Kitty Brazelton is an American

United States

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 vocalist, composer

Composer

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, flutist, and lead singer of the art-rock/alternative rock

Alternative rock

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/avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which ...

 band Dadadah. Brazelton is the daughter of pediatrician and author T. Berry Brazelton

T. Berry Brazelton

Thomas Berry Brazelton is a noted pediatrician and author in the United States. Major hospitals throughout the world use the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale . Many parents know him as the host of a cable television program What Every Baby Knows, and as author of a syndicated...

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Brazelton attended Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

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 and received a doctorate in music from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1994. She was formerly married to jazz critic

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 and president of the Jazz Journalists Association

Jazz Journalists Association

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 Howard Mandel and currently teaches composition at Bennington College

Bennington College

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 in Vermont

Vermont

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At Bennington, Brazelton lent her talents to the singing voice of the character 'Angel' in the student film Camp Blood: The Musical

Camp Blood: The Musical

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Other former Dadadah members include saxophonist Danny Weiss, Tom Varner

Tom Varner

Tom Varner is an American jazz horn player and composer.Varner studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, New Jersey. He holds a B.M...

, Tracy Turner, trombonist Chris Washburne, Elizabeth Panzer, Mary Wooten, Hui Cox on guitar, Chris Tso, Ed Broms, Eunice Holland, bassist Roland S. Wilson and Jim Pugliese

Jim Pugliese

Jim Pugliese is an American percussionist, drummer, composer and international recording artist on over ninety CDs of experimental, jazz and rock music.His performing experience is diverse...

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Albums

• Dadadah (1996). Rise Up!. Accurate Distortion 1003.
• Dadadah (1999). Love Not Love Lust Not Lust. Buzz 76005.
• Kitty Brazelton (2002). Chamber Music for the Inner Ear. CRI Emergency 889.
• Kitty Brazelton and Dafna Naphtali (2003). What Is It Like to Be a Bat?. Tzadik 7707.

External links

• Kitty Brazelton official site
• [ Kitty Brazelton on AllMusicGuide]