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Terry Blaine, Mark Shane & Allan Vache
Biography
Graduating summa c*m laude from the State University of New York (Buffalo) with a degree in classical flute and music and where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Terry Blaine has taken a roundabout route to jazz. The 1970s saw her performing with Top 40 bands and doing studio work in and around New York City before she went off on a world tour as a backup singer for pop group Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. Blaine reports that you haven't lived as a stage performer until you've heard 10,000 fans singing right back at you one of Valli's biggest hits, "Big Girls Don't Cry-Yi-Yi." Her move toward jazz came in the mid-'80s when she met and started working with pianist Mark Shane. They shared the stage at several top venues in the New York City area, including Café Society, a gig lasting fours years, until 1991. Her first CD, Whose Honey Are You?, followed in 1993 and was tapped as a Jazz Journal International Record of the Year. Her second CD, Terry Blaine in Concert, is a recording of her 1994 concert in Cleveland. Building on those successful undertakings, Blaine performed at jazz festivals, on jazz cruises, was featured with her group at New York's Fat Tuesdays, and worked with Shane and guitarist Frank Vignola in an Irving Berlin songbook revue.
Selected Discography