Adele Girard Marsala

b. 1913, USA, d. 7 Sept 1993, Denver, Colorado, USA By selecting the harp as her device, Girard severely broken her likelihood of getting taking significantly when she started playing jazz. Even so, she persevered, employed in bands such as for example Harry Sosnick’s before arriving at wider interest as an associate of Joe Marsala’s music group at 52nd Road’s Hickory Home in 1938. That same calendar year Girard and Marsala wedded and continued to try out together through the following 10 years. After Marsala retired from regular executing, Girard continuing her career, today as a single act, also performing and playing piano. She proved helpful in clubs, resorts and casinos in LA and encircling areas, especially the favorite resorts, and in the 70s made an appearance briefly in London using the Festival Theater USC. By dint of her wonderful melodic strategy, a subtle feeling of golf swing, allied to her ideal pitch, she became an capable member of the right small jazz groupings and qualified among the several – of the admittedly few – greatest harpists in jazz.