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3 Martini Jeannie / Jeannie Tanner
Compare to: Adele, Lizzo, Alicia Keys
Chicago, IL, USA
3 Martini Jeannie is band that plays pop, R&B and rocking originals, and they bring down the house!
Jeannie Tanner is an award winning composer with 7 Grammy-considered albums and 5 ASCAP composer awards. She is a singer-songwriter, vocalist, piano player, trumpeter, percussionist and producer (music and podcasts), who performs and records her original music: a mix of pop, R&B, jazz and Latin rhythms. Jeannie's music has been used for many television shows including Single Ladies (VH1) produced by Queen Latifah), Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (Netflix), Revenge (ABC), Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo), Fox NFL Kickoff and Days of Our Lives (NBC). She scored the music for Bong Zombies (Amazon), and her songs have been featured in many television movies. As a performer, Ms. Tanner has headlined at top Chicago area venues/festivals performing with her groups 3 Martini Jeannie (3MJ) and the Jeannie Tanner Quartet, including City Winery, Northalsted Market Days, Pridefest, Midsommarfest,, Taste of Chicago, Winter's Jazz Club, Andy's Jazz Club, Reggie's, the Park West and more.
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Testimonials
Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune - Music Critic
"Chicago does not lack for engaging jazz trumpeters, vocalists, pianists, bandleaders, songwriters and arrangers — but how many can do it all? Jeannie Tanner happens to be one… If you've ever been fortunate enough to hear her pick up a horn, or sing a ballad or unveil an original song, you know that she practically exudes music."
Dan Healy
Chicago Jazz Magazine - Music Critic
"Tanner is well established in Chicago as a brilliant composer, vocalist and trumpeter, but on this project (Words & Music) she’s decided to cede the vocal mic to kindred singer spirits. Her compositions showcase many musical styles, ranging from the Great American Songbook, to gospel, to straight-ahead jazz and to adult contemporary. It’s certainly another terrific recorded entry from a magnificent composer. All of the featured vocalists are in top form on every Tanner composition, and this album is highly recommended."
Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune - Music Critic
Jeannie Tanner: "Joyful Season" (Tanner Time Records). Trumpeters who sing as well as Chicagoan Tanner are as rare as singers who play trumpet as well as she does. Both these talents — as well as Tanner's achievements as songwriter and arranger — radiate from the entirety of "Joyful Season," a recording brimming with optimism and hope. The sweet but unsentimental nature of Tanner's vocals in original songs such as "Christmas in a Cup" and "Joyful Season" and the obvious craft of her melodic writing in "You're My Gift Forever" and the blues-tinged "Wintery Sort of Feeling" distinguish this album. It's difficult to explain how one artist can do so many things so well, but listeners will be thankful that she does. Because "Joyful Season" was released last year to little fanfare, it deserves attention this time around. The strength of the writing and pervasive elegance of the performances are well worth a listen.
Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune - Music Critic
Jeannie Tanner: A triple-threat Chicago singer-trumpeter-composer, Tanner probably couldn’t play an unmusical phrase if she wanted to. When she appeared in a Billie Holiday centennial tribute last April at Davenport’s, she distinguished herself with unusually subtle vocals in “Body and Soul,” played trumpet with heartbreaking lyricism and showed the poetry of her songwriting in “Promise Me the Moon.”
Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune - Music Critic
Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune) wrote of Tanner’s show at Winter’s Jazz Club in Chicago— “It takes a certain amount of gumption to pair an original song with one by Arlen, inevitably inviting comparisons. But Tanner forged ahead, opening a two-song medley with the master’s “It’s Only a Paper Moon” before turning to her familiar “Promise Me the Moon.” Tanner’s medium-swing tempo and ultra-polished vocal delivery in Arlen’s song set the stage for a brief – too brief, actually – passage of scat singing, and that served as a transition to “Promise Me the Moon.” Remarkably, Tanner’s song felt quite comfortable in this exalted setting, its marriage of lyric and melody clearly predicated on the traditions of Arlen’s era.…Tanner’s tribute to Arlen reminds us that the art of tautly conceived songwriting has not yet vanished.”
Besflores Nievera Jr,
WDCB Radio (Chicago) - DJ
This collection is beyond any disc I've listened to in a long time. It's a superb collaboration between composer and her muses, all top flight musicians and joined by some of the greatest voices in Chicago - Words & Music is a 2-disc masterpiece!
Jason Marck
Morning Shift, WBEZ 91.5 FM - Host
“When I listen to your music, I’m reminded of what we call standards. That’s not just Tin Pan Alley with your Gershwins, Porter, your Rodgers and Hart; I also hear Brill Building influences like Mann & Weil, King & Goffin and Bacharach & David…”
Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune - Music Critic
(Harold Arlen tribute show at Winter's Jazz Club/Chicago) "…it was Tanner’s songwriting that provided the evening’s tour de force. She told the audience that she wrote “In the Green of Spring” and “Can’t Run Away Blues” in the manner of Arlen, and, indeed, the first offered exquisitely lush chord progressions; the second conjured 1930s songwriting while sidestepping cliché.
Ed Tracy
Conversations with Ed Tracy / Chicago - Host
"Words & Music is a gift for anyone who wants to understand the countless, colorful hues of true love... the yearning and thrill of expectation... the sweet range of emotions of realization... and savoring the sassy and soulful moments that will last forever."
Paul Abella
WDCB Radio (Chicago) - Music Director
Words & Music by Jeannie Tanner is Jeannie’s latest, and it’s a really unique concept for a CD: get 12 vocalists from around Chicago, write a bunch of tunes (a few with the specific vocalists in mind) and sit back and watch the magic happen. Jeannie herself appears on the trumpet in spots here and there, but for the most part, this is a showcase for, amongst others, Tammy McCann, Rose Colella, Paul Marinaro, Elaine Dame, Alyssa Allgood and Kimberly Gordon – a group that would be in any Chicago Jazz fan’s “A” list. Enjoy!