Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley welcomes the debut of Tatiana Eva-Marie & The Avalon Jazz Band for two nights playing music of the Django tradition with gypsy and French jazz influences. Band members are: Tatiana Eva Marie (vocals), Davide Laura (violin), Wallace Stelzer (bass) and Max O’Rourke (guitar). Show times Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm. Door open at 6:00pm each night.
ARTIST INFO
“A charming throwback to Parisian café music of the 1930s, and the Hot Club of France in particular, Tatiana Eva-Marie embraces anachronism with a busker’s nerve. But as she demonstrates on her most recent album, Djangology, she is after more than stylish evocation, locating the drifting lyricism and cosmopolitan flair within the manouche jazz tradition.” – Nate Chinen
Nicknamed the Gypsy-jazz Warbler by the New York Times, Tatiana Eva-Marie is a transatlantic bandleader, singer, author, and actress. She plays music derived from the Django tradition with Gypsy and French jazz influences.
Accruing 100 million views on YouTube, Tatiana Eva-Marie was acclaimed as “a millennial shaking up the jazz scene” by magazine Vanity Fair. She performs regularly in New York at various clubs (Blue Note, Dizzy’s, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Birdland…), across the USA (New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, Freight and Salvage, Winter JazzFest, Rochester Jazz Festival, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, Tucson Jazz Festival…) and around the world (recently Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom…).
Though her interests have led her to explore a wide range of musical styles, Tatiana Eva-Marie’s craft is always inspired by her own French and Balkan heritage; a love for the Parisian art scene era spanning the 1920s to the 60s; a passion for traditional Gypsy songs; a fascination for New Orleans music; and a deep connection to the Great American Songbook.
Born into a family of musicians, poets, and painters, Tatiana-Eva-Marie began her career at age four, as a singer and actress, immersed in a world of show business, arts, and culture. Before her twenties, she had already recorded many albums, established herself as an actress on the Paris stage, and written and directed two musicals, while pursuing a Master’s Degree in medieval literature at the Sorbonne University. She developed a fascination for the Renaissance Man archetype and began to travel the world collaborating with artists of various spheres. She then chose New York City as her home base, where she quickly built up a reputation as a singer, at first leading the Avalon Jazz Band, which became overnight the number one reference for French swing around the world.
In the past five years, Tatiana released six albums, including collaborations with pianists Jeremy Corren and Terry Waldo; was featured as guest singer in various projects; starred in Gerome Barry’s film – which she partially co-wrote – Swing Rendez-Vous, loosely based on her life in the New York jazz scene; started an online arts and culture publication Shrine Magazine; exposed her artwork in her first exhibit in West Virginia; and wrote the libretto for Eden Park, an opera by composer Gerard Massini. Completely dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to artistic creation, she is at the same time lyricist, arranger, producer, and artistic director on most of her projects. Also a collage artist, she conceived and created the artwork for her latest album Djangology, released on GroundUp Music in June 2024.
She is currently working on publishing a Django songbook with her original lyrics; writing the libretto for a second opera. Her latest album A Whole New World a collection of Disney songs in French, was released in April 2025 on Burton Avenue with a Virgin International distribution. Her next album Django’s Tiger, in collaboration with Swiss band The Echos of Django and violinist Daniel Garlitsky, is set to be released by the end of 2025. She is planning a recording of a second duo album with pianist Jeremy Corren in September, a tribute to songs from movies of the French and American golden age of cinema.
Tatiana’s project Djangology is a reinvention of the music composed by Parisian guitarist Django Reinhardt – the father of Gypsy jazz – through the addition of her own original lyrics and arrangements.
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