Six Count

Jazz vocalist Angela Bingham on storytelling through music, performing little-known lyrics, and creating intimacy with audiences

Episode Summary

Angela Bingham is a jazz vocalist, voiceover actress, and podcast co-host. Angela has lived in North Carolina since 2011, performing regularly at the Pimiento Tea Room in Holly Springs, the Umstead Hotel and Bond Brothers Eastside in Cary, and the O.Henry Hotel in Greensboro, to name a few. You can catch her next at the Sharp 9 Gallery in Durham with the Jim Ketch Quintet on Friday, June 9. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she studied jazz under Roger Letson at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. The vocalist launched her professional jazz career in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the late nineties.

Episode Notes

Angela Bingham is a jazz vocalist, voiceover actress, and podcast co-host. 

You can catch her next with the Jim Ketch Quintet on Friday, June 9, at the Sharp 9 Gallery in Durham. The show, entitled “There’s Lyrics for That,” will feature songs by Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Jon Hendricks, and Thelonious Monk, among others. Buy tickets.

Who’s on:

*Previous Six Count guest

This summer, Angela is leading jazz vocal performance workshops through the Durham Jazz Workshop (housed at the Sharp 9). The next workshop begins July 31. She also teaches private lessons for students and adults.

More about Angela 

Angela has lived in North Carolina since 2011, performing regularly at the Pimiento Tea Room in Holly Springs, the Umstead Hotel and Bond Brothers Eastside in Cary, and the O.Henry Hotel in Greensboro, to name a few. 

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she studied jazz under Roger Letson at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. The vocalist launched her professional jazz career in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the late nineties.

Outside of music, Angela is a voiceover artist specializing in e-learning, corporate narration, and commercial projects. A movie buff, she also co-hosts the movie-focused podcast Put Your Books Down with Natalie Sanderson. 

Music credit

This episode features the songs “Honeysuckle Rose” and “P.S. I Love You,” from the album The Night We Called It a Day, by Angela Bingham and David Halliday (2016), used by Six Count with permission from the artist. 

This season features the songs “Forged in Rhythm” and “Callous & Kind” by Keenan McKenzie & The Riffers (2017), used by Six Count with permission from the artist. 

How to listen

You can find Six Count on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other listening app! The series also airs on taintradio.org, an online jazz radio station based in North Carolina, on Sundays at 6:00 p.m. and Fridays at 8:00 p.m. EST. 

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