Kathryn Taubert: Links

Buy Kathryn's 2008 CD: "Somewhere In Time" JUST RELEASED by D and M Records!: Click on title to order your copy of Kathryn's 2008 CD: "Somewhere In Time," at the D and M Records website, featuring fabulous new arrangements of old standards, with Kathryn's original lyrics to such classics as "Somewhere In Time" and "Clair de Lune", vocal duets, swing, jazz, sambas, and more.
Buy Kathryn's 2007 CD "Where Can I Go Without You?"
Buy Album or Individual tunes at CDBABY.com
Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf Club, Miromar Lakes, Florida: The premier Resort property in Southwest Florida, with it's award winning amenities, including the European-inspired Beach Club House on beautiful Lake Como where Kathryn & The ALLTHATJAZZ Quartet perform regularly.
Miromar Lakes is truly "Where You Want To Be."
Bayshore Coffee Company: Kathryn & The ALLTHATJAZZ Trio performing monthly at this great little jazz venue in Naples, Fl, offering fine food and a real "Jazz Club" atmosphere. Open to the public. Musicians welcome to sit in.
Ricky Howard Guitar: Rick's official website with more of his background, sample tunes, photos. Rick is known as one of the more diverse artists on the scene, his guitar and vocals fitting comfortably and authentically in any musical genre, whether jazz, blues, rock, R&B, Carib, or country. As part of the New York studio ciruit, Rick played on albums with many artists, including Bob Marley, Shania Twain, and Howard Kaylan. He released two albums with his own Latin Group, "IGUAZU," that featured Jazz legends, Paquito D'Rivera and Slide Hampton. He's shared the
stage with Chico Hamilton, Birelli Lagrene, Chuck Berry and the Drifters, to name but a few.
Skip Haynes & The Black Tie Band: The Black Tie Band leader is Skip Haynes, who has extensive musical experience including a stint as the backup band for Pat Boone´s TV Dance Party (1956) and solo performances with the Woody Herman Band (1959). Skip is proficient on soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet, and flute. He also provides vocals. The four piece band provides music and entertainment for many area private and public clubs, dances, weddings and parties in SW Florida. The Band repertoire spans standards, Latin, Dixieland, light jazz and easy rock and each performance is tailored to suit the individual audience.
Buy Claude Rhea's CD "Well Seasoned"
Shelton Studios: Stu Shelton accompanies Kathryn on seven of the ten tunes in her 2007 CD, "Where Can I Go Without You?, also recorded at Shelton Studios. Stu Shelton is a well-known fixture on the Naples, Florida music scene, with his facile piano playing accompanying many of the area's best jazz musicians in a variety of venues. Stu owns and operates his own state of the art recording studio as well, and can be found writing, producing, and even teaching music when not playing a dinner club, private party, or regularly scheduled Jam session for Naples-area Jazz lovers.
Buy Rick Howard's CD "Iguazu-All You Need"
Music Makers Big Show Band: Kathryn does occasional performances with this outstanding "big band" in Naples, Florida in 2008. Music Makers is a group of seasoned musicians whose mission is to keep the best music ever written alive and on stage.
Check out these fine musicians and their performance schedule on their website!
Naples Jazz Lovers: Site of the Expandable Jazz Band ("EJB"). The classic jazz trumpet sounds of EJB member Bob Zottola can be found on Kathryn's 2007 CD, "Where Can I Go Without You? harmonizing in "You Turned the Tables on Me."
Bob spends his time commuting to gigs between New York City and Naples, Florida. Sometimes he's in the spotlight, (he spent 16 years as a member of the troup in Broadway's 'Les Miserables',) but more often he's been a complementary player to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Rosemary Clooney, Chick Corea, to name a few. bob and the "EJB" perform regularly at Jazz Venues in Naples Florida.
Bill Cherry: Bill's referring to himself as piano tuner is tantamount to Einstein suggesting that he "fiddled around a little with numbers." Bill, a published author, radio and tv personality, businessman and musician, was Kathryn's mentor at the beginning, helping secure her first professional gig in 1966 at the Lookout Room in Galveston's exotic Flagship Hotel on the Pier. Bill is a man of many talents, with a vitae in music (among other things) that found him playing some of the most famous 5 star dining rooms thoughout the USA. Bill now lives in Dallas, and performs his piano wizardry only on a part-time basis, but his influence is still very much felt nationwide. And the pianos he tunes are very, very happy.
Bill Cherry vitae: "Einstein" revealed here.
"The Virtuoso", a novel by George P. Walmsley: A new novel by my good friend George P. Walmsley, "The Virtuoso," is a labor of love, taking place in New York, and the Big Easy, New Orleans.
In George's words, "The Virtuoso" is a mainstream contemporary novel laced with the struggles and ambivalence of a young man's desire to be a jazz musician and the forces that move him in another direction - toward the classics. How this dilemma resolves itself and the escapades along the way and beyond will both rouse, yet soothe your quest for escape from the mundane! "The Virtuoso"
is also love story as well as a story with scarlet moments of lust from that oldest story of all - the story of human frailty against the spear of temptation."
Check it out!!
Some of Kathryn's Favorite Charities: Kathryn believes that those who have the ability, time and resources to do so have a willing obligation to "give back." She spends a great deal of her time volunteering in causes from animal welfare, developmental disabilities, the environment, among others. Below are three of her favorite charities, but by no means the only ones she endorses and supports. Profits from the sale of her 2007 CD, "Where Can I Go Without You?" are donated to charity.
Danbury Animal Welfare Society, Inc: The website of a very special group of animals, and people, in southwestern Connecticut. The largest totally volunteer owned and operated animal welfare organization in CT, with a stand-alone shelter and many local programs, Kathryn spent many heartwarming hours socializing abused dogs, and serving as President. She learned that donations to this "no-kill" shelter do precisely what "DAWS" claims they do.
Gulf Coast Charity Swim: Site of the annual event at Miromar Lakes Florida to benefit the Florida Lions Camp for disabled youth. Kathryn, also a long-distance swimmer, chaired the first two events which raised enough money to send 51 disabled children to for a week each. Youth with challenging disabilities have the opportunity to learn life-long skills while having fun just like their enabled peers, in a beautiful camp setting in central Florida in which they are not just "disabled," but merely different, unique, and as capable, in their own ways, as "anyone else."
Doctors Without Borders: An incredible group of clinicians who risk their lives to provide medical care to people in places of which many in the USA have never even heard, much less seen. Treating people without regard to race, nationality, creed, color, or socio-economic status, this organization was also a favorite charity of Kathryn's late husband, Capt. Al Taubert, who, as a Pan American World Airways commercial airline pilot, saw many of those places Doctors Without Borders goes. Al's positive influence on the lives of those around him was profound, enduring, and an example to all who knew him.