Blue Martini Jazz

Jeanine has performed extensively in and around her home base of Toronto, and built a substantial following of loyal fans. She has recorded and produced two albums, and as well as performing with Blue Martini Jazz can be seen regularly with her self titled R&B band. Jeanine has a unique gift as a singer and performer, the rare ability to find the hidden truth in anything she sings, carve out her own emotional territory, and make the performance her own. The result is an evening that transcends mere rendition and with the thoughtful choice of music and lyric leaves the audience asking questions about their own lives. With the release of their debut C.D.( The Night We Called It A Day ) Jeanine and Pat have come together to form BLUE MARTINI JAZZ, and set out on a journey to find in her words "our place ". Pat Perez has performed on numerous television shows, records, film scores, concerts, and club dates with a variety of local and international artists. He has written music for television and theatre productions and won a dora mavor moore award for his theatre work as well as recording two albums of original material. He has toured extensively nationally and internationally. "I sat in with Jeanine's band one night and was knocked out with every thing she did, but toward the end of the evening she sang a jazz standard and I knew she was very special. She has a wonderful sense of phrasing and I felt I knew just how to compliment it, when to add something, when to pull back, and after a few choruses It became one long beautiful sentence with a great sense of shape, line and space. Sometimes when you play with people they just know what to do, nothing has to be said they just feel it, and that's how it was. Jeanine has an extra dimension in her performance, she gets lost in the song she feels it so deeply, and for that brief time she's on stage the audience feels it with her, thats rare. All through that tune there was such a beautiful musical understanding between us. I think the idea for Blue martini Jazz started right there".