Bio
ONLINE PODCAST INTERVIEW
A wonderfully inspirational audio podcast interview with Terese Genecco is available online at the following link:
www.GetTheProgram.com
Interviewed by David Coolidge and Jason Levinson, founders of "Get The Program.com."
RADIO INTERVIEW on NPR
Terese is interviewed by Marilyn Pittman of National Public Radio's (San Francisco-based) "Out In The Bay" radio broadcast. It is being edited for re-broadcast on April 24 and 27, 2008.
TERESE GENECCO - BIO
Terese Genecco (pronounced "Teh-REECE Jeh-NECK-oh") is originally from New York, but is also bi-coastal, splitting the majority of her performance time between San Francisco/Los Angeles, and New York City.
Terese is the San Francisco - Bay Area's reigning "Entertainer of the Year," a 2007 Backstage Bistro Award Winner, a 2008 MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) for Best Recording, a 2008 MAC Award nominee for Best Female Vocalist, a 2006 MAC Award nominee for Best Female Debut Performance, and Time Out Magazine's (NYC) Top Ten Best Cabaret Shows of 2006 AND 2007! She was also recently voted one of the Top Ten Best Cabaret Performers and one of the Top Ten Best CD's of 2007 in the Cabaret Hotline Online Members Choice Awards.
Genecco is best known for her award-winning performances (with her 7-piece *little big band*) in her own jazz, musical creation, "DRUNK WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCES FAYE!" This show made its world premiere in San Francisco, where it opened at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in July 2005, and ran for five consecutive weeks, before moving to New York City for multiple engagements at The Encore Showroom, Jazz@Lincoln Center, The Iridium Jazz Club, and more than a dozen performances at Manhattan's hottest nightclub, The Metropolitan Room.
Genecco is also now hailed as the hottest nightclub entertainment at the new Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko in downtown San Francisco. Genecco can be seen in "Last Call!" with her 7-piece *little big band* on select Saturday nights at 10:30 PM throughout the year.
Terese performs many of the original arrangements of the great Russell Garcia in her act. She also worked with pianist and arranger Mike Greensill, reed player, Tony Malfatti, and bassist Daniel Fabricant to further recreate the particular sound quality of the horn and rhythm sections used in the various studio and club bands Ms. Faye worked with. Terese's 7-piece *little big band,* as they have come to be known, brings an authentic mid-20th Century sound and energy to the show, playing in the style of Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Eddy Grady, Maynard Ferguson, and the West Coast style of jazz that emerged in the early 1950s. Frances Faye prominently featured Latin percussion in her 50s act, relying heavily on the stylings of Jack "Mr Bongo" Costanzo or George Escevedo. Until recently, Terese has employed the skills of the young and accomplished, Bay Area-based, Latin percussionist, Jacob Lawler, for West Coast performances, and percussionists, Joe Passaro and Mayra Casales, in New York City, to recreate the "Costanzo" effect on the show. In more recent performances of her follow-up show, "DRUNK WITH LOVE: THE SEQUEL!", JACK COSTANZO himself, is featured in the role he created for Faye almost fifty years ago, and he continues to perform in Genecco's newest creation, "Last Call!"
Terese's *little big band* roster changes regularly, but these are the masterful musicians you are most likely to see on stage with Terese: Mike Greensill, Kelly Park, Barry Lloyd, and Tammy Hall sharing duties with Terese at the piano; Daniel Fabricant, Rene Camacho, Tom Hubbard, Bill Moring, John Wiitala, and Fred Randolph on bass; Kelly Park, Randy Odell, Mikey Holguin, Brian Fishler, and Gaspar Bertoncelj on drums; Jack Costanzo, Jacob Lawlor, Dominic Cabrera, Sage Baggott, Joe Passaro, and Mayra Casales on Latin percussion; Rich Armstrong, Ellen Seeling, Chris Rogers, and Bud Burridge on trumpet; Tony Malfatti, Fil Lorenz, and Jean Feinberg on the saxophones, and Max Perkoff and Mara Fox on trombone.
More information about Frances Faye can be found at this fan site:
http://www.tyleralpern.com/francesfaye.html
Terese recorded her 2008 MAC Award-winning debut CD, "DRUNK WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCES FAYE!" (her live tribute show) over a weekend in October of 2006 at The Metropolitan Room in NYC. It was released on the BUG:OUT:MUSIC label in April of 2007, and can be considered a companion piece to Ms. Faye's "Caught In The Act" LP's, which are currently available through GNP Crescendo Records, and distributed online through iTunes, Amazon.com and other music retailers.
In the words of the legendary Frances Faye, "HORNS UP!!!!"
Discography:
"DRUNK WITH LOVE" ~ TERESE GENECCO
BUG:OUT:MUSIC ~ April 2007
"WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS" ~ RUSS LORENSON
LML Music, August 2006
(Terese appears, as a guest vocalist on track #9, on the Grammy Nominated CD by this San Francisco-based crooner.)
Ms. Genecco is a graduate of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (BFA in Music Theater) and has appeared in various stage productions, concerts, and solo shows. She studied voice, piano, percussion, guitar, dance, composition, arrangement, choreography, and acting throughout her life and career at the Hochstein/Eastman School of Music, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Carnegie-Mellon and Penn State University summer programs, and with Daniel Marek of the NY Metropolitan Opera.
Terese has performed in major venues around the San Francisco Bay Area, including a recurring Saturday night series at the new RRAZZ ROOM in the Hotel Nikko. She has also performed regularly at the legendary jazz venue, JAZZ AT PEARL'S, the historic cabaret venue, The Empire PLUSH ROOM (now closed,) The Purple Onion, COPIA, The New Conservatory Theatre Center, ODC Theater, Kelly’s of Alameda (now closed,) Octavia Lounge, and The Herbst Theatre.
In New York, Terese has performed at Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Birdland, the Iridium Jazz Club, The Metropolitan Room, and The Encore Showroom (now closed.) She has also appeared in Los Angeles at The M Bar in Hollywood (where she appears again on July 26, 2008,) the Club Ten20, and The Gardenia.
In addition to her concert engagements, Terese was the lead singer and guitarist in the all-girl rock band, TREMR; she penned a full-length stage play, “The Quarry,” (which was produced at Pyramid Theater in Rochester, NY); and has written and performed stand-up comedy and spoken-word poetry.
She won the “Entertainer of the Year” award at the San Francisco Cabaret Competition in 2003 and still holds that title today.
Terese's favorite quote is:
“I think when you’re pretty, it doesn’t matter how you wear your hair!”
~The Fabulous Frances Faye