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Inga Swearingen Jazz Vocalist Vocal Color

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Learning How to Fly/Fly Me to the Moon Learning How to Fly/Fly Me to the Moon Inga Swearingen, vocals Ryan Garcia, guitar Clint Iwanicha, bass Mike Raynor, drums Linda Vanasupa, piano

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Inga Swearingen Jazz Vocalist Inga has received many awards for her performing including: First Prize and Prize of the Public at the Montreux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition Numerous performances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio show

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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JAZZ SINGING Instrumental approach to the voice Vocal Improvisation Scat singing AND Use of vocal colors to imitate different instruments, highlight texts or specific words and/or emotions

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Vocal ColorVocal ColorVocal ColorVocal Color Vocal color is the varying of vocal timbre to highlight specific texts, words and emotions. (Dr. Jon Clements, Assistant Professor of Music at Arkansas Tech University)

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Samples of adjectives used to describe vocal color Dark Breathy Warm Chocolaty Mellow Silky Bright Husky Steely Smokey Tinny

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INGAS USE OF VOCAL COLORS How would you describe Ingas vocal color? Do you hear other ways in which she experiments with her voice to depict an instrument, word or emotion?

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INGAS VOCAL INFLUENCES Bobby McFerrin Ella Fitzgerald Joni Mitchell Studied voice with Dr. Jon Clements while at Florida State University

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Resources http://ingaswearingen.com/presskit/ Ware, Clifton. Basics of Vocal Pedagogy: The Foundations and Process of Singing, 1998. learning how to fly/fly me to the moon. Sabena Start and Patti Cathcart Andress, Bart Howard, arranged by Inga Swearingen. Inga Swearingen with Trio 14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing