Page 10 Portland Observer February 2S, 1981
Dick Bogle
Big things are happening fo r
lo n g tim e
P o rtla n d
n ig h tc lu b
favorite Shirley Nanette and it looks
as though some even bigger things
may be just down the road.
The big things began like this. It
was during the fa ll o f last year and
Shirley was singing at one o f P o rt­
la n d ’ s few jazz clubs, the Jazz
Quarry.
P io r to this engagem ent, she
struck up a frie n d s h ip w ith jazz
m usician Ray Spurgeon whose
frie n d , Norm an Leyden conducts
the Oregon Sym phony d u rin g its
pop concerts.
Spurgeon to ld Lyden a ll about
Shirley and one night while Shirley
was ta n ta lizin g the Q u arry crow d
in walks Leyden. The man must o f
like d what he heard because it
wasn’ t long before S hirley began
rehearsing w ith the Symphony pre­
paring for her February debut with
them.
Her perform ance drew rave re­
views fro m the loca l m edia and
soon plans were made fo r Shirley
to sing w ith the Seattle Symphony
and more plans called fo r a m id ­
summer concert w ith the Chicago
S ym phony. Leyden w ill be con­
ducting each o f her performances.
Shirley says her experience was
scary but easy.
"T h is is what I ’ ve really wanted
and I ’ m sure I have quite a bit to
learn,” she said.
When asked how singing in front
o f a large symphony differed from
singing w ith a tr io , quartet or big
band, Shirley said, " Y o u have to
sing where it fits within the structure
o f the orchestra and the way the
music is centered around the
vocalist is a lo t d iffe re n t because
the strings are doing one thing and
the horns som ething else but that
gives you clues on what you d o.”
Shirley’ s career d id n ’ t just begin
that n ig ht in the Q u a rry . She
remembers her firs t interest in
singing began when she was just five
years old when she was captivated
by opera performances on television
and radio. O f course there was the
usual school program appearances
at E lio t grade school and later at
high school but it was in Albina area
clubs that Shirley’ s interest began to
translate into a style.
She recalls singing w ith Richard
Parker and Lloyd Allen at the Elks
C lu b at N o rth W illia m s and
Tillam ook. Then she knew only two
songs, Ike and T in a T u rn e r’ s ' 7
Idolize Y o u " and Etta James " A ll /
Could Do Was Cry. "
Not long after she worked with a
singer who is no longer in Portland,
I.a n ny H u n t. W ith H u n t, S hirley
cut a single and appeared at the old
C iv ic A u d ito riu m along w ith the
Four Seasons.
S h irle y went in to the P ic a d illy
room at the Benson Hotel w ith the
late jazz pianist Jack H ow e ll and
bassist Jack M urph y. Shirely says
her seven m onth engagement there
is the longest anyone has ever played
at the Benson.
I asked S h irle y how she w o u ld
label her style o f singing and a fte r
declaring she wasn’ t a jazz singer, a
soul singer nor a pop singer, she said
“ I ’ m just a singer that tries to f ill
what people need."
S hirley adm ires a lo t o f singers
fo r certain qualities. For example,
Nancy W ilson and Carmen McRae
fo r the way they phrase; Sarah
Vaughn fo r her range; D ina h
W ashington fo r her in tim a te style
and Lena H o rn e ’ s sassiness. She
also says her m o th e r, E lla Mae
Brown, was an im portant influence
on her singing. She recalls singing
duets as a c h ild w ith her m o th e r,
w ho used to sing p ro fe s s io n a lly
some time ago.
As to her future, tw o main goals
are in Shirley’ s mind. One is to go in
the studio and record w ith a large
orchestra w ith a lot o f vio lin s and
the other is to do more concerts.
So, Shirley may just be shedding
her nightclub cocoon and preparing
for to be a star butterfly on the con­
cert stage.
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