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Dana Rogers
Born in Port Arthur, Texas; raised on the West Coast, on the bandstand where her father, Bill Rogers, was bass trombonist and orchestrator/conductor for the Sinatra Family for over 35 years.
While earning regional recognition in Houston and in Las Vegas, Dana worked and recorded for master-mentor, Shelly Berg, past-president of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Upon Berg's recommendation, Dana was recruited and retained by The U. S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, the U. S. military's premiere touring jazz orchestra, who featured her internationally (1992-1999) as their featured vocalist and clinician.
U. S. performance venues have included The Kennedy Center, CNN, Air America Radio; in Las Vegas: Caesars Palace, The Sands, The Frontier and The Four Queens; shows with Frank Sinatra, Jr., Toots Thielemans, Bill Watrous, Carl Fontana, Buddy Childers, Barry Manilow, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet, Nancy Zeltsman, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (playing piccolo on "The Stars and Stripes Forever"), The Four Freshmen and two-time Grammy-winners Floyd Domino and Johnny Gimble.
Dana has managed artist booking for Houston's premiere jazz club, Cezanne; she produced Crabby Daddy, a thriving live music venue in The Woodlands area, and continues to be enriched and educated by the great wealth of talent in the Gulf Coast area.
While earning regional recognition in Houston and in Las Vegas, Dana worked and recorded for master-mentor, Shelly Berg, past-president of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Upon Berg's recommendation, Dana was recruited and retained by The U. S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, the U. S. military's premiere touring jazz orchestra, who featured her internationally (1992-1999) as their featured vocalist and clinician.
U. S. performance venues have included The Kennedy Center, CNN, Air America Radio; in Las Vegas: Caesars Palace, The Sands, The Frontier and The Four Queens; shows with Frank Sinatra, Jr., Toots Thielemans, Bill Watrous, Carl Fontana, Buddy Childers, Barry Manilow, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet, Nancy Zeltsman, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (playing piccolo on "The Stars and Stripes Forever"), The Four Freshmen and two-time Grammy-winners Floyd Domino and Johnny Gimble.
Dana has managed artist booking for Houston's premiere jazz club, Cezanne; she produced Crabby Daddy, a thriving live music venue in The Woodlands area, and continues to be enriched and educated by the great wealth of talent in the Gulf Coast area.
