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Maria Jacobs Trio Livestream @ BOP STOP

January 23 from 8:00pm - 9:15pm

Maria Jacobs Trio Livestream @ BOP STOP

Maria Jacobs brings her trio to BOP STOP for a livestreamed performance! Maria is celebrating the successful release of her original Christmas single entitled Emmanuel which charted nationally on the smooth jazz holiday charts. Tune in to the BOP STOP's Facebook page at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are greatly appreciated and can be made here: https://givebutter.com/mariajacobs

Maria's Trio features:

  • Maria Jacobs, vocals
  • Aidan Plank, bass
  • Rock Wehrmann, piano

Maria Jacobs an American jazz vocalist, singer songwriter and author, born of Syrian Lebanese and Armenian descent. She is an Adjunct Professor of Applied Vocal Jazz at Kent State University, her second alma mater, from which she graduated Cum Laude. She is a licensed music educator, a Principal Conductor and Curriculum Advisor for The Open Tone Music Academy, partnering with Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Maria is a national voice over artist and a national smooth jazz recording artist whose original song, Pour Me A Cup of Yesterday, is heard on smooth jazz stations across the country. She has charted on the Groove Jazz Charts and the Smooth Jazz Holiday Charts, 2019.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Maria became interested in jazz singing at a very early age thanks to her father Mike Jacobs, a drummer and singer, who performs the Great American Songbook throughout the Greater Cleveland area. He exposed Maria to jazz music from vocalists Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, to drummers Gene Krupa and Chic Webb, and frequently brought Maria to the bandstand to sing.

As a teenager, Maria became enthralled with singer/songwriters Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor and more. Not long after, she began writing music in the Jazz, Pop, R&B and Gospel genres.

This former traffic reporter and disc jockey lived in Los Angeles for twelve years where she sang prestigious venues including The Ritz Carlton, The Four Seasons, B.B. Kings Blues Club and The Torrance Civic Center to name a few. She recorded with several well-known artists including Alphonso Johnson and Ndugu Chancler of Weather Report. Maria has co-written and recorded with platinum selling writer/producer Tommy Coster and sang and soloed with acclaimed keyboardist/songwriter Lafayette Carthon and his Gospel group FAITH and recorded with Grammy Award winning producer Pete Tokar. She has opened for acts like jazz trumpeter/songwriter Chuck Mangione (The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano,) The Average White Band, British Soul Band Loose Ends (Cleveland, Ohio) and jazz singer/songwriter Bob Dorough (Columbus, Ohio.) Maria has been a featured soloist with other acclaimed artists, such as Music Director Damien Sneed (Wynton Marsalis), William Henry Caldwell and Robert Porco (Cleveland Orchestra), Byron Stripling and the Columbus Jazz Arts Group and the Jazz Heritage Orchestra. Maria has released eight solo albums: No Frills, Free As A Dove, Chasing Dreams, Art of the Duo, Here Comes Winter, Lucky Girl, the compilation album Hold On Your Heart and the live album Bootleggin' at the Bop Stop. She performs in Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, Columbus and some historic Cleveland venues including Severance Hall, Playhouse Square, Nighttown, Blu Jazz, The Bop Stop, the House of Blues and The TV8 Morning Show.

Maria’s jazz albums have received wonderful reviews from jazz historian and author Scott Yanow. She has written over 100 songs and is a royalty earning member of ASCAP. Maria has presented master classes in songwriting at The Music Settlement and pop vocal technique at Kent State University - Stark Campus. She is a 2016 inductee to the Brooklyn High School Hall of Fame, her Alma Mater. Her albums can be found on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify and Apple Music to name a few.

You can also find Maria on the International Movie Data Base (IMDb) as a composer of the theme song for the award-winning film and television show So This is Love, and as an actress in the independent filmResearch: The Musical.

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