PRESS RELEASE:
Contact: Sue Auclair
M: 617.359.5771 | O: 617.522.1394
sue@sueauclair.com
For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
MS. LISA FISCHER
+ Grand Baton with JC Maillard
At Scullers Jazz Club
Fri + Sat| MAR 18 & 19
"Lisa Fischer is a more than a singer. She’s a sorceress,"
-- Christian John Wikane, POPMATTERS, August 2021
As Featured in the Academy Award® winning film
BOSTON, MA--Singer MS. LISA FISCHER will appear at Scullers Jazz Club, Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 19. Tickets are on sale now at ScullersJazz.com or by calling: (866) 777-8932. Scullers Jazz Club is located at 400 Soldiers Field Road in the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel-Boston - Cambridge.
After four decades of featured background singing with icons like Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner and Nine Inch Nails, MS. LISA FISCHER set out to take center stage with her own humble, heartfelt song. The 2013 Best Documentary Oscar winning film Twenty Feet from Stardom altered the course of Lisa’s musical journey, telling her story, with clips of her legendary duets with Sting or with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter," left audiences eager to see and hear more, so Lisa took the chance to set out on her own reinventing classic songs with her co-conspirators JC Maillard and Grand Baton. Their organic fusion of Caribbean psychedelic soul and jazzy progressive rock ignited Lisa’s flexibility and freedom of expression, awakening her lifelong desire to make music that heals but still rocks the house.
While Lisa’s range is legendary, her greatest gift is the ability to connect, to reach the hearts of her listeners.
Raised in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, she emerged from New York’s fervent studio scene in the early 1980s, sang for two decades with legendary vocalist Luther Vandross, and released “So Intense”, earning her first Best R&B Performance Grammy® with “How Can I Ease The Pain." She then joined the Rolling Stones for their 1989 Steel Wheels tour, and continued to grace their stage for the next 26 years.
Lisa’s passion for constant growth and experimentation with different styles invited recent collaborations with jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Michael McDonald, Eric Krasno, Talib Kweli, Billy Childs and YoYo Ma, the BBC Proms / Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Anna Deavere Smith’s “Notes from the Field” for HBO, and especially her full evening program, The Classic Lisa Fischer with Grand Baton and Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and the National Philharmonic. With spiritual truth-telling as her compass and loving kindness as her guide, MS. LISA FISCHER continues her creative journey; destination unknown.
“Lisa Fischer in concert is addictive. Every performance is so enriching, so exciting, so transcendent that you want more. With remarkable vocal range and vocabulary, Fischer can sing soul, jazz, rock, gospel, pop, folk and classical with equal facility and authority. She often mixes styles in the same song, sometimes in the same vocal line. Her approach tends to be intimate, artful and almost meditative, accompanied by her interpretive dancing, but she also can cut loose and funk with fierceness and rock with abandon,” stated The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
COVID rules: Patrons must show proof of full vaccination to attend a show at Scullers Jazz Club.
