Chris McNulty

{{Short description|Australian and American jazz vocalist}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} '''Chris McNulty''' (born 1953) is an Australian and American jazz vocalist. She was based in New York City for many years before returning to live in Australia in 2015.<ref>[https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/christ-mcnulty/ "Chris McNulty"],''All About Jazz''.</ref><ref>''Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' in 6 volumes, 2nd ed. 1995, Enfield Guinness Publishing, Ltd., Vol. 4, p. 2648.</ref>

==Life and career== McNulty was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She began her professional career singing in pop bands in hotels and clubs in and around the city. She has toured Australia in pop, funk and R&B bands.<ref name="Yanow">{{cite book |last1=Yanow |first1=Scott |title=The Jazz Singers |date=2008 |publisher=Backbeat |location=Milwaukee, WI |isbn=978-0-87930-825-4 |page=151}}</ref> In 1978 she started a jazz group with Paul Grabowsky.<ref name="Yanow" /> She moved to New York City in 1988, having been awarded an international study grant from the Music Board of the Australia Council.<ref name="Yanow" /><ref name=bc>{{cite web |title=Chris McNulty's Magic Trio Comes to the Healdsburg Jazz Festival |url=http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5933|work=BeyondChron|accessdate=12 December 2012 |date=1 August 2008}}</ref> Two years later, her first American album, ''Waltz for Debbie'', was released. McNulty's vocalisations for Miles Davis's "Blue in Green" became the song's official published lyric (Warner Chapell, 1990).<ref name="Yanow" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://australianjazz.net/2012/02/the-song-that-sings-chris-mcnulty/|title=The song that sings Chris McNulty|date=13 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/chris-mcnulty-a-siren-from-down-under-chris-mcnulty-by-ludwig-vantrikt/|title=Chris McNulty: A Siren From Down Under article @ All About Jazz|first=All About|last=Jazz|date=24 January 2012 |website=All About Jazz}}</ref>

She has worked with Gary Bartz, Paul Bollenback, John Hicks, Ingrid Jensen, Peter Leitch, Joe Locke, Mulgrew Miller, David "Fathead" Newman, Gary Thomas and Frank Wess.<ref name="Yanow" />

She has performed at Smoke Jazz Club (2002), Jazz Standard (2006, 2007), Sweet Rhythm (2005, 2006, 2007), the Blue Note (2006), Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy's Coca-Cola Club (2007), Kitano (February 2008, 9 June 2010, August 2013), the Bar Next Door (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) and 54 Below (2015). In 2006, she co-produced the first Belize Jazz Festival. From 2003 to 2010, she performed at venues in Russia and Ukraine with Paul Bollenback and Andrei Kondokov's trio. She has toured throughout the UK and Australia.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

As an educator, McNulty has been invited to present clinics and workshops at Monash University (Melbourne), Griffith University (Brisbane), the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA, Perth), the Australian Institute of Music (AIM, Sydney) and the University of South Australia (Adelaide). Her repertoire includes the great jazz standards, modern jazz classics and original compositions.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The encyclopedia of popular music |date=1998 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London New York |isbn=0-333-74134-X |pages=3596–3597 |edition=3rd}}</ref>

After living in the United States since she first went there in 1988, McNulty returned to Australia to live in late 2015.<ref>[https://allaboutjazz.com/musicians/chris-mcnulty/ "Chris McNulty"] ''All About Music''.</ref>

==Awards and honours== Australian Bell Award, Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album, ''The Song That Sings You Here'', 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bellawards.org/index2.php |title=The Bells - the Australian Jazz Awards |accessdate=2013-11-29 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111163142/http://www.bellawards.org/index2.php |archivedate=11 November 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Discography== * ''Waltz for Debbie'' (Discovery, 1990) * ''Time for Love'' (Amosaya, 1996) * ''I Remember You'' (MopTop, 2004) * ''Dance Delicioso'' (Elefant Dreams, 2005) * ''Whispers the Heart'' (Elefant Dreams, 2006) * ''The Song That Sings You Here'' (Challenge, 2012) * ''Eternal'' (Palmetto, 2015)<ref name="AM discog">{{cite web|title=Chris McNulty {{!}} Album Discography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chris-mcnulty-mn0000776046/discography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=14 April 2017}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://www.chrismcnulty.com/ Official website]

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