exposure in the country's jazz and other music venues (including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center), Russell has become well known in jazz circles and, as of January 2014, was the second best-selling female artist on several jazz charts. [source coming]
Russell's cover of the 1920s song "Crazy Blues" was used in Episode 10, Season 1 of the HBO drama Boardwalk Empire. This song was included on a soundtrack recording that won in 2012 for Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 54th Grammy Awards.
Discography
Songs
Bring It Back
Can't We Be Friends
Inside This Heart of Mine
Aged and Mellow
Just Because You Can
Put Me Down Easy
Romance in the Dark
Quiet Whiskey
Strange as It Seems
Under the Spell of the Blues
I'm Sticking With You Baby
Deep in a Dream
My Man's an Undertaker
You've Got Me Under Your Thumb
Kitchen Man
Everybody Loves My Baby
Lucille
Sad Lover Blues
All the Cats Join In
I'm Shooting High
Blue Memories
Satchel Mouth Baby
New Speedway Boogie
My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
The Poker
Where Can I Go Without You
The Darktown Strutters' Ball
Luci
Darn That Dream
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
I'm Lazy - That's All
The Late - Late Show