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August 16 . 2012

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he Jesse Palter Quartet
returns to the "D" on Aug. 23
to perform at the New Center
Park Alfresco Jazz & Blues Concert
series at 6 p.m. at the park at Second
Avenue and West Grand Boulevard.
The concert is free.
Palter, who "was singing before I
could talk," started performing locally
in West Bloomfield when she was 7
years old, and writing music at 12.
In seventh grade, she was a junior
cantor at Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield and was cast as the nar-
rator of Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat at West
Bloomfield Abbott Middle School. She
was reprimanded for improvising her
opening number during dress rehears-
al, but her teacher pulled her mother
over and said, "Get this girl into jazz"
Her parents, Peggy and Danny
Palter of West Bloomfield, listened.
Palter has staked a claim on the
West Coast music scene when she
moved to Los Angeles over a year ago.
Constantly on the road, she found time
to talk with the Jewish News.

Jewish News: What have you been
up to since you performed here last
year Downtown at Cliff Bells?
Jesse Palter: It has been an exciting
year. I traveled to Israel to headline
the Red Sea Jazz Festival with two
performances in Eilat. I've been writ-
ing a lot of music both for my bands
and for other artists. My band has had
multiple weeklong residencies at the
Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, and we
have performed at venues all over Los
Angeles. Our music has been featured
on Keeping Up With The Kardashians
and The Real World-Las Vegas.
Palter Ego, my pop band, released
multiple EPs (extended play record-
ings), and we are gearing up to release a
covers EP. And I'm so excited to return
to Detroit to play with my quartet.

JN: Do you still have time to com-
pose new music?
JP: Our first album as a group with
Jesse Palter Quartet was released
in 2006, and since then we've done
hundreds of gigs and traveled around
the world as a group, so we've grown
tremendously as a unit and individual
artists. We have several albums' worth

k:

Jesse Palter

of new material and have been work-
ing out how we are going to get back
in the studio, which we are all itching
to do. Mike Jellick, my amazing pianist
and collaborator for upwards of seven
years now, and I coordinate writing
sessions when we can. We will for sure
fit a couple in while I'm in Detroit and
hopefully debut a new tune or two at
the concert.

JN: Talk about Detroit.

JP: I constantly travel back to the
Midwest to perform at jazz clubs and
private events, and I love any excuse
I get to come home and perform in
Detroit. In fact, a large chunk of my
work comes from Detroit and Chicago.
I love being home and playing for a
Detroit crowd.
I've also always been so proud to be
a musician from Motown. It gives you
serious street cred, you know. People
will come up to me after shows and
say, "Where did you learn to sing like
that? And with such soul?" That is the
biggest compliment, really. I always
respond "I'm from Detroit" and people
almost always reply, "That explains it."

JN: What does L.A. offer to jazz
musicians?
JP: There's tons of live music hap-
pening in LA and the lifestyle is con-
ducive to creativity, and it has the best
collection of musicians outside of New
York City. Out in LA, I can do a lot of
writing and it's where the recording
industry is. LI

To hear Palter, go to palterego.com and

http://Facebook.com/palterego.

