Rollercoaster

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JAZZAZIZ gig: With the Russell Holmes Trio

Want pictures? Of course you want pictures!! Got some really cool snaps from the recent JAZZAZIZ gig… yay for trippy purple lighting!! Check more out here.

NEWS: I got grant #1!! So I’ve got the green light to invade WA with my music… now, to deal with the rollercoaster of confirming venues, people, places, things… here’s the best one I’ve had so far: “Oh, turns out we’re going to be rennovating our bar right during the time that we booked your gig, so we’ll have to postpone you by a couple of months. Sorry.” Lovely.
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JAZZAZIZ gig

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All photos by Craig Chiswell.

Space Ship News article 21/11/10 – “Shameem Taheri-Lee plays the Ellington”

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Shameem Taheri-Lee, dubbed Australia’s answer to Alicia Keys, is performing a landmark show in her young career at The Ellington Jazz Club at 6:30pm on Saturday December 5th.

2010 has been a busy year for this motivated young artist, who has been promoting her recently released EP “Universe for Afternoon Tea” in her home town of Perth, Australia. The first track of the recording, “Undertones”, was nominated for the 2010 WAM Song of the Year Awards.

“This performance is important because it is my last major gig before I set off to pursue some really important projects,” says the bubbly singer/ songwriter. “I have a lot of plans for 2011, such as touring Australia, recording my first full-length album and travelling to the UK to write with James Bryan, who co-wrote and produced Nelly Furtado’s recent #1 album.
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The West Australian article 19/11/10 – “Shameem farewell gig”

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Young jazz-pop diva Shameem Taheri-Lee will perform her last major gig at the Ellington Jazz Club on December 5 before she dedicates 2011 to national touring, recording an album and jetting to the UK to write with Nelly Furtado collaborator James Byran.

The producer discovered Taheri-Lee’s music online and invited her to travel overseas to work with him.

The exotic songstress, who was born in Australia to a Chinese-Malaysian father and Iranian mother, also counts jazz trumpet virtuoso James Morrison among her fans.

“With Shameem, you’d have to be locked in a lead-lined room to miss this lady’s sparkle,” he said.
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Midwest Times, article 20/05/10 – “Exciting jazz acts on the way”

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This Sunday will see a slightly new choice for music lovers in Geraldton, with the first of hopefully many monthly jazz sessions at L’Attitude 28 Bar.

I was recently in Perth helping install the A Day in Pompeii exhibition at the WA Museum. I took the opportunity to check the recently opened Ellington Jazz Bar in Northbridge and happened to see some of the artists that will be coming this way, mostly from the WA Academy of Performing Arts.
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Radio Interview RTR

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Check out the podcast of my interview with Helen Matthews from RTR fm.

Radio Interviews by Shameem Taheri-Lee

Projects, projects, projects…

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BLOG ENTRY 15/11/10

So I’m in limbo right now… waiting to see if grants come through for WA tour (planned for February) and the songwriting trip to the UK (planned for May). Hate this waiting! I’ve decided that if I don’t get the funding for the WA tour, that I’ll cut the tour in half and make it a short one, mainly around the south-west of WA. But the UK trip… gee, I could really do with that funding!

I’ve never been one to dwell a lot on money, but unfortunately it’s the name of my game this year, if I want to do the things that I want to do! I’m now starting to brainstorm for a tour to Australia’s eastern states (think: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane)… and that I will DEFINITELY need funding for.

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Xpress CD Launch plug

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Guardian Express, article 17/11/09 – “Talking all that jazz”

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Shameem Taheri-Lee will launch her first album this Friday at the Civic Hotel in Inglewood.

Taheri-Lee (21) is building a name for herself as a jazz singer, having performed professionally since 2004 and currently completing a jazz composition course at WAAPA.

Earlier this year, she was also a finalist in the prestigious James Morrison Generations in Jazz Vocal Scholarship.

She describes her solo work as ‘90s-esque R&B but played on acoustic instruments with a strong jazz influence.
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The West Australian, article 20/11/09 – “How Ella switched Shameem on to jazz”

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Up-and-coming jazz singer Shameem Taheri-Lee had huge singing ambitions as a child growing up in Perth.

“When I was a kid I grew up on the Thriller album by Michael Jackson and my dream was to do a duet with him one day,” she says.

Although she will never get a chance to perform her dream duet, Taheri-Lee’s musical ambitions have stayed strong and will be given a jump-start with the launch of her debut EP tonight.
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