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Australian-American jazz vocalist-composer, Chris McNulty moved to the United States in 1988 and has been a fixture on the New York jazz scene for almost three decades. Her seven album releases in the USA have received wide critical acclaim including her latest album, Eternal, a chamber ensemble and jazz quintet collaboration with orchestrator, Steve Newcomb and pianist-arranger, John Di Martino which placed #11 on the 80th DownBeat Readers Poll in 2015 for Album of the Year. McNulty has performed throughout Russia, the UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, Central America and Lebanon including festival appearances at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, Kilkenny Arts Fest (Ireland), Breckon Jazz Fest (Wales), Kharkov Jazz Fest (Ukraine), White Nights Jazz Fest, St Petersburg (Russia) and Petrozavodsk Jazz Fest (Russia) as well as the Perth, Wangaratta and Melbourne International Jazz Festivals in Australia. Among the jazz greats she has performed and recorded with are the late pianists Mulgrew Miller and John Hicks, saxophonists Gary Bartz, Gary Thomas, David Pietro, Frank Wess, Tineke Postma and Joel Frahm, drummers Billy Hart, Matt Wilson, Tony Reedus, Montez Coleman and Marcus Gilmore, Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and her long time colleagues, bassist Ugonna Okegwo and guitarist Paul Bollenback. The American magazine Jazz Times has described her vocalizing as "fearless" and her composing as "peerless." Britain's Jazz Wise magazine describes her as possessing "a voice of serene beauty, striking veracity and compelling emotional fervency.'' In 2013 Chris was the recipient of the Australian Jazz Bell award for the Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album for her album The Song That Sings You Here. Since relocating back to Melbourne in early 2016 she has performed at the Perth International Jazz Festival, Stonnington Jazz Festival and the Wangaratta International Festival of Jazz and Blues and most recently at the invitation of the National Gallery of Victoria and MIJF for their MoMA jazz series. McNulty is currently based in Melbourne and increasingly augments her touring and performance work with teaching and presentations of her VCM workshops and clinics. Vocalist As Complete Musician is McNulty's first educational publication. She continues to tour internationally.

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"With heart and soul, passion and technique, Chris McNulty has answered the question many students have asked of me, 'Darryl, can you teach me how to scat? Improvise? Sing?' This book is a comprehensive stepwise approach that will prove invaluable in the development of today's singers. I have longed for a pedagogy this rich. Brilliantly structured and clearly presented in her sophisticated yet accessible methodology, VCM will be required reading for those students who ask, the few who don't, as well as the ones who are acrobatically riffing and running through a handful of cliched pop melismas. Thank you, Chris. Young singers in search of a voice need this book. You are the compleat musician!" Darryl Tookes, Composer, singer, pianist, educator, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; Purchase College, SUNY "A most concise, well structured, and easy to understand book for all vocalists (and instrumentalists!) who want to become versatile, have more confidence, and be better overall musicians. Chris McNulty's Vocalist As Complete Musician is a comprehensive and engaging method designed to help you hear, sing, and play music on a deeper level. Practicing these exercises WILL really enhance HOW you hear, sing, and play music!" Dena DeRose, Jazz Vocalist and Pianist, Jazz Voice Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria "If Chris McNulty's singing, both live and recorded, is any reflection of her own expertise on the tetrachord method of improvisation, then this book can help you and your students, too! Chris is a world class jazz singer, and this is priceless musical instruction for any singer who wants to infuse their singing with improvisation, whether re-melodizing a song with lyrics, or scat singing. Brava Chris!" Amy London, Jazz Vocalist and Educator. Motema recording artist, Jazz Faculty, New School, City College; Hofstra University; Jazz House, Mannes Prep. "With the publication of Vocalist As Complete Musician: Utilizing Tetrachords, Chris has generously shared the personal methodology that has enabled her to develop a unique style and solid musicianship. If you systematically study this book, which will take time and effort, you can eventually put the materials together in your own way, which is what every great jazz musician has done throughout time. Thank you dear Chris, for giving us the opportunity to expand our ears and mind and to find note choices and colors that we hadn't previously thought of!!!" Suzanne Pittson, Vocalist, Pianist, Educator, Assistant Professor of Jazz Vocal Studies, The City College of New York "Congratulations to Chris McNulty on this fantastic book. An innovative, practical method for vocalists (and other instrumentalists) to develop their improvising skills, from the perspective of a great jazz vocalist." Nick Haywood, Jazz musician, Senior Lecturer, Conservatorium of Music, University of Tasmania "Vocalist as Complete Musician opens singers ears with a fresh new method of ear training, opening up a palette of new note choices, you'll actually "Hear and Use." Practicing licks and scales without using them over a song doesn't stick. Chris McNulty's tetra chord method guides you through a song using all the harmonies you'll ever want to hear!" Roseanna Vitro, Grammy Nominated Jazz Singer, Educator and Journalist

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