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Born and raised in Turin, Italy, to music-loving parents, Roberta Gambarini grew up listening to her father's record collection constantly. Her first vocal inspiration was Louis Armstrong, but she soon discovered Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, and Billie Holiday, as well as blues artists like Mahalia Jackson and Bessie Smith. At age 12 she began playing the clarinet, but realizing the versatility and talents of her clear alto, she moved to voice, singing and performing in clubs by the time she was 17. 

In 1998 Gambarini received a scholarship to study for two years at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and soon after arriving she competed, and eventually finished third, in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition behind Teri Thornton and Jane Monheit. Though Gambarini did not receive a recording contract from this accomplishment (unlike Monheit), it did give her enough performing opportunities that she decided to leave Boston and move to New York, where she could focus better on her music and the scene. In 2006, after years of working and becoming a kind of cult favorite in the New York jazz world, though she was still rejected by every label she pitched her album to, Gambarini started Groovin' High in order to release her American debut, Easy to Love. A collection of standards, the record impressed critics enough to garner the singer a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, alongside Diana Krall and Nancy Wilson, among others.

01 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - You Are There.mp3
02 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Then I'll Be Tired Of You.mp3
03 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - People Time.mp3
04 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - When Lights Are Low.mp3
05 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Deep Purple.mp3
06 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Reminiscing.mp3
07 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Suppertime.mp3
08 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Just Squeeze Me.mp3
09 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Something To Live For.mp3
10 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Stardust.mp3
11 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Lush Life.mp3
12 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me.mp3
13 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Come Sunday.mp3
14 - Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - How Are Things In Glocca Morra .mp3