Dominique Eade
Education and Training
BM and AD, New England Conservatory. Studied voice with Nancy Armstrong and Jeannie Lovetri; studies with Dave Holland, Ran Blake, Stanley Cowell, Bob Moses.
Awards and Recognition
Jazz Journalists Association Top Ten Recording of the Year for Open, 2006
Talent Deserving Wider Recognition in Down Beat Critics Poll, 1998
Billboard Top Ten Jazz CD, 1995
Outstanding Jazz Vocalist in the Boston Music Awards
New England Conservatory Outstanding Alumni Award
Designated “best jazz singer” in Entertainment Weekly’s Regional Raves, 1997
Nominated for best new artist by the First Annual Jazz Awards
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Division: College
Department: Jazz Studies; Contemporary Musical Arts
Instrument: Voice
Dominique Eade has been a featured vocalist and composer in the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Jazz in Toulon Festival in France, the Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway, the What Is Jazz? Festival in New York, and the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and an artist-in-residence, clinician, and performer at the Wichita and Litchfield jazz festivals. Eade performs regularly in the U.S. and Europe.
Her debut CD on RCA Victor, When the Wind Was Cool, appeared in 1998 Top Ten lists in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, and in Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines.
Her second RCA Victor CD, The Long Way Home, was released in 1999, with contributions by Dave Holland, Victor Lewis, Mick Goodrick, and Bruce Barth. Her earlier CD, My Resistance Is Low, was voted one of the top ten jazz CDs of 1995 by Billboard.
Eade has recorded with Bruce Barth, Stanley Cowell, Alan Dawson, Benny Golson, Fred Hersch, Dave Holland, George Mraz, Lewis Nash, and Steve Nelson, and has performed with Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Mark Helias, Gene Bertoncini, Peter Leitch, Donald Brown, Butch Morris, Mick Goodrick, Ran Blake, and a number of contemporary ensembles.
Recordings on RCA Victor, Accurate.
Curriculum Vitae
BM and AD, New England Conservatory. Studied voice with Nancy Armstrong and Jeannie Lovetri; studies with Dave Holland, Ran Blake, Stanley Cowell, Bob Moses.
- Jazz Journalists Association Top Ten Recording of the Year for Open, 2006
- Talent Deserving Wider Recognition in Down Beat Critics Poll, 1998
- Billboard Top Ten Jazz CD, 1995
- Outstanding Jazz Vocalist in the Boston Music Awards
- New England Conservatory Outstanding Alumni Award
- Designated “best jazz singer” in Entertainment Weekly’s Regional Raves, 1997
- Nominated for best new artist by the First Annual Jazz Awards
Affiliated Departments and Programs
Jazz Studies