Opens: June 23, 2:00 PM; Doors open  at 1:30 PM
Admission: $50-$75 Student: $25 

Healdsburg Jazz will bring Lisa Fischer to the Raven as part of the 2024 Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Fischer has emerged over the past decade as one of the most powerful vocalists in the world. The Brooklyn native was already a highly sought-after background singer when she scored a chart-topping R&B hit, “How Can I Ease the Pain,” and a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance with her 1991 debut album So Intense. She has toured with The Rolling Stones, Luther Vandross, Sting, and Tina Turner, among so many others, and gained widespread public acclaim after being featured in the  Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom.

Fischer and Taylor Eigsti, the Grammy Award-winning pianist, have been working together since 2018 as a duo. The initial concept involved developing a repertoire of hit songs that she sang on, creating settings that allowed plenty of space for improvisational interplay and extended detours. She’s also become an essential muse to San Francisco choreographer Alonzo King, creating scores for and performing on stage with his LINES Ballet company numerous times over the past five years, including recent performances at the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. For this performance with Adji Cissoko and Shuaib Elhassan, two sensational dancers who both joined LINES in 2014, Fischer is drawing partly on the score she created for King’s “Deep River” with pianist Jason Moran among others. For New York-raised Elhassan and German-Senegalese Cissoko, who have been encouraged by King to stretch their improvisational wings, it’s an opportunity to respond directly to the music-making in real time with musicians who live in the moment.

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