MELANIE CHARLES
(Booking in North America)
LINEUP:
MELANIE CHARLES:
(Scalable from solo to quintet)
Melanie Charles- vocals/keys/flute + drums, bass, keyboards, and horn.
MARK de CLIVE-LOWE, SHIGETO, & MELANIE CHARLES
Mark de Clive-Lowe - keys/synth, Shigeto - drums, Melanie Charles - vocals/flute/fx
TOUR:
Feb 27, 2023: New York, NY @ Blue Note Jazz Club
Apr 05, 2023: Albany, CA @ Ivy Room (w/ Mark de Clive-Lowe & Shigeto)
Apr 06, 2023: Los Angeles, CA @ Jazz Is Dead at Lodge Room (w/ Mark de Clive-Lowe & Shigeto)
Apr 21, 2023: New York, NY @ LPR
May 06, 2023: Minneapolis, MN @ Dakota
May 07, 2023: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
May 09, 2023: Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
May 11, 2023: Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
May 12, 2023: Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom
May 13 2023: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
May 21, 2023: San Jose, CA @ Levitt Pavilion San Jose
Jun 17, 2023: New York, NY @ Nublu
Jul 28-30, 2023: Philadelphia, PA @ South Jazz Kitchen
Aug 03, 2023: Tupper Lake, NY @ Adirondack Gin & Jazz Festival
Aug 26, 2023: Detroit, MI @ New Center Park (w/ Mark de Clive-Lowe & Shigeto)
Sep 23, 2023: Chicago, IL @ Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Oct 19-21, 2023: TBA
2024 - Available upon request
2025 - Available upon request
BIO:
“Melanie Charles takes us on a journey that embodies the soul of jazz: exploration.” —NPR
There are very few artists whose sound can capture the sentiments of a generation. The Brooklyn born and raised, Melanie Charles, is one of these artists. Over the past few decades, she has made a name for herself through dynamic engagements with jazz, soul, and R&B. Her bold genre-bending style has been embraced by a range of artists including Wynton Marsalis, SZA, Mach-Hommy, Gorillaz, and The Roots. In 2021, she appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk and stunned with her eclectic style. Through it all, she has remained committed to making music that pushes listeners to consider new possibilities—both sonically and politically. “Make Jazz Trill Again,” a project that she launched in 2016, demonstrates her allegiance to everyday people, especially the youth and is focused on taking jazz from the museum to the streets. “I love jazz, I really fell in love with it deeply. But I was interested in young people interacting with it,” Charles says. The album Y’all Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women is reflective of Charles’ tremendous versatility and imagination as an artist but of also her deep care for community.
ALBUMs:
MELANIE CHARLES:
MARK de CLIVE-LOWE, SHIGETO, & MELANIE CHARLES
VIDEOS:
MELANIE CHARLES
MARK de CLIVE-LOWE, SHIGETO, & MELANIE CHARLES
PRESS:
“Breathing new life into a 1960s anthem for empowerment, Melanie Charles delivers a charged performance of Marlena Shaw’s “Woman of the Ghetto.”” - BILLBOARD, R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week
“Melanie Charles knows the impact Black women have had on jazz.” - Washington Post
”As a singer, flutist, beat-maker, remixer and conceptualist, Melanie Charles saturates Ya’ll Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women (Verve) — her first major-label album — with immense Black Girl Magic. And, in turn, the album transmutes and diffuses that magic spectacularly as she reimagines classic songs by Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and others with a personal, sometimes phantasmagoric spin.” - Downbeat
”…Melanie Charles breathes new energy into songs from the Verve vaults to create an unflinching and activist love letter to the unheralded labor of Black women.” - JAZZIZ