Sizzling sensuality. Her passionate interpretation of classic jazz tunes about food and wine makes the music good enough to eat.

12 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo

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MARLENA STUDER: Breaking into the business of wine and song

Over the years, I have sung in a number of venues â but it wasnât until I spent ten years in New Orleans that a passion for jazz got into my blood. While doing my âday gigâ as Sociology Professor at Tulane University, I was invited to sing with the big band, Jubilation! and I was hooked. My appetite for performing jazz standards has grown since then, and I've discovered how much I . I have had opportunities to sing with several bands such as the Jazz Barristers, a Washington D.C.-based jazz quartet.

After a move to Michigan in 2001, I took a plunge into entrepreneurship and developed my own wine label, SOLTERRA. Also, I began to pursue my dream of producing my own musical recording. I had the great fortune of joining the Cliff Monear Trio, a terrific jazz trio headed by Cliff Monear, a superbly gifted jazz pianist, along with Nick Calandro (bass) and Scott Kretzer (drums). I poured my heart into my first CD (2004), âCrazy He Calls Meâ striving to make the words count and the moods linger in a selection of timeless tunes that I am "crazy" about. Then, I went on to produce "Sip It Slowly", a collection of tunes expressing my hunger for passion through lyrics that lust after food and wine.