Sissy Jazzes it up with veteran jazz musician Sarah McLawler LIVE on The Sissy Gamache Show

March 30, 2011 - PRLog -- Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Hammond B-3 organist Sarah McLawler was raised in the church with gospel music. She studied organ at an Indiana Conservatory. Influenced heavily by the music of the big bands, McLawler used to sneak into clubs in Indianapolis to hear Lucky Millinder's big band. She ended up going on the road with the bandleader, and later formed an ahead-of-its-time all-woman band, the Syn-Co-Ettes. They spent some time as a house band at Chicago's Savoy Club.

After meeting Richard Otto, a classical violinist who liked to play jazz, at a residency at a Brooklyn club, she married him and the two spent years touring and recording together. As fixtures on the New York jazz scene in the 1950s, they became friends with the likes of Milt Jackson, Errol Garner, Dinah Washington, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr. and others. Washington was so taken with her playing, she once offered to be her manager.

McLawler's singles for the King and Brunswick labels, recorded in the 1950s, are now collectors' items, and they include sides like "I Can't Stop Loving You" "Love, Sweet Love," both for King, as well as "Red Light" "Tipping In" "Let's Get the Party Rocking" and "Blue Room." Her recordings with violinist Otto include "Somehow," "Yesterday" "Body & Soul" for Brunswick, and "Babe in the Woods" "Relax, Miss Frisky" "Flamingo" "Canadian Sunset" and "At the Break of Day" for Vee-Jay.

She continues to perform jazz standards, because she feels a lot of the popular jazz standards have never gotten enough recognition. Her major shows include recent Newport Jazz Festivals and the Newark Jazz Festival. She's based herself in New York City for many years andperforms periodically at the Novotel hotel.

She is the recipient of The U.S. Congress 2009 American Jazz Legend Award
and the Jazz Organ Fellowship Society 2010 Award for Excellence and The Development of the Jazz Organ Combo.

Now she sits down with Sissy to share her musical journey with her and our audience LIVE Friday night 7:30pm EST on MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network) Channel 56 Time Warner Cable in Manhattan or on our website www.thesissygamacheshow.com

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The Sissy Gamache Show has hit its second year of a successful run on MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network) Channel 56 airing live Fridays at 7:30pm.The Sissy Gamache show was created to provide an outlet for people in the arts and media in relation to all industries to talk about their contribution to their profession and community in an open and free environment with someone who is experiencing the same journey herself. Ms Gamache is an actress originally from Costa Rica and has been acting since she was a child in Film & Theatre. Her vibrant, positive energy is a vital part of the experience of the show and has left guests wanting to come back for more. Some of Ms Gamache’s most prominent guests include Joe Franklin, Marilyn Sokol (actress, Sex and the City), John Michael Bolger (actor, Public Enemies), Teddy Atlas (ESPN), Sebastian Silva (Director, The Maid) and musical guests including Maud in Cahoots. Photos and more information www.thesissygamacheshow.com