Blues Christmas with Kim Nalley
Nalley is a Bay Area favorite who can bring renewed life to the American songbook standards, but is even better known for putting her own stamp on music by her muses — Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald.
Nalley channels some blues greats on her new CD — including Bessie Smith’s “Sugar in My Bowl” — but also puts a blues spin on more contemporary material, including “Movin’ on Up,” the theme song from TV’s “The Jeffersons.”
Material from the new CD will be center stage on Sunday afternoon, as well, no doubt, as a few selections from her “Christmas Time Is Here.”