![]() “Jake Blanton, an amazingly talented guitarist and member of one of my ensembles at the time, played some chords behind my melody, and the tune was born!” Dave Aaberg will arrange the final version, and Hagenbach says, “The audience, the City Light Jazz Orchestra, and I will experience it for the first time together.” Photo by Karen Swope “It’s a poem by my good friend, Mark Schroer the melody came to me instantly as I read it,” Hagenbach says. Photo by Karen SwopeĪn original composition co-written by Hagenbach, titled On the Road Eastward, will also be performed. Performing alongside Hagenbach is veteran jazz performer and bandleader David Basse. The performance celebrates Juneteenth under the direction of Angela Ward, and is titled, “A Tribute to Black Female Composers,” featuring compositions by Melba Liston, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday. Hagenbach is set to perform with the City Light Jazz Orchestra, one of Kansas City’s premiere jazz ensembles, at Topeka’s Sunflower Music Festival, on June 19th. “But in 1990, I heard Sarah Vaughan sing Black Coffee while driving north on I-435 it changed my whole perspective on music, vocals in particular, and the rest is history.” I played trombone and rhythm keyboards and sang background and lead, primarily Earth, Wind, and Fire covers,” she explains. “I’ve sung in choirs and even in the infamous One Way Band, a garage band of teenagers. Hagenbach is multitalented with a background in instrumental as well as vocal performance. Personally, I am a child of 70s funk.” Leslie Washington (far right) provided by Angela Hagenbach But then my other sisters were all about Motown. ![]() “My elder brothers were into Jimmy Smith and Hugh Masekela. ![]() “My eldest sister was fond of playing film scores from epic films like El Cid and Ben Hur she had an entire film score repertoire of sheet music for piano,” Hagenbach explains. The seventh of eight children, Hagenbach cites the influences and interests of her siblings. “I had yet to learn my dad was a working jazz musician during the late 1920s to 1940s.” Leslie Washington provided by Angela Hagenbach The Kansas City-based jazz vocalist remembers “listening to mom play Chopin, Debussy, and other classics on the piano.” Her father, jazz musician and saxophonist Leslie Washington, would sometimes “accompany her with various wind instruments, primarily the clarinet and the flute,” Hagenbach recalls. Angela Hagenbach grew up surrounded by music.
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