Alison Ruble

Alison Ruble is a dynamic performer from Chicago who has established a reputation in jazz circles as a versatile vocalist with a warm, engaging sound and a respected bandleader with acclaimed groups. Her style and repertoire give a generous nod to the classic jazz standards, but also incorporate more modern strains, producing a poignant blend of music that is at once familiar and surprising. In the summer of 2008, she headlined at the 30th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival to a capacity crowd in Chicago's Grant Park.

In the summer of 2008, she headlined at the 30th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival to a capacity crowd in Chicago's Grant Park. She made her New York debut at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2006 as a featured performer in the Mabel Mercer Foundation's 21st Anniversary Cabaret Celebration. Since arriving on the Chicago jazz scene in 2001, she has performed regularly at top jazz clubs, including the Green Mill Jazz Club, Andy's Jazz Club, Pops for Champagne, Pete Miller's, The Pump Room, as well as special performances at Chicago's Peninsula, Ritz-Carlton and Drake Hotels.

As a featured soloist, she has performed on the NBC, ABC and WGN-TV networks and starred with the world-renowned Jazz Ambassadors Big Band.

Her critically-acclaimed debut release, This Is a Bird (Origin Records, 2008), brings together some of the Chicago music scene's most forward-thinking players for a set of re-envisioned jazz standards. The album features the playing and arrangements of Chicago guitar great, John McLean, whose 25-year career has taken him center-stage with such notable artists as Kurt Elling, Mose Allison, Dave Douglas, Patricia Barber and many more. Alison casts her rich alto in a variety of open-ended settings that deftly reference classic jazz, even as she stretches the boundaries of "The Great American Songbook."


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