I

Arts & Entertainment

Fast Forward

Twenty-year-old

West Bloomfield

vocalist Jessica

Palter's jazz

career is.moving

ahead in high gear.

Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News

Jessica Palter:

"Jazz is the most

challenging style

because it's con-

stantly evolving."

essica Palter isn't-old enough to be a customer in any club that serves -
liquor, but she's regularly allowed inside a few anyway. That's because
she's the musical entertainment — mostly performing jazz but with
some pop, blues and R .& B in the mix.
Palter, 20, sings as part of the Jessica Palter Quartet that includes Mike Jellick
on piano, Ben Williams on bass and Nate Winn or Thaddeus Dixon on drums.
She's at Silky's Martini & Music Café in Dearborn on Tuesdays, Mosaic in

j

Fast Forward on page 60

December 15 e 2005

57