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Linda Solotaire

Linda Solotaire

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4.93 
(11 reviews)
  • Chicago, IL
  • Jazz Band
  • Travels up to 200 miles
  • $300 - $3,200
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Overview

Linda Solotaire is a vocalist & bandleader. Classically trained in music and theatre, she is most deeply influenced by Diana Krall, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone. While the Great American Songbook is at the heart of her repertoire, she strives to infuse her straight-ahead jazz sets with more obscure, contemporary and original songs.

Currently, Linda is working on a collection of new arrangements of songs by Thelonious Monk, as well as "Songs of Love & Hate" featuring works by Leonard Cohen. You can also book her for her Johnny Mercer show, "Dreams of You" and her "Speakeasy Show."


11 Reviews

Small thumbnail image for reviewer Dan S.
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Dan S. • January 27, 2020

Above and Beyond! Linda & Her Band Were Great!

I recently hosted a large 1920's party with friends and family and Linda and her band were the talk of the event. She was lively, energetic, a great singer, and a great MC. She had a very calm demeanor while I was running around in 10 places trying to get everything ready. They made it very easy for me and respected the space, the timelines, and everything else. I will definitely recommend them to individuals that need a great band for their events.

Hired as:
Jazz Band
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Hsueh Y. • January 17, 2020

Beautiful voice and easy to work with

We had a blast! Linda and her crew gave us an amazing performance! Beautiful voice and great energy. We love her.

Hired as:
1920s Era Entertainment, Jazz Singer, Jazz Band
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Response from Linda Solotaire:

Thank YOU! We had a terrific time playing for you and your company! A GREAT PARTY!! We look forward to playing for you again soon!
xx
Linda & the Boyz

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Cherie S. • June 21, 2018

Linda was great

Very personable and beautiful voice
We needed someone just like linda in an intimate setting with my closest friends and family

Hired as:
Jazz Singer
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Response from Linda Solotaire:

Thank you Cherie! And Happy Birthday again. It was a delight to share it with you, your friends and family!

Small thumbnail image for reviewer Chuck K.
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Chuck K. • July 3, 2015

Lively and Vibrant

Ms. Solotaire delivers a song with feeling and nuance... a polished professional who's coolly competent and utterly delightful

Hired as:
Cabaret Entertainment
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Response from Linda Solotaire:

Chuck, thank you. We just loved performing for you. :) Linda

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Richard W. • June 30, 2015

Great Jazz Sung By A Beautiful Woman

Marion Street Grill is a great place to have a drink, eat, and hear great Jazz sung by a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice. Make sure you go on Thursday night when Linda Solotaire is performing.

Hired as:
Jazz Band, Jazz Singer
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Response from Linda Solotaire:

Thank you Richard. It's always a pleasure to sing to such an appreciative audience. :)

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Amanda P. • June 30, 2015

Book Her!

I love Linda and more importantly, so do my customers! My business has increased steadily on Linda's night, she is dynamic, versatile, entertaining, and genuine. So happy we found her!

Hired as:
Jazz Band, Jazz Singer
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Response from Linda Solotaire:

Oh Amanda! Thank YOU! We love the Marion Street Market. xxoo Linda and the Boyz

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Zung D. • April 13, 2012

Very engaging and lively with listeners!!!

Great performance and personable..

Hired as:
Jazz Band
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Response from Linda Solotaire:

We always LOVE playing at the Edgewater Beach Cafe! Thank you!

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Cindy B. • April 3, 2012

Absolutely without question we were blown away!

We were totally entranced with Linda's performance the entire evening. The voice of an angel! True showmanship and professional. Not to mention beautiful both inside and out. We can't wait to host another party and have Linda perform again for us our family and friends. Thank you again Linda!

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Joel S. • January 31, 2012

Great show!

I saw Linda and the Cosmopolitans recently at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and loved it! I am no jazz expert, but I knew most of their repertoire. The lovely Linda has a great voice and good rapport with her band. Its a great way to spend an evening whether you are having dinner or an after-dinner drink.

Hired as:
Jazz Singer, Jazz Band
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Jack D. • January 29, 2012

Linda sings from the heart.

"She's a cool, sophisticated, and a gifted performer. Linda sings like an exotic bird and presents her material in the grand tradition of a sultry night club cabaret. Support Linda by enjoying an evening of song and romance. You won't leave before the encore!"

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Anthony N. • January 28, 2012

Standards offered with pathos, sexuality, and grace

Ms. Solotaire serves songs--mostly standards, with some contemporary and new work thrown in (the last which we hope to hear more of)--as if she were serving you a beautiful meal she had made, in which the complements are as luscious as the main dish--while remaining complements. I am writing of the underlying interplay of feeling in the songs, which Ms. Solotaire brings out with her voice, her phrasing, her expressions, her grace at the microphone. When there is happiness in a song, there is also a beautiful sort of loss. When there is loss, the person is still there, somewhere. If you are a child, she is a good fairy; if a man, she is a lover whose longing and desire you could cure if everything were different; if you are a woman, she is offering you the deepest feelings and ironies you could experience. Come just to listen to her over-the-top vulnerable performance of "Come Rain or Come Shine."

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Booking Info

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Price Range: $300 - $3,200

Gig Length: 120 - 300 minutes

Languages: English

Insurance: $100,000 - Event Liability

Unions: AEA

What to Expect

Whether you book Linda Solotaire as a duo or ensemble of any size, you can be sure of warm, friendly, experienced professionals showing up on time, prepared, dressed appropriately and ready to charm your guests.

A typical performance may start with an instrumental. Linda would follow that with a fun light opening song, introduce the band and acknowledge the hosts. The band's set can be crafted to engage the audience, or to fall back - creating an upbeat sonic backdrop for your event. For longer events the ensemble would take a short break about once an hour.

Linda is a trained actress and experienced Emcee - experienced in intimate cabaret performance - and just as comfortable in a huge stadium. Her performances have been critically acclaimed, and the musicians she works with are of the highest caliber. She is adaptable and a quick study, and will do what it takes to make your event a seamless success.

About

Linda Solotaire is a vocalist, bandleader, curator, and teaching artist. Classically trained in music and theatre, she began her career as an actress in the late 1970s. As a vocal artist, she is most deeply influenced by Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Abbey Lincoln, Sheila Jordan, and Judy Garland. While the Great American Songbook is at the heart of her repertoire, she strives to infuse her straight-ahead jazz sets with more obscure, contemporary and original songs.

Currently, Linda is working with her long-time collaborator Stu Greenspan on a collection of new arrangements of songs by Thelonious Monk, as well as a non-jazz project called Songs of Love & Hate with co-leader Chris Bernhardt. Past projects include Dreams of You: the Sun, the Moon, and Johnny Mercer, embracing the world of one of America’s finest lyricists; Phoenix Project strove to re-imagine the songs of Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Marlene Deitrich, and her Speakeasy Show, created specifically for Pete Miller's in Evanston.

Linda studied dance, voice, music, and acting from an early age. She studied acting with William Hickey at HB Studios in NYC, and voice with Typhanie Monique and Carol Loverde in Chicago, among others. She received her BA from Columbia College Chicago. With a background in theory, classical, and 20th-century music, Linda has enjoyed roles in musical theater and in-studio session work, and she has collaborated on original works with artists including conductor/composer Carmen Helena Téllez, playwright/composer Thomas Weber, new music composer Christopher Preissing, NON:op Opera Company, Small Fish Radio, Local Infinities creators Meghan Strell & Charlie Levin, and poet/composer Everette Howe.

Linda was invited to join Actors Equity Association in 1984. Since then, she has had principal roles in scores of theatrical and on-camera projects ranging from Catherine in O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra to Annie in Annie Get Your Gun, from commercial industrial videos and multimedia to surreal collaborative films, and most recently appeared as Board Member on the American TV drama series, Chicago Med. She frequently works as a voice-over talent as well and has performed in a variety of performance situations and venues around the world.

Linda is the founder and artistic director of True Muse Productions, an organization that promoted live performance, in particular, under-exposed music genres. True Muse produced music and other happenings supported music education &held workshops for artists. She has founded multiple not-for-profit arts organizations, and worked as an arts administrator in various roles during her life. Dedicated to the democratization of the arts, Linda teaches music to children, mentors burgeoning artists and works to raise arts awareness whenever possible.

Musicians with whom Linda has performed: Harrison Bankhead, John Beard, Chris Bernhardt, Bret Benteler, Lance Brown, Steve Corley, James Cornolo, Jim Cox, Fred Faller, Tim Fitzpatrick, Pat Flemming, Jim Gailloreto, Lise Gilly, John Goldman, Phill Gratteau, Chris Greene, Stu Greenspan, Stephen Hashimoto, Jeremy Kahn, Geordie Kelly, John William Lauler, Jean-Christophe Leroy, Val Leventhal, Michael Levin, Doug Lofstrom, Bob Lovecchio, Dennis Luxion, Shawn Maxwell, Doug MacDonald, Donovan Mixon, Diana Mosquera, Tommy Muellner, David Onderdonk, Joe Policastro, Abigail Riccards, James Sanders, Zoey Szmulewitz, Benjamin Scholz, Paul Abella, Fred Simon, Steve Strunk, Daniel Tabion, Daniel Thatcher, Leandro Lopez Varady, Chris White and Saalik Ziyad.

Trivia: Linda has performed at the Lake Placid Olympic Arena, in ancient Turkish ruins, and on the deck of a battleship in the Mediterranean Sea

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Services Offered

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Set List

Jazz Standards, Vintage Blues, Original Sings, Broadway & Pop with jazz arrangements including;

Accentuate the Positive

After You've Gone

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Alright Okay

All of Me

All Or Nothing At All

All the Things You Are

Always

Angel Eyes

Anything Goes

As Time Goes By

Ask Me Now

Autumn Leaves

Baby It’s Cold Outside

Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered

Bird Alone

Black Coffee

Blue Christmas

Blue Moon

Blue Skies

Blues In the Night

Bluesette

But Not for Me

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Charade

Chicago
Come rain or Come Shine

Crazy

Cry Me a River

Dance Me to the End Love

Dat Dere

Days of Wine and Roses, The

Do Nothing ’til You Hear From Me

Don’t Get Around Much

Don’t Know Why

Everybody Knows

East of the Sun

Easy Street

Easy to Love

Estate

Everytime We Say Goodbye

Feeling Good

Fly Me to the Moon

For Heaven's Sake

Funny Face

Girl from Ipanema, The

God Bless' the Child

Goin' to Chicago

Guilty

Hallelujah

How Do You Keep the Music Playing

How High the Moon

How Long Has This Been Goin' On

I Get a Kick Out of You

I Got Rhythm

I Remember You

I Thought About You

I Wanna Be Around

If I Were a Bell

I'll Remember April

In My Dreams

It Could Happen to You

It Might As Well Be Spring

It Never Entered My Mind

It's Only a Paper Moon

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

I’ve Got the World On A String

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

I’ve Grown Accustomed to His Face

Ja-Da

Jazz Baby


Joan of Arc


Lady is a Tramp

Lamp Is Low, The

Laura


Like A Lover

Little Tear, A

Love for Sale

Love is Here to Stay

Lover Man

Lucky to Be Me

Lullaby of Birdland

Lush Life

Make You Feel My Love

Makin’ Whoopee

Man I Love, The

Midnight Sun

Misty

Moon River

My Favorite Things

My Funny Valentine

My Man

My Opening Farewell

My Romance

My Shining Hour

Nature Boy

Ne Me Quitte Pas

Nearer

Night & Day

Old Devil Moon

On the Street Where You Live

On the Sunny Side of the Street

Once Upon a Summertime

Over the Rainbow

Peel Me a Grape

Pennies from Heaven

Pick Yourself Up

Pure Imagination

Reflections

River

'Round Midnight
Second Hand Rose

Second Time Around, The

September Song

Send in the Clowns

Since I Fell for You

Sisters of Mercy

So In Love

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

Some Enchanted Evening

Some Other Time

Someone to Watch Over Me

Sophisticated Lady

Speak Low

Spring is Here

Sway

That Old Black Magic

They Can’t Take That Away From Me

Thousand Kisses Deep, A

Three Cigarettes

Trouble in Mind

Twisted

Ugly Beauty /Still We Dream

Very Thought of You, The

Wave

Well You Needn’t

What Are You Doing New Years Eve

What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life

What’ll I Do
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What’s New?

When Sunny Gets Blue

When the Stars Go Blue

Why Don’t You Do Right

Why Was I Born

Wild is the Wind

Willow Weep for Me

Won’t You Charleston With Me

You Don’t know What Love Is

You Got to See Mamma Every Night

You Made Me Want You

You Stepped Out of a Dream

You’d Be Surprised

HOLIDAY REPERTOIRE

As Time Goes By
Auld Lang Syne


Baby It’s Cold Outside

Blue Christmas
Christmas Blues, The

Christmas Song, The

Christmas Waltz, The

Christmastime is Here

Frosty the Snowman

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

I’ll Be Home for Christmas

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

Jingle Bells
Joy to the World
Let It Snow!
My Favorite Things


O Little Town of Bethlehem


Over the Rainbow

Pure Imagination

River


Santa Baby

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Silent Night

Silver Bells

Sleigh Ride

Twelve Days of Christmas
What Are you Doing New Years Eve?
White Christmas

Winter Wonderland

Team

Linda Solotaire Vocalist, Leader
Stu Greenspan Guitar, Bass, Arranger, Composer
John W. Lauler Bass
Chris Bernhardt Bass
Fred Simon Piano
David Onderdonk Guitar
Michael Levin Reeds
Leandro Lopez Varady Piano
Steve Corley Drums
James Sanders Violin

Influences & Inspiration

Diana Krall, Diane Reeves, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Carmen McRae, Judy Garland, Abbey Lincoln & Cécile McLorin Salvant.

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