Join one of Nashville's favorite shows Wendy Burns Music's Ladies of Jazz Show. Wendy Burns Music's LADIES OF JAZZ SHOW... "It's a Nashville Show to See". Featuring an exciting lineup of talent, Rudy's Jazz Room's "Ladies of Jazz" showcase presents Nashville's favorite female vocalists collaborating together, displaying a variety of original and distinct vocal talent, backed by some of Nashville's best and well known musicians.
Wendy Burns
Creator and producer of The Ladies Of Jazz Show, a multi year running show at Rudy's Jazz Room.
2024 NIMA Award winner / 2022 ALM Nash Hall of Fame Inductee / 2023 & '24 Mississippi Awards Best Jazz / 2025 Southern Music Awards nominee.
Flute playing jazz vocalist Wendy Burns of Nashville TN has studied and performed songs from the 1940's Jazz Big Band era since the age of 9 years old. She has been described as having a unique voice that fits the era. She has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and has sessioned and performed with many of the Nashville classic country greats. With a deep passion for jazz standards.
Wendy believes there's beauty in staying true to the melodies as they were written. Her set list includes songs from the "Great American Songbook", jazz standards, and a number of her fabulous original pieces that reminisce of cherished jazz classics you've never heard. Wendy's influences are Judy Garland, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrew Sisters, and Helen Forrest, to name a few. You will also hear some of her original tunes in vaudeville fashion featuring "Grover" her ukulele.
"She expertly delivers jazz vocals in traditional speakeasy style and displays her exceptional talent on flute as well. She does an excellent job, a true entertainer, she holds her audience and has them laughing with her patter between songs." - Gary Cobb, Nashville Tn
"When singing the classics, I've always tried to sing the melodies as close to the original version as possible. I feel you can get closest to the composer's feelings by doing that and by staying within it that realm. To think that someone in a time long ago did their best to put their feelings and words of love on a sheet of paper so that generations ahead would hear it just as it was written is a golden key to a door of a time before that we all need to experience" - Wendy Burns
Roz Clark-Thompson
Critics have been free with accolades for this sensational jazz singer. "A gusty songstress loaded with soul, savvy and style" says Frank Lieberman of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. The Hollywood Reporter called her "a real stunner, an amazingly versatile talent". She performed the Tony Award winning role of "Aunt Em and Glenda the Good Witch of The South", in the Broadway Musical "The Wiz". She's toured the world with legends, like Olivia Newton-John, Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. While opening for various comedians like the Smothers Brothers and Bob Newhart, she also appeared in television performances with Burt Bacharach, Marvin Hamlisch, in addition to several performances on The Johnny Carson Show. Roz a former Warner Bros recording artist has also sung backgrounds with artists CeCe Winans, Donna Summer and Carmen. Don't miss this extraordinary songstress with a powerful set of pipes sing classic jazz standards like "My Funny Valentine", "Round Midnight" and "I'm A Woman".
