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Vannetter jazzes up the weekend
Dane Vannetter brings his soft and sweet jazz stylings to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum as part of the free Winter Jazz series headed up by drummer Bart Weisman. The concert is at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon and takes place in the PAAM galleries at 460 Commercial St., Provincetown.
Vannetter, who has three CDs (“Double Standards,” “Flight” and “Here’s to Life”) full of the jazz standards, will join Weisman along with Fred Boyle on piano and Chris Rathbun on bass for a holiday concert with a little something extra.
“Bart asked me to put together a holiday concert so it will be sort of upbeat. I love the great jazz standards with some holiday tunes sprinkled in,” Vannetter says by phone from his Boston home. He adds that he has some holiday music written by local musicians that he will be doing to change up the night.
When asked how he came to sing the standards instead of going toward rock or pop, he says his upbringing had a lot to do with it.
“I grew up in Muncie, Ind., and we didn’t have a supper club there,” he says. “Dad had an eclectic record collection from the embarrassingly bad to really great stuff like Billie Holiday. I was listening to pop but those songs stuck with me.
But his roots go deeper than that.
“My grandparents were both ministers and they sang and recorded songs for death row inmates,” he says. “My first nine years I lived with my grandmother. There wasn’t any TV but there was a piano and a guitar and a love of singing.”
His grandparents settled in North Carolina and continued their ministry that included working with inmates in the state prison, but Vannetter said his own father drew the line when his grandmother wanted to bring him along to the jailhouse sings and said absolutely not.
“I knew I wanted to be a singer but I didn’t know how that worked,” Vannetter says now. “I just had a vision and now I’m living that vision.”
That vision is full of jazz standards that he describes as snappy and fizzy. He loves anything by Rodgers and Hart, songs like “You Are Too Beautiful.”
Vannetter has picked up plenty of praise from Boston and New York critics and was awarded the 2006 Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist by Backstage in New York. The Boston Globe described a recent show as “a swinging, soaring adventure.”
Vannetter’s CDs are available at Amazon.com, at his own website www.danevannetter.com or locally at Muir Music in Provincetown.
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Dec 13th, 2007