- Kitty Brazelton
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Kitty Brazelton (b. 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American vocalist, composer, flutist, and lead singer of the art-rock/alternative rock/avant-garde jazz band Dadadah. Brazelton is the daughter of pediatrician and author T. Berry Brazelton.
Brazelton attended Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in music from Columbia University in 1994. She was formerly married to jazz critic and president of the Jazz Journalists Association Howard Mandel and currently teaches composition at Bennington College in Vermont.
At Bennington, Brazelton lent her talents to the singing voice of the character 'Angel' in the student film Camp Blood: The Musical.
Other former Dadadah members include saxophonist Danny Weiss, Tom Varner, Tracy Turner, trombonist Chris Washburne, Elizabeth Panzer, Mary Wooten, Hui Cox on guitar, Chris Tso, Ed Broms, Eunice Holland, bassist Roland S. Wilson and Jim Pugliese.
Albums
- Dadadah (1996). Rise Up!. Accurate Distortion 1003.
- Dadadah (1999). Love Not Love Lust Not Lust. Buzz 76005.
- Kitty Brazelton (2002). Chamber Music for the Inner Ear. CRI Emergency 889.
- Kitty Brazelton and Dafna Naphtali (2003). What Is It Like to Be a Bat?. Tzadik 7707.
External links
Categories:- American composers
- Swarthmore College alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1951 births
- Living people
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