Cheryl Hodge
Cheryl Hodge has been in the music and songwriting business for well over 30 years; recording on several labels; among them Atco Records (Raindogs, 1990), and has released 4 CDs of her own; on her own label: Jazzboulevard.com Records.
She has performed her music for the last 10 years with noted jazz guitarist John Stowell (amongst many others), and they are about to release a CD of co-written originals. She has been private instructor to many; including the gifted Paula Cole. She is also the author of “A Singer’s Guide to the Well-Trained and Powerful Voice”, and is a published vocal arranger.
Cheryl is currently the head of the vocal dept. at Nelson, BC’s: Selkirk College Music Program. There, she teaches Songwriting and Advanced Songwriting, Business of Music, Arranging and Vocals.
She continues to write and produce her original materials, and has just released “Cheryl Hodge: Original Article” – a compilation of her favourites.
For more info, visit:
Jazz and Blues Artist Cheryl Hodge – Facebook Page
Every working musician carries three different relationships with instruments at once, and most of us never separate them out. There are the ones you play — where you’ve lived in the instrument long enough that technique gets out of the way. There are the ones you fake — where, given retakes and the forgiveness of a DAW, you can get a part down that holds up in a mix, even though you’d be exposed inside eight bars live. And there are the ones you understand well enough to write for — instruments you may never touch, but you know the idiom, the register breaks, the voicings a player would actually choose. The third category is the one most of us underrate. It’s also the one that quietly separates a workable arrangement from a great one.
