Suzanne Cloud Quartet

Anyone who comes to see me in a nightclub gets an authentic jazz singer with a band that features some of the best musicians from the Philadelphia area. I sing originals and many compositions from the Great American Songbook, including some classic rock and blues songs.

For any gigs that I'm hired for outside of nightclubs, I tailor my performances to what the client needs from me. If the client wants soft, atmospheric sophisticated music in the background, that's what the client gets. If the client likes a guitar trio rather than a piano trio, that's fine too. Add a saxophone? Done! For corporate affairs, my band can work around speeches and networking, adapting to the mood of the moment.

Depending on the client's budget, I can provide the kind of band they want, as long as it is within a broad jazz genre. I don't do disco (been there done that!) or punk rock.

Suzanne Cloud started her career in theater appearing as the lead in productions both musical and dramatic including Pajama Game, Silent Night, Lonely Night, an original musical version of Bell Book and Candle, touring with The Fantastiks, Carousel and South Pacific and finally Sex Tips for Modern Girls at the Society Hill Playhouse. Cloud also appeared in the PBS movie A Woman of Spirit about early feminist Lucretia Mott and was chosen to sing on the talent segment of NBC’s Fantasy Show. Cloud toured the East Coast with a Top 40 disco band while recording jingles for local banks, retail stores, Armstrong Floors, Comcast Cable and the tune “Come Fly With Me” for the production show at the Playboy Casino in Atlantic City. But by 1980, Cloud had switched from cover bands and jingles to jazz and quickly began working with some of Philadelphia’s best jazz artists including: jazz fusion pioneer Eddie Green, famed trumpeter Johnny Coles, pianist Uri Caine, bassist Tyrone Brown, bassist Gerald Veasley, saxophonist Larry McKenna, pianist Sam Dockery, pianist Jim Ridl, bassist Darryl Hall, guitarist Jef Lee Johnson, drummer Jim Miller, and bariman Denis DiBlasio.

Cloud’s radio appearances include many interviews on WHYY-NPR The Bob Perkins Show, WRTI—Jazz 90 NPR Live at the Painted Bride, WRTI—Jazz 90 Live at the Aztec and Live from Fairmount Park, WDAS Jazz World, WDCU in Washington DC, The Jerry Hanlon Show and WHYY Radio Times with Marty Moss Coane. Cloud has played all the major hotels in Philadelphia and Atlantic City as well as the jazz clubs Not Quite Cricket (where she ran a famous jam session in the mid-1980s), Zanzibar Blue, The Upstairs, The Blue Note, Just Jazz, and the Borgia Café. She also was featured at many of the Mellon Jazz Festivals, the Berks County Jazz Festivals and Willingboro Jazz Festivals. Suzanne also shared the stage with other female performers for Jazz at the Mann appearance that featured Flora Purim, Odetta, Sonia Sanchez, Mavis Staples, Regina Carter and others.

Discography:
I like It! (Suzanne Cloud and Eddie Green)
Reflections of Childhood (Denis DiBlasio)
Rhino (Denis DiBlasio)
With a Little Help from My Friends (Suzanne Cloud and assorted featured Philly jazz artists)
Monkadelphia (Jim Miller/Tony Miceli)
Looking Back (Suzanne Cloud)
If It’s Not One Thing (Jim Miller),
Yo. Philadelphia! (a compilation of Philadelphia jazz artists),
It’s Another Miller Time (2007)
Reissue: With a Little Help From My Friends w/ added tracks

Technical requirements can be discussed when the booking is arranged. My band and I can bring a complete sound set up for any room if need be, small or large. If the client has a PA system, we can work with that too. If the client has an acoustic piano, that can probably get you a discount on the price!