Trish's vocal sound is described as soothing, soulful, clean, sultry and dreamy. Her phrasing and time are impeccable and the music is uplifting and fresh with sprinklings of Soul, Bluesy Jazz, BeBop and Brazilian motifs.
Trish is the creator and former owner of Jazz Jam Cafe an intimate jazz performance venue in Northern California. She also teaches beginning voice training by appointment, for motivated & dedicated vocalists.
Trish grew up listening to all styles of music. At the age of 10, her favorite Country artists were Ray Charles, Roger Miller & Johnny Cash. Her sister
played a lot of R&B & "Motown," especially artists like The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smoky Robinson & Steve Wonder, whose influences opened her up to Soul and Blues. Trish began learning guitar chords and a few melody lines and she started to accompany herself learning folk songs of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt &
Laura Nyro.
Her mother had a satiny Sarah Vaughan style contralto voice and from her she learned concepts like phrasing, timing, lyrical expressions and
improvisation. Her grandmother sang and played the piano and organ by ear. By listening to her grandmother, she began to simulate some piano
voicings and essentially began a study of ear training.
The music of the sixties had a huge impact. She loved artists like, Joplin, Hendrix, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood, Cream, Dave Mason,
Buddy Guy, Tom Waits, Led Zepplin, Velvet Underground, John Mayall, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Bob Seager, Mitch Woods, The Doors,
The Who, & Grand Funk Railroad, etc. Guitar solos from Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, Mick Taylor & Pete Townshend
exploded onto Trisha's musical sensibilities and imprinted her with the drive to begin to memorize solos, almost verbatim.
Moving to the West Coast in the latter 80's introduced Trish to "KJAZ" the premier San Francisco Jazz station. Listening to jazz was extraordinarily
challenging and very compelling and the most musically inspiring to date.
Her brother, Nick, began making audio cassettes for her of compilations of the history of jazz instrumental groups and and vocalist's. She immediately
dug Thelonias Monk & John Coltrane, Etta Jones, Diane Schuur, Horace Silver, Johnny Hartman, Miles Davis, Joe Pass, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Jobim, Jao Gilberto, Wes Montgomery, Bill Evans, etc., etc. From listening and listening and listening to the recordings of these fantastic artists, Trish became madly
passionate about learning jazz and decided to renew her love of singing, which began during adolescence.
Nick also turned her on to the local jazz scene and she began attending San Francisco Bay jam sessions and shows at Yoshi's Jazz House and many other music venues around SF Bay. She attended Jazz Camp West, where she met
and worked with vocal teachers Jay Clayton, Rhiannon and Faith Winthrop. After working with several musicians including; Suzanne Pittson, Bob Rife' and Steve Wolfe, Trish began studying music theory and piano at Santa Rosa Junior College. She trained briefly at the Jazz School in Berkeley with Jenna Maminna and Mimi Fox and studied Speech Level Singing technique with Dave Stroud.
