Jazz Singer Judy Chamberlain Dallas. Los Angeles.

Dallas jazz singer Judy Chamberlain: “A fascinating journey through a century of song.”

An eloquent interpreter of The Great American Songbook, music often first heard on Broadway and in the movies during the Golden Age of American music, native New Yorker Judy Chamberlain — who started singing professionally at the age of 13 — doesn’t use set lists, preferring to stay in the moment.

It helps that, as former Los Angeles Times jazz critic Don Heckman has said, “she knows more songs than anyone who has ever lived.”

Chamberlain sings the best songs ever written, a lovingly curated collection of beloved standards and rarities delivered in lush, modern vintage style. These are the tunes once recorded and performed by artists like Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Judy Garland, Helen Morgan, Billie Holiday, Glen Campbell, Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong, Nancy Sinatra, The Beach Boys and Harry Nilsson…and composed by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Rogers & Hart, Rogers & Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Harold Rome, Hoagy Carmichael, Dietz & Schwartz, Alec Wilder, Steve Allen, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Jules Stein, Oscar Levant, Truman Capote, Gordon Jenkins, Neil Hefti, Cy Coleman, Michel Legrand, Quincy Jones, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Duke Ellington, Papa John Phillips, Paul Anka, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Brian Wilson, The Eagles, Jimmy Webb, John Denver and many others.

They are story songs, swinging songs, happy and sad songs…saloon songs.

Elements of a master class in the history of American popular music are likely to be woven through Judy’s performances.

Judy Chamberlain with
President Reagan

During a thirty-year career in Los Angeles, Chamberlain worked with, performed for and collaborated with many of the musical icons who wrote, arranged and/or recorded the definitive versions of the songs she sings.

As off-site concert producer for an influential FM jazz radio station and artistic director for a significant roster of high-profile performance venues, she was a major force in the continuity of live jazz in Southern California during the 1990’s and 2000’s.

In 2011, Chamberlain relocated to North Texas, where she performs in a variety of settings with local and touring musicians.

Kodak Theater Marquee
A Jazz Salute to Frank Sinatra

“Jazz singer Judy Chamberlain solidly affirms the music’s far-reaching, continuing vitality.” Don Heckman, L.A. Times

“Judy Chamberlain is a singer who’s always a pleasure to hear. In part, because her astonishing repertoire makes every performance a fascinating journey through a century of song. But even more so because she brings such care, authenticity and musicality to everything she touches.” The International Review of Music

“Name a song, and she’ll sing it.” The Dallas Morning News

“Judy Chamberlain is a walking encyclopedia of The Great American Songbook.” Chuck Niles, Pacific Public Radio, Los Angeles

“I LOVE YOU JUDY CHAMBERLAIN!” Jonne-Marie Switzler, Manager/Playboy Jazz Festivals

“You’re just like ‘the Old Man,’ cookie,” guitarist Al Viola

The legendary Al Viola, a renowned guitarist (that’s his mandolin you hear when you’re watching The Godfather movies) who toured and recorded with Frank Sinatra for more than twenty-five years, was fond of comparing Judy to to Mr. Sinatra, whom he affectionately called “the old man.”

“Judy takes care of business and sings the hell out of a tune the way Sinatra did,” said Viola. “She can come out of nowhere and take the pickup on the song and the band is instantly with her because she gives great signals. Like Sinatra, she’s always in the moment and never does anything the same way twice. Her timing and phrasing are impeccable. I love working with her, because I’m never bored.”

“Look at all these people, having the time of their lives,” Viola said to Judy one night from their perch on the bandstand.

“And you were here, cookie.”

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