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Deanna Witkowski

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Known for her adventurous, engaging music that heals the soul, pianist-composer-vocalist Deanna Witkowski moves with remarkable ease between Brazilian, jazz, classical, and sacred music. The award-winning bandleader releases her seventh recording, Force of Nature (MCG Jazz) in January 2022, a companion piece to her biography, Mary Lou Williams: Music For The Soul (Liturgical Press), published in September 2021. Witkowski’s explosive performances combine virtuosity and heart, telling stories that reveal her innate curiosity of the human condition. She has recorded with Grammy nominees John Patitucci, Kate McGarry, and Donny McCaslin, and has performed and toured with renowned vocalists Lizz Wright, Nnenna Freelon, Erin Bode, Filó Machado, an ...more

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Deanna’s Quotes

“Jazz arises from a spirit of love, it comes from the mind and heart and goes through the fingertips." -Mary Lou Williams, quoted in
“Jazz Is Really Spiritual Music,”
Pittsburgh Catholic (February 23, 1973)”
― Mary Lou Williams

tags: jazz, spirituality

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