EDEN BRENT "JIGSAW HEART"

Eden Brent piano playing and singing style ranges from a melancholic whisper to a full-blown juke joint holler. She's simultaneously confident and confiding, ably blending an earthy meld of jazz, blues, soul, and pop as she huskily invites listeners into her lazy, lush world.That world lies just north of Greenville, Mississippi on the two-lane Highway 1, which follows the twists and turns of the river through fecund swampland, time-forgotten plantations, and blink-and-you'll-miss-'em communities like Rosedale, Beulah, and Stovall before it dead ends into Highway 61 just south of Onward.It was there that Brent was able to develop her gutsy vocal-and-piano chops via family sing-a-longs and a 16-year apprenticeship with the late blues pioneer Boogaloo Ames, who ultimately dubbed his protégé "Little Boogaloo.""Music school taught me to think, but Boogaloo taught me to boogie-woogie," says Brent, who appeared alongside her mentor in the 1999 PBS documentary Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound and in the 2002 South African production Forty Days in the Delta.Where most 21st century roots musicians merely emulate their heroes, Brent and Ames were both "soul mate and road buddies," says lifelong friend (and acclaimed journalist) Julia Reed. "She was a young white woman of privilege and he was an aging black man in the Mississippi Delta, but theirs is a phenomenal story of mutual admiration and need."Yet much more than the blues flows through Brent's talented hands: Critics laud her "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin" attitude, compare her to jazz/pop dynamos Norah Jones and Sarah Vaughn, and wax effusively about her "whiskey-smoke" voice, which serves as a constant reminder that Greenville, nestled into a bend of the Mississippi River, is located a few hundred miles north of New Orleans.Whether booked as a solo artist or bandleader, Brent's performance is fresh and spontaneous, often filled with audience requests and participation. Her unshakable talent and her carefree demeanor have taken her across the country and around the world, but the 2009 Blues Music Awards cemented Eden's place as one of the fresh voices propelling this vital American music forward. She was nominated in four categories, winning both "Acoustic Album of the Year" and "Acoustic Artist of the Year" honors (joining Buddy Guy, B.B. King, and Janiva Magness as the only multi-category winners for the year). As Chip Eagle, publisher of Blues Revue, BluesWax, and Dirty Linen says, "in Eden's huge playing and singing you can hear the ghosts of Mississippi in a duet with the future of the blues." EDEN BRENT
 

EDEN BRENT

Eden Brent, nata il 16 Nov, 1965 a Greenville, Mississippi, è una premiata musicista americana, indipendente di Yellow Dog Records etichetta. Blues, pianista e vocalist, dove unisce boogie-woogie con elementi di blues, jazz, soul, gospel e pop. Il suo stile vocale è stato paragonato a Bessie Smith , Memphis Minnie e Aretha Franklin . Ha preso lezioni da Abie "Boogaloo" Ames, un blues tradizionale e boogie woogie pianista e alla fine ha guadagnato il soprannome di " Boogaloo Piccolo ". Nel 2006, ha vinto il Blues Foundation, e anche l'International Blues Challenge. Insieme ad altri premi, Brent ha ottenuto due 2009 il Blues Music Awards, uno per artista acustico dell'anno, l'altro per Acoustic Album of the Year (Mississippi Number One). Eden Brent è nata e cresciuta a Greenville, Mississippi. Brent ha studiato jazz e musica presso la University of North Texas , laureandosi con una laurea in musica. Nel 1985, alla fine degli anni azzurri, il pioniere Boogaloo Ames la prese sotto la sua ala per 16 anni, il suo soprannome era Boogaloo Little. Questo è stato l'apprendistato avanzato di Brent. È stata descritta a fianco di Ames nel 1999, nel documentario Boogaloo & Eden, a sostenere il suono e nella produzione 2002 del Sud Africa, quaranta giorni nel Delta. Brent è apparsa in tutto il paese ed eventi, come il Kennedy Center, del 2000 Convention nazionale repubblicana, del 2005 all' inaugurazione presidenziale (condividendo il palco con BB King ), il Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, l'Ambasciata britannica, il Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, l'Edmonton, il Blues Festival, l'annuale BB Homecoming King, e a bordo della Ritmo Legendary & Blues Cruise.  EDEN BRENT