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“Ada’s excellent work with pianist Jamieson Trotter on this October, 2020 release is intimate and flawless through and through."
— Contemporary Fusion Reviews
“A real tour de force where the two talents give each other room to really shine and bring it all home in a velvet jewel box. Top shelf.”
— Midwest Records
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BIOGRAPHY
A native of Sudbury, Mass., Ada Bird Wolfe grew up listening to the music of the jazz greats. Her first music lessons took place when she was just five years old. In a short succession of years, Wolfe was able to competently play piano, guitar, saxophone, cello and flute before she graduated high school.
For college, Wolfe left New England to attend the University of Chicago. She earned a degree in Philosophical Psychology, but after graduating college, she headed to Los Angeles to pursue her performance dreams in the fields of singing, acting and dancing.
As so often happens, real-life got in the way. Wolfe’s help was needed to stabilize the family finances, and she sought a “real” job to assist.
When Wolfe was able to escape from her 9-to-5 life, she immersed herself in writing. After successfully writing novels, poetry, and articles for small newspapers, in 2010, Wolfe found her way back to music.
Wolfe’s first opportunities to sing jazz presented themselves in Los Angeles. She sang during open mic nights at the now-defunct Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill. In a short span of time, she began performing at a variety of clubs, and performed regularly at an intimate night club in West Hollywood called The Gardenia. She also performed regularly at Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City and the now closed Bar Fedora in Downtown Los Angeles.
In addition to sets in clubs and restaurants, she has created a number of major shows: The French Show, Vol 1, Jazzography, Chanteuse, Soliloquy and Blues-A-Licious.
In 2015 she created Giant Shoulders, a multi-show series exploring jazz musicians and composers, which so far has included: Monk-O-Sphere, And the Word Was Mingus, and The Saint and the Sinner Man: Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
Her debut CD Birdie, won critical praise including “Best Releases of 2018” from C. Michael Bailey at All About Jazz. Her followup album He and Me was released October 2020 and was also named “Best Releases of 2020” by C. Michael Bailey at All About Jazz. Her third album, Odd Bird, showcases all original material written by Wolfe and her frequent writing partner Jamieson Trotter. It was released July 15, 2022.