Elly Wright

b. Austria. Performing since youth, Wright has generated a considerable pursuing around Vienna. She’s also toured throughout Austria, occasionally working with regional musicians such as for example pianist-composer-arranger Erwin Schmidt and guitarist Christian Havel. She’s also caused Rolf Ericson and Ed Thigpen, both of whom made an appearance on 1994’s AN ENVIRONMENT OF MY VERY OWN. Wright’s singing design is usually sleekly professional and she builds her repertoire from an interesting blend of requirements, jazz items by Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck among others, compositions by her regular affiliates along with a sprinkling of tunes that she herself offers created either the music, the lyrics, or both.