Natalie Cressman is an American
jazz
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trombonist
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and
vocalist
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.
Career
Cressman was born in San Francisco to jazz musicians Sandy and Jeff Cressman. When her father was part of
Carlos Santana
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's band, she danced onstage with him at Madison Square Garden.
In her early teens she began performing with Afro Cuban, Brazilian, and jazz bands. Cressman graduated from San Francisco's
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.
At the age of eighteen she moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with
Luis Bonilla
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Biography Early life, musical education and influences
Luis Bonilla was born and raised in Eagle Rock, C ...
, Garry Dial,
Laurie Frink
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Frink attended the University of Nebraska (1969-1972) and studied under Jimmy Maxwell (1 ...
, and
Wycliffe Gordon
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. She joined a band led by
Trey Anastasio
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.
She performed with
Nicholas Payton
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's Television Symphony Orchestra and
Peter Apfelbaum's New York Hieroglyphics Ensemble.
In 2012 she played the Apollo Theater as a soloist in Wycliffe Gordon's Jazz a la Carte.
She founded the band Secret Garden.
She has appeared with the bands
Dumpstaphunk
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Origins and background
The quintet's current lineup features Ivan Neville on vocals, B3 and Clav, the double bass attack and soulful voices of Tony Hall (m ...
and
Lettuce
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and has been an artist at large at Bear Creek Music Festival.
References
External links
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Audio interviewInterview at The Sound podcast
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Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Musicians from San Francisco
20th-century births
21st-century American musicians
21st-century American women musicians
21st-century trombonists
American trombonists
Women trombonists