From: Atlanta, GA
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Jazz vocals/ Bebop, Swing, Soul,
Members: “Sweet Lu” Olutosin – Vocals
Bio: (Vocalist, lyricist, composer, educator …
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You’ll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine)
Performance Calendar
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Sat, February 11
PRIVATE EVENT1639 Metropolitan Pkwy SW, Atlanta, GA
- Fri, February 24 – Sat, February 25
PRIVATE EVENT
Valdosta, GA -
Fri, April 28
PRIVATE EVENT
Jonesboro, GA -
Sat, 22 April 22
CD LISTENING PARTY – TBDPending
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Sat, April 29
CD LISTENING PARTYLive Edge, 792 Cascade Ave SW, Atlanta, GA
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Sun, May 28, 1:00pm – 3:50pm
ATL Jazz FestivalPiedmont Park 521 Park Dr NE, Atlanta, GA
- Sat, June 10, 6:00 – 8:00pm
ASA MUSIC’S Summer Jazz Series
w/ West Side Winds Jazz Orchestra
Southwest Arts Center
915 New Hope Road Atlanta, GA -
Sat, June 24, 7:00pm – 11:50pm
MEET ME AT THE CROSSROADS – CD Release ConcertRed Light Cafe, 553 Amsterdam Ave NE, Atlanta, GA
- Fri, Sept 22
TBD PerformanceAtlanta, GA - Sat, Nov 18th
ANNUAL ACFB FUNDRAISER
Location TBD
Past Performances
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May 14, 2016First Congregational ChurchAtlanta Jazz Festival’s – JAZZ VESPERS
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National Sculpture Gardens
Washington, DC Jazz Festival
- June 10, 2015
Kennedy Center – Millenium Stage
Washington, DC Jazz Festival
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
“Sweet Lu” Olutosin is one of the most promising male jazz singers around… He has mixed together aspects of jazz, r&b and such musical role models as Oscar Brown Jr. and Eddie Jefferson to form his own style…”
~ Scott Yanow,
Jazz journalist/historian and author of 11 books including The Jazz Singers
” To call Sweet Lu a griot is an understatement. He is a wise sage imparting age old lessons by deftly infusing our cultural history and family values utilizing a tapestry of blues, gospel and jazz that are pure entertainment from beginning to end…”
~ Carl Anthony,
Jazz historian & curator, Notorious Jazz.com
“…Lu cites the Kevin Mahogany-penned opener, “Still Swingin’”, where he successfully endeavors to “tell the story of how jazz has been beaten up, changed up, and we end it by giving a gospel flavor to inject the feeling of origin in the song,” neatly referencing the “Cross-Roads” theme of this release…”
~ Willard Jenkins
DC-area based journalist, broadcaster, and concerts/festivals curator
“…after the first part in a trio, the pianist presented the special guest, for the first time in Italy, the vocalist Sweet Lu Olutosin. One approach explosives, a mix of soul, blues, mainstream, soloing style vocalese – then added with original (Lyrics) texts – a stage presence that can warm up the audience, a display of medium and low register but then able to surprise with successful forays in the tall one with a clear timbre that recalled the teaching of soul singer James Ingram”.
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