Jazz singer-pianist Kay Reid to play Ford hall

If You Go

What: Kay Reid concert

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday

Where: Ford Family Recital Hall, 260 W. Federal St., Youngstown

Tickets: Tickets are $28 ($22 for senior citizens; free for YSU faculty, staff and students, as well as students from other schools). Call 330-744-0264 or go to deyorpac.org.

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Jazz singer and pianist Kate Reid will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Ford Family Recital Hall.

A Cuyahoga Falls native, Reid will perform pop and jazz standards, including Broadway and Hollywood tunes, at the concert.

The concert is part of the Pipino performing arts series of Youngstown State University, and is sponsored in part by the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown.

Tickets are $28 ($22 for senior citizens, free for all students and YSU faculty and staff). Call 330-744-0264 or go to deyorpac.org.

Reid will also deliver a free master class, which is open to the public, at 4 p.m. Thursday in Spotlight Theater, which is on the lower level of Bliss Hall, on the YSU campus.

A professor of jazz voice at the University of Miami, Reid appears as a duo and with her trio and quartet at jazz venues in the Los Angeles and Miami areas, and also performs with Miami pianists Martin Bejerano and Tal Cohen, guitarist John Hart, and trumpet player John Daversa and his Progressive Big Band.

She is a featured performer in the Miami Jazz Co-op, and has worked with many of the great jazz musicians in southern California.

Her latest CD, “The Love I’m In,” has received extensive airplay on jazz radio stations.

Reid has worked with many noted artists including John Clayton, Robin Eubanks, Jon Hendricks, Grady Tate, Mercer Ellington, Don Shelton, Mark Murphy and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. She is also a studio singer in Los Angeles. Her film credits include “Tinkerbell,” “Star Trek: Into Darkness,” “Oz, The Great and Powerful” and “Men In Black III.”

Reid has lent her voice to network television series, as well, and also commercial spots for Ace Hardware and T-Mobile, and to musical artists Muse and Josh Groban.

Remaining shows in the Pipino series include the musical “Into the Woods,” April 12 and 14, in Ford Theater, on the YSU campus; and David Krakauer and Ancestral Grove, April 27 at Ford Family Recital Hall. For tickets, call 330-941-3105 for “Into the Woods” and 330-744-0264 for Krakauer.