Birth name Diana Ariadne Panton Name Diana Panton Origin Canada Role Vocalist | Occupation(s) Vocalist Genres Jazz Website www.dianapanton.com | |
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Awards Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year Nominations Independent Music Award for Best Album - Concept Albums to Brazil with love, Yesterday Perhaps, I Believe in Little Things, If the Moon Turns Green, Pink Similar Don Thompson, Laura Fygi, Guido Basso, Halie Loren, LuLu and the TomCat | ||
Diana panton jazz vocal
Diana Panton is a Canadian jazz vocalist. She won a Juno Award in 2017 for her album I Believe in Little Things and a 2015 Juno award for Vocal Jazz Album for RED. She received three nominations in the same category for her albums If the Moon Turns Green... in 2009, To Brazil with Love in 2012, and Christmas Kiss in 2013. I Believe in Little Things debuted at #8 on Billboard. Her first album, ...Yesterday Perhaps, and her third album, Pink, were awarded Silver Disc Awards by Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine.
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Panton started her music career as a member of the Hamilton All Star Jazz Bands. After hearing her perform with this band, veteran multi-instrumentalist Don Thompson invited her to attend the Banff Centre, where he was a faculty member. This led to Thompson's collaboration on Panton's albums a decade later.
Panton holds a Master's degree in French literature from McMaster University and studied art at the Parsons School in Paris. She teaches French, art, and drama at Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Discography
On all eight albums, Panton is accompanied by Don Thompson on piano and double bass and Reg Schwager on guitar. Thompson also plays vibraphone on Pink, To Brazil with Love, Christmas Kiss, and I Believe in Little Things.
On Pink and Christmas Kiss, she is accompanied by Guido Basso on flugelhorn, trumpet, and cornet.
On To Brazil with Love, she is accompanied by Maninho Costa on vocals, drums, and percussion, Bill McBirnie on flute, Kiki Misumi on cello, and Silas Silva on drums and percussion.
Phil Dwyer plays saxophone on RED.
Coenraad Bloemendal plays cello on I Believe in Little Things.
Harrison Kennedy sings on "Christmas Kiss" and on "Red".
The version of Pink released in Japan includes one bonus track not found on the Canadian version of this album.
My Heart Sings is a live recording of a concert in Taipei on August 20, 2013.
In addition to the above albums issued under her name, Panton sings on the 2012 Peter Appleyard album, Sophisticated Ladies.